Between Lewis, Long and Lard, at least 1 will not be here next year. Maybe open a spot or two for grad/juco. Law of averages would say 2 of the incoming players should help next year. With Shayok and Jacobson, we’ll be fine.
Even if 1 of them transfer, we sure haven't sparked a Chris Babb/Will Clyburn type of transfer these past 2 years. Of course I know its hard, because if they're any good, everyone in the country goes after them (see Kansas). While we're all expecting good things, we'll have to wait to see if Shayok and Jacobson are big contributors, both fundamentally and leadership wise. This isn't a knock on Prohm at all, because regardless of what some say, he did have to play catch up. Besides Long and Lewis were TJ recruits basically. (for those that insist its because he left we don't have enough good players). Hopefully we'll all feel better about the state of the program after watching the next few games and not let yesterday consume us. Losing and frustration seems to breed more of the same. Iowa going through the same thing, imo. I think the fight that Okie State is putting up this year, and I'd also use Nebraska as an example, of teams that lost players yet have battled negativity and yet been impressive makes our situation feel worse. After all, those teams weren't coming off six straight NCAA appearances. Its been hard for all of us to handle this big of drop off, especially in Hilton. Some attacked CW when he suggested this maybe wasn't even an NIT tournament team in the preseason. That it was being too negative. No it was just being realistic. Here's to hoping we'll see more of that Texas Tech game type team in the future. Battling for 40 minutes and doing the right things, win or lose.