Bryce is leaving :-(

I sure hope this transfer thing is a one year covid blip.

My enjoyment factor of KU hoops dipped quite a bit once we started down the one and done route. I just didn't care about the players who left before I could ever get to know them.

This transfer thing is worse for me. I have very little interest in grad transfers or other inbound transfers who might be here short term.

Maybe the exodus is sanction related?? And Bryce wants one more year of college at a place that isn't on probation? If so, I don't blame him at all. That, and he didn't get much playing time at all (injuries notwithstanding) even with other players who weren't getting it done offensively the entire season.

With all of the departures it make me wonder what the locker room was really like. How could there have been a cohesive unit from this bunch?

My other thought is that Self admitted that recruiting was down. Are these departures reactions to his comments or did they see the handwriting on the wall with the upgrades coming in?

We will likely never know.

It will be a big job developing all of these new bodies and minds into the Self system. HCBS has his work cut out for him.

Muscadin, Jossell, Enaruna, and Grant-Foster were not only not surprising but anticipated. Thompson was a bit of a shocker. I realize it is all noise but good grief, KU sports seems to be in total chaos when even the basketball team seems to be engulfed in such uncertainty. I sort of channel AZ in that I struggle to get too excited about inbound transferees. I mean, we have all known the college sports is becoming more and more mercenary and "all about me" for some time. But we have been able to mostly ignore it with the constant refrains of "student-athlete" and the like. But the genie seems to officially be out of the bottle. College sports is now just pro sports dressed up with school colors. It makes it more and more difficult to have the same zeal.

His comment to the paper was last season was just too stressful.

First comments from fans was he was being weak.

I have kids slightly older than him, and several who play high level college sports. They're still just kids, and last year was incredibly stressful for them. Being in a constant bubble, not having a normal college life, being on campus when no other students were there, testing every day, playing thru injury, etc. was a lot for any kid to handle.

I don't question any young person - 5 Start athlete or otherwise - who struggled this past year. I wish him the Best of luck in a new environment.