You've hit the nail on the head, lvsooner. The RJ's headline clearly belongs attached to a different article...and a different kid.
Troy and Coach Kruger had a conversation, and Coach was up front with him in regards to what he felt his playing time would likely be next season. Troy, in turn, chose to seek his playing time elsewhere.
By all accounts, this was a cordial split. For whatever reason, the headline immediately led readers in one direction before the actual article steered them back in the right direction.
Yeah, in the beginning it questions if the attrition is continuing? What kind of garbage is that? I also can't stand how they have to recap the other three scenarios just to fill up space in the article when they are not even remotely relevant to Troy's situation. Those that are going to take time out to read the article care about the program and already know what happened months ago, or, if they watched a single game the announces talked about it at every telecast. I did like Rene's quotes. These RJ writers need more meat like that in their stories, not a re-hash of everything that has happened. I can't stand how Troy was even mentioned in the same story as the 3 that left because of their own selfish reasons.
Most of us know more about the Rebels than the guy writing the story. I have seen a lot of miss-information in his stories; incorrect number of schollies left, who we are playing in non-con play, and other BS that unless he is interviewing someone that has something informative to say, most stories are horrible.
One thing he doesn't mention in that story is, that with each player that leaves, the Rebels keep getting better. Troy is a class act and I wish him the best, but his departure doesn't hurt the team, it actually helps it.
The story sounds like a "negative" instead of a "positive". This is what we have all expected. We've kind of beat the "minutes" situation to death. Troy was a forward who would be behind Darger, Rene, Shaw, Santee & Mitchell for playing time this year. The following year we add Lopez and probably at least one other big. His "minutes" projection for the next 3 years was about 5 mpg.
Troys best option is to go to a Juco so he can play this year, and then go to a D1 team as an experienced player. If he transfers to a D1, he will loose a year of eligibility sitting out this season, as he has already used his redshirt year.
Just as with Kentucky (Williams), UCLA (Chance) and other schools, you have seen freshman transfer out during the last few weeks due to lack of playing time. When a player understands his situation on the teams depth chart, and then see's the team recruit outstanding athletes at his position, it doesn't take them long to put 2 + 2 together and understand their playing time is going to be very limited. We'll probably loose one player a year, every year, for the same reason. If thats not happening here, then we are no longer improving.
