Twitter rumor from Jordan Strack

[FalconTurf]

Jordan Strack‏ @JordanStrack
Source tells me that Malik Hluchoweckyj & Rasheed Worrell will both be leaving the BGSU Men's Basketball program.

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[Globetrotter]

Malik isn't surprising. Worrell was playing more than Wiggins in a lot of games by the end and could have started at PF next year. I believe he was recruited before Huger got here though so maybe he was the guy Huger was talking about in the postgame.

Could this leave the door open for Denny to return . It does leave the door open for a certain Michigan transfer that Gmartin was discussing.

[Globetrotter]

I know it's outside the box but it would be a shame if Malik didn't atleast attend a few spring football practices. He seems to be a great kid and even if hoops didn't work out here it would be great if he did.

[guest44]

Now it's time to find some toughness. Grad transfers preferably. Or even transfers that have to sit out a year.

[BGSU33]

This would be yet another blow to a team already struggling for any kind of traction it can get. It's also becoming very unsettling as that's now 7 players who have left the program in just two years, which is even a higher clip than during the mass exodus during the Dakich era. Something doesn't seem right about all of this. Yes I know part of it has to do with coaching turnover but it also stem a little deeper with what's going on with Huger. Here's the guys who left that I can think of off the top of my head:

Worrell
Hluchoweckyj
Tisdale
Austin
Dickerson
Gomez
Mayleben

[factman]

Just a GOOD spring house cleaning!

[FalconTurf]

These two struggle to get consistent and significant playing time throughout the year, they see Huger's recruits coming in and there are established young players already starting in front of both of them. If they don't aspire to be bench players then they start looking - it's the norm these days.

When players feel they don't fit and they decide to leave I'm not sure how that reflects on the coach. i would be more concerned if the list above were all his recruits lost over three years. Many were already halfway out the door when Huger arrived and none were initially recruited by Huger and staff.

[BGSU33]

Now it's time to find some toughness. Grad transfers preferably. Or even transfers that have to sit out a year.

Without a doubt BG must find experienced help, there's no other way around it now. We now only have a handful of returning players coming back and a group of true frosh coming in. I completely agree that we need either JUCO's or grad transfers, with a preference on the latter, especially a big man as now we have no one behind Wiggins. We're in real trouble there right now.

[BGSU33]

Worrell is the one that hurts the most out of all those 7 guys IMO. His production was down this year but he's proven that he can and is capable of giving us something. I actually thought next year he could have contended at the 4 instead of playing at the 5 where he looked out of position, but that looks to be out of the equation now.

[Flipper]

Not shocked by either departure. Hulu never played and there were a few times that Huger seemed to be implying..at least in my mind...that Worrell was a pussy

[hammb]

Malik is completely unsurprising. FANTASTIC athlete. When he came in the day of the suspensions he looked like he belonged on the court. A couple games later and he had lost that energy/enthusiasm and he was basically worthless out there. Not at all surprised to see him leave.

Worrell really bums me out. I think he could play, and I don't think his lack of playing time this season was indicative of his abilities or his role he could play here. I don't even think, necessarily, that he didn't "fit". I think our dearth of big men meant we couldn't play him at the 4 (where he belongs) for fear we would have nobody to put at 5 if he & Wiggins got into foul issues. I really thought he & Wiggins together could have been a quality front line, and due to our lack of depth we were never able to get them on the court together.

I was hopeful that bringing in some new big kids next year was going to get Worrell on the court more often.

I'm not at all concerned about the "exodus" at this point. That's what happens when you've got a program that was costing without trying to win for 4 years...it took an odd duck type of player to want to come here under Orr. Then we had a one season and unceremonious firing. The guys that have left have been through a lot, and none of them (I don't think) were originally Huger recruits. I'll start worrying about it if his recruits start bailing. And even then, more importantly, I'll start worrying when he's losing his BEST players instead of his back of bench guys. What made Dakich so frustrating was consistently losing guys that were playing major minutes and were some of our best players...everybody loses their end of bench guys, just the way it goes...

I am in agreement that I hope we can add at least one grad transfer with these extra schollies. We're already bringing in 2 kids we had to redshirt this year from injury, and a full freshman recruiting class. At this stage you're unlikely to find many top notch HS players anyhow, and I'm not sure what good it does to add 8 kids with virtually no college experience.

[guest44]

Just a GOOD spring house cleaning!

Exactly, the type of cleaning Huger should have done the year he got the job. Better late than never at all. Now, the transfers coming in need to be better than the ones leaving.

[BleedOrange]

This would be yet another blow to a team already struggling for any kind of traction it can get. It's also becoming very unsettling as that's now 7 players who have left the program in just two years, which is even a higher clip than during the mass exodus during the Dakich era. Something doesn't seem right about all of this. Yes I know part of it has to do with coaching turnover but it also stem a little deeper with what's going on with Huger. Here's the guys who left that I can think of off the top of my head:

Worrell
Hluchoweckyj
Tisdale
Austin
Dickerson
Gomez
Mayleben

"The sky is falling! What a crisis. Blah blah blah."

Enough. Not a single one of these transfers makes a goddamned bit of difference to the program.

Worrell has Hulu have been huge disappointments. It's fair to say that if they were going to add up to dogshit on D1 level, they would've shown it by now.

We have a spring signing period coming up, so we have a couple more scholarships to add. Good. Hugar is replacing these Orr/Jans recruits with better players.