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Message: [QUOTE="packwrap, post: 5245351, member: 13341"] I'm usually very neutral on this subject, not getting emotional about disloyalty by players or coaches. I also became a Brooks fan this year watching his interactions with Amoore and her family, and developing the post player Silva. Now, I'm more dubious as Silva is leaving and the decision with Cass is questionable. A coach who is close to the players would certainly know the effort and planning it took for her to get into a DPT program, and how the school would work around basketball to help her get through year 1 of a 3 yr program, while playing SEC basketball. A player like Cass who may not get many game minutes, can still be huge as the 15th player on the roster, just by being there every day to fill out drills and teams at practice and scrimmages. The 15th scholarship has often been used to reward walk ons at UConn, or recently at TCU, who bailed out short rosters. Brooks gets judged on this one by what his roster ends up looking like. Does he really end up with full 15? Is the 15th so good that they should have dumped Cass? Lastly, if coach Brooks knew be was going to cut bait with the end of the bench, why didn't he communicate this earlier, so Cass wouldn't waste the effort applying to DPT at Kentucky? No matter how this works, it certainly shows Brooks is tone deaf. Cass on team all season while doing year 1 of DPT is a fantastic student/athlete feelgood story! Dumping her makes him look like the grinch.:mad: [/QUOTE]

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