While the start of your point is fairly harsh and debatable - who knows what the staff thinks fits or not and with rosters of Hopkins' recent size how do you know they don't belong - the conclusion of that paragraph is a good point in that PM does need to think about the impact on his relationship with coaches and programs that he may not have recruited as heavily being up in Ithaca. Hopefully, the coaches will realize that he had to do something and he had to address an issue that was not his creation. If I am Coach Schmidlap of the Ridgemont High lacrosse team maybe I won't be happy if Lil Johnny got encouraged to look at other opportunities or outright cut. However, maybe I will understand that the Hopkins coach would have kept everybody if the roster size was anywhere near rational and it was not his original intention to clear out anyone just because they weren't originally his guys.jhu06 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:12 am there's a half dozen kids right now who if you read their bios and look at what they've done so far have no business on the roster anymore, probably another 12-15 who the staff doesn't think fit and that's just a start. The problem is each one of these kids comes from a program, a community, a network of younger players and how they're treated especially in the corona times of uncertainty for a new staff when the JHUML has been down for awhile is going to be remembered and either rewarded or punished by these current players hs coaches, communities etc.
The point remains - it does not seem feasible to have a team where 35-40 kids don't play competitive minutes at all. This isn't big time college football. I don't know how you prevent implosion