Originally Posted by springborofan
The 13th player on your bench will not factor in whether you are going to win or lose. If he does, then you've already failed as a coach because you didn't recruit players high enough to be in the top 8 or 9 that have separated themselves from the rest of the pack. That still leaves room for a specialist a couple of development players and maybe a transfer...
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No...but if that 13th player is a freshman, they very well may be a 6th man by their junior year....RH won't get to that point.
If AM did tell him he wouldn't sniff the floor this year, then he was being honest and allowing RH to play ball elsewhere instead of being a practice player for the rest of his career.
Someone questioned why this was happening 6 weeks after the season. For all we know, AM could have given RH goals to meet before the summer break and RH may have not attained those goals. I am not stating this as fact, I am just stating what I remember as some of the offseason conversations that some of my college teammates were a part of back in the day.
We don't have any facts on the whole deal, but to paint a complete picture one way doesn't do anyone justice. Whatever comes of this, if decisions were made to improve the product on the floor and the end results, I am for it.