First of all, the world is completely different now and it’s not simply a matter of kids staying with a program on scholarship. Zrno started off collecting a pay check - he’s almost certainly ones of the 5 highest paid players on the roster. The American frosh, in contrast, likely collected very little. If the season ended today, you can’t pay Zrno what he got this year to renew him without bumping a lot of others to that same rate because to this point he’s been outplayed.
In terms of the players you mentioned, GG did nothing last season at Nebraska so I don’t think he would’ve helped us. I’m sure Derek wasn’t really our decision. He’s a leader type and probably did not want to play second fiddle to Dylan and Ace. Not keeping Wolf turned out to be a very stupid mistake because we didn’t even end up replacing him on the roster. To this day I do not understand, if we weren’t to go after a center in the portal because we were afraid of upsetting Lathan, why on earth did we let Wolf go? We must’ve had money to pay PJ, and company. I can’t imagine it would’ve cost more to keep Wolf. What did we think we were getting in high volume mid major shooters who don’t play D?
