Miller and Payne GON

[Darth_Shiveman]

The problem is that many seem to want it both ways. They want to say the departure of guys with experience and development doesn't matter while preserving the excuse that youth could become or will be a problem in '15.

If playing Fr could tank the Vols in '15 then losing the players who are leaving is a very, very big deal.... not something that should just be handwaved like so many are doing.

If you look big picture though, getting rid of some non-contributors and non-producers (which all the transfers besides arguably Hendrix and Helm seem to be) will actually stop this cycle from perpetuating. 32 is a huge class. If all of those guys had stayed 3-5 years, then you're looking at having to rely on another huge freshman class for production.

Cutting down on some of those guys and being able to sign a full recruiting class in 2015 (as opposed to the 16 we'd be able to sign if we'd kept everybody) will actually help level off our scholarship distribution more quickly. We' need to get back to taking 20-25 every year to have an even scholarship distribution and not have to rely heavily on newcomers each year. Cutting some chaff will help with that.

This year we depended heavily on first and second year players to start. Next season we'll be relying first year players mostly for depth. That's a steady improvement.


All that being said, losing Hendrix really hurts. He's the one guy we lost who I think really could have been big time. Miller and Payne are pretty much depth players at this point.

 

[daniel3417]

Why is miller transferring? He actually played?

Bad.