[SamuelMcF]

With some transfers, we can hypothesize that the player just wants to move closer to home, be with family, have family attend games, etc.  Is there any fig leaf here?  Jones' potential departure pretty clearly seems to be an indictment of the program, whether it be the OL, the coaching staff, or whatever.

No fig leaf.

To which I say: good. Starters who have not graduated voting with their feet is a significant highly-visible indictment of a failing program, and - in a world where Muir weren't AD - would crank up the pressure big time. It's one thing for a bunch of graduating not-really-contributors to leave. This is a whole new low.

[As qwerty mentioned, the OL was very bad. But that's to be expected with younger players under a new coach (recall Carberry's first line), and all 5 are returning. In fact, until this announcement, the entire starting offense was returning.]

[SamuelMcF]

With some transfers, we can hypothesize that the player just wants to move closer to home, be with family, have family attend games, etc.  Is there any fig leaf here?  Jones' potential departure pretty clearly seems to be an indictment of the program, whether it be the OL, the coaching staff, or whatever.

No fig leaf.

To which I say: good. Starters who have not graduated voting with their feet is a significant highly-visible indictment of a failing program, and - in a world where Muir weren't AD - would crank up the pressure big time. It's one thing for a bunch of graduating not-really-contributors to leave. This is a whole new low.

[As qwerty mentioned, the OL was very bad. But that's to be expected with younger players under a new coach (recall Carberry's first line), and all 5 are returning. In fact, until this announcement, the entire starting offense was returning.]