As our current roster stands, we aren’t winning a national title next year. I watched EJ and Nick enough to know that. PJ and Reid are gone. We were awful when they were out of the game this year. We lost about 80-90% of our scoring from last year. Return 1 starter. 1. I don’t understand the rationale about downing our fans because they want to add a few more players. That’s just being a fan.
We will likely be far better next year. If you think EJ and Nick are awful, obviosuly you don't know very much about basketball. Both have tons of ability and have demonstrated it. It's simply mental and maturity for both at this point. I watched them play together several times this season and liked a lot of what I saw.
Maxey could easily better than Herro. Whitney can be as good if not better than KJ.
We relied very heavily on PJ the last 2 years and we saw what it looked like without him. This team will have way more balance, which will take time to develop, but that is great in the long run.
We will have 6 veteran players, maybe a 7th if we add another transfer. And all of them played a good amount. That is incredible.
You add in development and improvement we always see and I think we have a great shot.