bdotling
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yes but it is all relative to an environment where team continuity doesn’t exist anymore due to the transfer portal. Perhaps it was overweighted but that plus with how the team felt like it was improving at the end of the previous season felt big. And while we are playing more old men, there’s a counter argument around team chemistry etc when patch working transfers together like that.To add onto that, just because they (Flip, Proctor, Mitchell) were returning players and not freshmen, they were expected to play like upperclassmen. They were very much not that. Because we're so used to guys leaving after one year, I think actually having a bunch of players back warped the expectations a bit. As upperclassmen, I believe all three would continue to improve... I would take any of them back in a heartbeat. We can't both acknowledge that we need an older team and then want our primary guys, who will be upperclassmen next year, to leave.
I’m sure a lot of us had hopes that because the key cogs generally knew how to play together already there would be some sort of synergistic effect on top of individual improvement.