Isn’t he in a program that takes 5 years?
Na he’s just in the comm school. Not in Batten or anything like that
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Senior day has always been for kids exhausting their eligibility; the relationship to academics is a bit tangential. The covid 5th year and NIL money has scrambled everyone’s brains in how to think about this stuff. One of the many reasons the covid 5th year (despite perhaps being a wise move at the time) is kind of a mess.
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I certainly hope so. He seems like a good kid. Hope he stays.
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Will happily lose this bet!
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I was told by someone who is pretty smart about these things that Traudt probably chose to redshirt this year because he had already planned to transfer. I would say that’s a strong possibility
Rings true to me. His demeanor looked pretty checked out when I caught glimpses in layup lines and on the bench.
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I just don’t understand the logic. How does intent-to-transfer lead to choosing to redshirt? You’re allowed to play and then transfer.
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save a year. Still has 4 years left
He gains a year of playing time
I understand that he gains a year of playing time. But a redshirt gives him that extra year regardless of whether he’s transferring. I don’t see the logical connection between the two things, is what I’m saying.
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He would have left in January if he knew in October.
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The thing about that, though, is that nobody would know that but Traudt, and if he has half a brain, he would never say it to anyone who mattered, so I am skeptical that anyone know this by hearing it from Traudt (even second or third hand, or whatever).
I’m not even sure I follow the logic of why redshirting would be better for a transfer than not redshirting.
I kind of think the narrative we’ve gotten from Tony and Isaac publicly makes the most sense. He thought about PT in light of game 1 and in light of what the staff projected his PT to be, and opted for the developmental year in a program that really pushes that option.
Now you know I have opinions on the choices that Tony makes and that Isaac made, but all in all, I just think that narrative makes more sense than “I want to transfer anyway, so let me retain my 5th year for Creighton.” I suspect he’s thinking much more short term.
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Possibly
Who cares at this point, , I mean really what does it matter. We’re likely to get a dumb IG edit later today talking about how he loved his time at UVA blah blah. Let’s move on.
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Good idea
My controversial view is that the choices our staff has made in the past, especially the very recent past, and how players have reacted to those choices, are relevant to the present and future of our program.
I keep reading a lot of people (not you, I don’t think) say something more or less like “well if he was homesick then there is nothing we ever could have done so let’s just move on and forget about him” and well, I suspect that’s not quite correct. But what do I know. I could be certainly wrong, and Isaac T could’ve had one of the few incurable cases of homesickness.
My homesickness was usually cured by a weekend home with Mom and Dad. At that point, I usually said – “okay, so maybe homesickness wasn’t the exact right way to describe the feeling.” 
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You was ready to go back to school after a weekend home. I know what thats like
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Well he’s not home sick he’s missing his girl allegedly. Those are 2 distinctly different things. Moms home cooking aint gonna fix that.
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He might have been a lost cause from the start. We’ll never know. (It does seem like he was probably a tougher retention case than usual.) But the actionable question is, did we do everything we could to bend that probability in our favor? I fear we didn’t, seeing as one of the actions we could have taken was to strongly encourage him not to redshirt. (And maybe there’s more, off the court, you can do to make sure a homesick guy feels like UVA is now his home away from home.)
Idk what the staff did on this front, maybe it was a lot, I just hope they recognize it’s part of their job now.
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