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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5352421, member: 722"]
Without knowing what Red and his staff knew, and when they know it, we can't really backtrack their decision making.

They were watching Mintz and Westry in practice every day... Whatever you think of Mintz, he's a very good player, and we had heard Westry was playing him even in practice.

If they decided to roll the dice on Westry being healthy, after months of watching him practice, with Leffew and Carlos as backups, you can't argue against it.  Missing on Leffew was a big miss? No doubt. But if they thought they'd get a Westry that could compete effectively against Mintz, you can understand their lack of urgency.

Nobody knew Westry was going to get sick, so he can't even play at all this season.

It's not like Red is going to do a post mortem with us explaining his decision making, when he knew what he knew, etc.  We, as fans, are just speculating.

And we're pissed off at the lousy season, so we're not exactly going to give Red the benefit of the doubt.

Unless we hear from true insiders of the program that Westry was never an option, going back to the end of last season, I'm going to work on the assumption that Westry was considered a player this season. Westry being out for the season had a significant impact we couldn't have anticipated when roster decisions were being made in April last year. You can't judge decision making with only hindsight.
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