Which is I am confused to the decision by Dain to leave? Maybe he felt Brad would bench him again
To leave any silly arguments about Creaning aside, our staff did not feel confident going into next season with Dainja, Hansberry, Harris, and Goode as core primary players. Not confident enough to prioritize them in a financial and roster planning sense.
I understand why they felt that way in each case, but it also reflected a
very high degree of confidence in terms of what was possible in the portal.
We could have kept all of those guys. It would mean we're pretty much done with the team we've got here, but we COULD have gone that route.
If that winds up looking like it would have been the better decision, we need to learn from that. I trust we will.
(Leaving the Chester stuff and the Goode/Indiana stuff out of it, we also just could have aggressively locked up Dainja as a star centerpiece of the team. I know and understand the disagreement on that point, but that's what I would have done as I said at the time.)