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[QUOTE="RedtheGOB, post: 5010800, member: 8907"]
There’s millions of dollars involved with these decisions and the consequences could last years for the program.

People act like it’s just so easy to just nip these things and all will be good.  Or predict what young kids will respond and which won’t. This ain’t a McDonalds where 19 year old kids are making minimum wage and you tell them just not to show back up. These kids became highly paid pro athletes at very young ages and that isn’t always a great combination.

Let’s just play out the tough love approach some want to see.  The punishment would have to be Judah or Q or even Bell sitting games and then ultimately leaving the program pissed.  Multiple Suspensions or benchings this year could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in future NIL. That’s a big black eye on their resume.

Then you have let’s call them the good apples like Brown or JJ or even Taylor left even with less depth to get their asses kicked up and down the court for 40 mins.

Now all the sudden you have the class of ‘25 recruits that were looking to visit Cuse for a game seeing the best players on the team sitting the bench and wondering what’s going on.

Lastly the casual fans that aren’t so much interested in the things you guys are and they just want to see Cuse win and their favorite player play ie Judah or Q.

The whole ship starts to sink.

Autry may be right and these 20 year olds may be wrong but sometimes the best thing to do is survive the season and then clean house with players leaving mutually and happy.

Autry is responsible for this roster and my guess is managing them this year took some years off his life due to stress. I personally can’t wait to see what next years team does and who’s on it.
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