This is such a crap excuse people are giving. If he was a good coach, he wouldn’t need to worry about losing those and having a tough schedule because he had built a program that should be, and was, at a level that could compete with that schedule. Ok, we lose Bell and Joe. Huge, huge losses. However, he has shown a lot of success in the portal and could have restocked. He had the foundation already.
If part of the reason he left was because of a hard schedule and losing Joe, Bell, and maybe Cam, then I’m not sad to see him go. A good coach continues to raise the bar each season, not tuck tail and run.