Tennessee and Indiana facing Roster issues
The University of Tennessee and the University of Indiana have some interesting decisions to make over the coming year after losing some key players.
For Tennessee they lost two key players in Ramar Smith and Duke Crews after they reportedly failed several drug tests. Bruce Pearl took a strong stand with these two because they were both very highly rated coming out of high school and were big pick ups for the Volunteers. However, they both have underperformed collegiately and will finish up their college careers at other schools. Both would have been significant contributors next season.
As for Indiana, the University upheld the earlier decisions by interim coach Dan Dakich to get rid of starting guard Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis and announced that DeAndre Thomas and Eli Holman would leave and be transferring to other schools. This leaves Indiana with only 3 scholarship players remaining and 8 players in all. Indiana made a great hire getting Tom Crean to come in and clean up the mess left behind by Kelvin Sampson and he’ll fix it but not without some growing pains. Sampson was fired after violating several rules and lying about it to investigators. The team also lost DJ White to graduation and Eric Gordon to the lottery of the NBA draft.
Both teams wont’ be as strong as they were this year but both teams will be better off than before by making the changes that they did. I’m proud of both coaches and universities for their actions.
