You’re missing the obvious. If we had kept Archie all of the players would have been in the transfer portal. Not to keep their options open...but to jump ship never to return. We would be unable to land any other transfers, so we would have a team of walk-ons. This would be similar to Crean’s first year but the difference is its Archie’s lame duck year. It would have been a colossal failure. Archie had to go now at all costs!