I'm hearing some good things about this one year grad transfer out of Ketchikan, Alaska. Learned the Point Guard position by tossing lobster traps and salmon nets overboard on choppy water and threading rope through eye-holes like nobody's business. Goes by the name Weron Dilliams and is 38 years old (the education system in Alaska isn't the best). We have any interest? And more importantly would the NCAA allow the transfer?
More seriously though, this is the risk of high-end portaling. I don't see this as similar to the Eric Gordon or Cliff Alexander debacles, it's just somewhat what you sign up for when going with this approach for high talent players. Sometimes you win like we did last year with TSJ, and sometimes you lose like we did this year with RayJ. The problem is the high risk involved when portaling key starters for your roster is losses mean you are left with a gaping hole that you likely will be unable to patch up. Overall I think Brad has had pretty impressive success in winning recruiting battles, and of course this is a big loss, but at some point it was bound to happen. Here's hoping we can pull something out of a hat or someone on the team takes an enormous leap. If we aren't able to though, is there any consideration to plugging in Justin Harmon at the point as a possible stopgap and then leaving the roster spot open for Boswell? It's far from perfect but might give us something. Of course that also means a lot more minutes for Harmon than any of us will want.