I haven't seen anyone "against" Durham. They're against poor scholarship management, which, this coaching staff has given them over half a decade of reason to worry about. He may turn out to be a great shooter, but what happens if 2017 rolls around and he has our only scholarship spot but what we really need is a big? Then this wasn't the best use of a scholarship.
We're already counting on the numbers working themselves out for the incoming class. We expect to have a team in 2016-17 of 5 or 6 freshman, 3 sophomores, 3 juniors, and 1 senior. So, now who gets Creaned to make room? Or do we just expect Bryant to be a 2 and done? Who takes Bryant's place? Do we expect to have some 1-and-dones in the incoming 2016 class?
We are a program that has lately gotten all of it's best recruits very late in the process, so it makes us nervous to see what may end up being a very rare and valuable scholarship tied up about 18 months earlier than it might otherwise be used.