I'm in the boat too that I'm not going to get mad at Rhoades or Evans. And this move isn't unexpected at all to me. Rhoades knew that Peera had a very strong chance of succeeding him, and even though we'll have a bit of a transition next year, I do think Peera has assembled a strong staff and I could see basketball being back to the 2016-17 level within two years.

But Kaarlgard needs to put his foot down and take responsibility for the other transfers. Evans going back home to Virginia is fine, but there is no reason in the world he should allow MLE or Douglas to transfer there. I'm also wondering whether he can demand a home and home with VCU just like VCU got with Texas for next year and the year after that (that is if we want two games with them).

More importantly he needs to do some serious soul-searching within the department and find out why we're losing so many athletes in so many sports (ironically just about every major sport but baseball).