Emily Waner quit the team midseason (2007-2008) because of McCallie. She started a few games.
Brittany Mitch transferred after one year (2007-2008) because of McCallie. She might have started one or two games.
The exact language is:
"WCBB: Duke's 3rd leading scorer Alexis Jones to Transfer, becomes 5th starter to Leave Program."
Gray, Liston, Peters, and Jackson all graduated. All were starters last year (Jackson moreso after the Jones injury, but she had been a starter in prior years). Unless the author meant it in that context, in which he would *technically* be correct, there have not been five starters to leave the program in recent memory.
Thanks for the info on Waner and Mitch, as I only checked on the recruiting classes that came after JPM arrived. But of course that makes only starters 4 who have left the program in the past 7 years, which seems far less alarming, especially when you consider that there are usually transfers when a new coach arrives. Only 2 starters have left since McCallie's first season at Duke (but both in the past 6 months).
As for your other possible interpretation (that 5 players who have started left last season), that certainly makes the most sense, and it is technically correct, as you pointed out. But given that Mike Flynn made this comment in response to Kelly's post (
LINK: "I guess
@Duke_WBB admins don't want to investigae complaints about player treatment, duck issue.
#victims"), at least Mike Flynn interpreted it the way most of us did, that these starters didn't leave the program due to graduation! I'll bet Kelly's tweet was emphasizing Duke's huge loss of experience, and Flynn used it as an opportunity to take a swipe at McCallie.
