Who is gone?

[jbags]

It's about the time that we hear who is leaving the men's basketball program. It happens each and every year. Hard to develop a program with constant defections. Keep an ear out

[IAA Fan]

It's about the time that we hear who is leaving the men's basketball program. It happens each and every year. Hard to develop a program with constant defections. Keep an ear out

This team is a pretty close-knit bunch.

[jbags]

You watch... it happens every year...never any growth

[ValleyTalk]

Bye bye Andrews. His reasoning at link...

@j_andrews25: Thanks again to everyone.
https://twitter.com/j_andrews25

[ytownchief22]

This is just unreal. A transfer 3 years in a row. Continuous 20 loss seasons. What a joke this program has become. Shameful.

[jbags]

Close knit bunch huh? Told you someone would leave...maybe more...This will happen til our head coach goes. Sad...no continuity..ever..

[IAA Fan]

Are we overreacting? Yes we are. This will happen every year with any coach on the sidelines. If you are a bottom-feeder, players think they can do better. If you are a top team players get no playing time. If you are a middle-of-the-back team, nobody cares.

[Penguin Nation]

In conference play, he was our third leading scorer....as a freshman.

Expecting the next years under Slocum to be any different than the past 11 is delusional and moronic.

Like he did for FB, moRon Strollo has again doomed the future of another revenue sport...with Vindy writers cluelessly cheering it on.

Will Slocum now trash Andrews....as he did with others who escaped....and say this is "addition through subtraction"...of a player HE recruited?

[ytownchief22]

Are we overreacting? Yes we are. This will happen every year with any coach on the sidelines. If you are a bottom-feeder, players think they can do better. If you are a top team players get no playing time. If you are a middle-of-the-back team, nobody cares.

We're not overreacting. This does not happen every single year to coaches. It's just a sign of where this program is.

[YSUGO]

I think kid set fresh records for 3's.  If he was going home to a D-2 school I would sign off his release.  This has happened way to much and the kids go do a better D1 school.  Strollo is on record that he is way to easy  on letting kids go.  We are not a training ground for other D1 schools.  How can we keep Slocom after all these defections.  I don't care how cheap he is. This program and Slocom are the laughing stock of D1 Basketball. You cannot develop from within by people leaving and let them leave because they are homesick.  What a joke

[IAA Fan]

OKay ...riddle me this batman ...

1. Do we know why he is leaving?
2. Do we know where he is going?

Here is what we do know:

1. He is not as good of a guard as Davis
2. He is not as good of a guard as Santiago
3. He is not as good of a guard as Morse
4. He gave us a solid 20-minutes per game and averaged just over 7.9-points per game.
5. Needs work on rebounding.


It is a loss no doubt.

[ucfpengbuck]

Andrews has a big upside.  Great stroke with good b-ball skills.  He just needs maturity as any other frosh.  Hate to see him leave.

[YSUGO]

it doesn't matter if he wasn't as good he was a fresh and we need depth on the bench.  So instead of building a player to get to his Senior year.  Another school gets him.  Sorry don't buy it.

[YSUGO]

This is the third straight year we lost a good player.  Basically 3 starters .  Ryan Weber averaged 10.5 pts at Ball st.  The kid we just lost was a top fresh on its all league newcomer team.  I boycotted last year and I am boycotting again till a change is made.

[Penguin Nation]

I posted this article on a related thread earlier this month, but it seems timely to bring it back:

http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/mar/02/like-it-or-not-slocum-will-return/?print

It is an article from 2011.  Here is an excerpt:

"He’s also struggled to keep players. Six have left in the last 12 months, with another, Devonte Maymon, likely to leave after this season. If you make the argument that most of them needed to go — something I’ve heard — well, who recruited them in the first place?"

This is not just the last three years, but losing talent is an ongoing pattern with Slocum. The next sentence summarizes the absurdness of renewing Slocum's contract:

"Slocum isn’t going to change."

Five years later we know Scalzo was correct....Slocum doesn't change....and yet moRon renews his contract anyway.

The following sentence summarizes moRon's hamster wheel brain:

"Athletic director Ron Strollo isn’t satisfied with winning 25 percent of the Horizon League games every year but he also doesn’t want to make a change just for change’s sake."

Umm...yeah....you wouldn't be making "a change just for change’s sake"....you f***ing idiot.....you'd be salvaging what used to be revenue sport that is also an epic embarrassment.