Originally Posted by hawkoooo
It is inconceivable that we could be worse next year given what we return. Arguably we are returning 5 starters if you assume (like I do) that Mikesell would have been a starter this year if he were healthy.
Toppin, Matos, and Cohill are technically wild cards but Toppin has already been with the program for a year, Matos has juco experience and Cohill is about as highly touted out of HS as they come.
Toppin/Matos/Cohill/Mikesell >>>> Crosby/Svoboda/Pierce/Davis/Kostas/X
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What you posted is what people need to look at...
Take Cohill and Matos off the list...Mikesell and Toppin have the same chance to produce the same if not more than the entire list of departures sans DD.
Crutcher and Davis end up with a summer on campus. That is where the improvement and strength comes in. No reason to believe that both of them don't produce more than last season. Trey and Cunningham will continue to do Trey and Cunningham.
Sure, people can try and argue that the upside to Kostas may be a loss...but nothing indicated that he wasn't leaving at a moments notice anyway.
I would rather take the totality of the entire team versus the potential upside of one player. I honestly think we are in good shape...and this isn't to defend AG in any way at all...this is simply in terms of the production by the players that left and what has the potential of walking through the door.
