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Message: [QUOTE="Sbucketball, post: 4984759, member: 8555"] Full disclosure obviously I feel differently about players coming in instead of out, which I guess is hypocritical but that's being a fan. But also let's look at the key difference between who we've gotten and who we've lost the last few years, and it objectively seems like we're getting burned and the guys we receive aren't burning anyone: our Transfers: -Starling - coach fired and whole team left -Cuffe - buried on the bench at the best program in the sport and never likely to play much -Westry - injured and barely played last year and coach screwed up his redshirt by 1 minute PT too much -McLeod - bench piece playing 10 mpg Our transfers last year: -Hima - bench on bad mid major Our transfers the year before that: -Symir - bench piece playing 10 mpg -Cole - bench piece who was limited -Jimmy - coach's son from a mid major taking a step up Now let's look at who we're upset about losing: -potentially Judah - most talented player on team, first player getting even a little draft buzz in a few years, and Day 1 starter with the keys to the offense -potentially Maliq - insiders have posted concerns but not sure if he's actually looking - most important player on the team and a starter -maybe others but outside of Copeland and Westry I won't be upset about anyone else leaving so I won't have this reaction Last year who we were upset about losing: -Jesse - starter, All ACC previous year, best player and would be team leader and featured in offense -Joe - 4 year starter, albeit different circumstances because he would have played less here -no one cared about Bol entering the portal or Symir transferring because they were bench pieces and no one felt burned Prior to that - Frank - bench piece who received lots of coaching criticism so it made sense and while we wanted him to stay we weren't flipping because we understood why he left. That's 3 years so not getting into Guerrier, who was a starter and JB said could be an all american here, and Kadary, who was our best pg but it made sense that he left if he wasn't starting over JG, and the other depth such as braswell etc. who people didn't flip over since they weren't the featured guys here. So the guys we receive aren't burning their program - we're not getting key starters so far. (Not that I wouldn't welcome starters burning their previous program with open arms because I'm a Cuse fan.) But the guys we're losing are starting, getting loads of PT and freedom, and therefore it feels like more of a burn. Of course I'm practical and understand it's now a business decision and we can't expect our players to bleed orange like we do or the old players did, but it sucks adjusting to this. Feels like we're getting burned more than we're burning others. And that's the landscape now so hopefully we respond in kind (disclaimer - I'm not doubting we will, just explaining what I've noticed the last couple years and why my reaction, and other's reactions, are strong). TLDR: I'm sad and want us to be good. [/QUOTE]

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