So, actually, this is not surprising news at all, and I thought it could come to pass a couple months ago. Seeley never played with the intensity necessary. I could accept that last year as a frosh, but when he still jogged around the floor in an upright position this year, complete with lazy underhanded passes and loose hands on the ball, it just seemed like he was never going to have the fire required to make it at this level.

Maybe sometimes for guys like Seeley, if they get tons of playing time, begin scoring and getting emotionally involved, their intensity can be lifted enough to be acceptable at D-1 level, but most kids have to show it in practice first, and with the little court time they get.

Seeley never showed it to me on the floor, and after 2 years, he probably saw the writing on the wall. Of course, a fellow in a similar position the past 2 years, Knezevich, could have transfered, but instead chose to ride the bench for a couple years, and will emerge with a Cal degree. I’m sure DJ could have done that, but he apparently preferred playing time to a Cal degree. Since he’s apparently not going to make any money playing pro ball in any manner, it appears to be an odd “business decision”, as he put it.

Coach Monty should get the BEST recruit he can, JC or Prep. There really aren’t any good 2010 prepsters left unsigned out there (at least not within Cal’s reach) so my guess is he’ll either pick up a transfer (JC or otherwise) or simply scrap next season in hopes of working over the 2011 class. He suddenly seems to have some scholarship room to work with there. That’s probably what I would do. Let Crabbe, Franklin and Rossi feast with playing time experience! After the 2011 class, it will truly be a Monty led team. We are still very much halvesies with Braun recruits in the mix.

Suck next year in order to rock in 2011.

I’m hoping that Monty doesn’t rush to hand out these extra scholarships just to have bodies. I’m happy to suffer through a lean year next year, and have those scholarships available for the next full year of recruiting. This way we won’t be put in a position to have to settle on players now, just to have people play.

Does anyone know if historically Montgomery has given a lot of playing time to true freshmen? It’ll be interesting to see what he does next year. Either way, I’m excited about next year. Had Seeley stayed at Cal my outlook on next year wouldn’t be much different.

Looks like another year without a lot of experienced depth for the Bears…and a very challenging non-conference schedule. Looking forward to it though…

One thing’s for sure: next year will be a Monty team…by my count the only remaining Bruan players are Max and Harper Kamp!

Now we have zero wing players returning… does Monty have the option of bringing in a JC transfer?