If it is coached by Muffett McGraw: 1st team AA center; rising star (future AA in my view 6th [man?]; back-up point guard, all for the season. And now staring point guard out for God knows how long.
I feel badly for Colson. Brey did a great job of identifying a talent most of his competition didn't. Unfortunately, after 18 years, still no bench.
There is little temptation to leave early and education means more to women players.
Is the talent on ND's bench very good, not really, but you can't replace a player of Colson's talent. Even Duke has a small bench, and would face a huge drop in talent if they lost one of their blue-chip starting 5. The players coming next year obviously improves ND's talent pool coming off of the bench going into 2018-19
After 18 years of mediocre recruiting. But if we are honest, we must admit that Brey has never had a strong bench, or used his bench much at all, and it has hurt ND.