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[QUOTE="maxxyz, post: 2677735, member: 350"]
I think every player feels they should play in games.  I'm not talking about starting, but just playing time.  Depth is important, but so is team morale.  JB doesn't play past nine deep.  Its hard to see what the advantage it is to have a 14th scholarship player (likely not Top 100) except as another body at practice.  Is that what a D1 athlete wants to be?  A glorified walk on?

Would Tyler Bertram have come to SU to sit behind Carey, Hughes, Washington, Goodine, and the other guards that we will recruit in 2020?  We lose players regularly that transfer because they feel they don't get playing time.  Rumors of Howard Washington being unhappy abound.  Would Dolezaj have come to SU without the thin roster and potential playing time?

Osunnyi is an example of a recruit we lost because of little available playing time at the 5.  With Chukwu and Sidibe (and likely Marek as well) ahead of him it would have been at least a year of zero minutes.  So he went to St. Bonaventure for pete's sake.

We are set for this year with eleven.  Buddy & Howard Washington are our two guards we are "taking a flyer" on.  Braswell also.  We will likely have Hughes, Carey, Marek, Sidibe and maybe Brissett next year.  We need to sign two guards, two forwards and a center and that's it.  We need 8 players ready to play, with 3 more getting experience for next year, and a smart walk on to help the team GPA.  Because that's how JB runs his team in 90% of the seasons, and more is not necessarily better.
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