Not saying he's not a loss. But that Top 60 thing is bupkiss. He isn't Top 200 if we were rating the class as it stands today. High school rankings die once the kid's in college.
He's probably eventually going to do alright wherever he goes. Probably would have done the same at UConn. He was raw coming in and very young. Definitely lined up to be a late bloomer. Even more so with having an extra year to red shirt on top. He probably should have redshirted his freshman year.
Anyone saying "he won't get better" is being dumb. Anyone saying "he wouldn't have gotten better at UConn" is also dumb. And when he does improve elsewhere, anyone who says "see UConn didn't develop him" is also being dumb.
It's like Deandre Daniels transferring after his sophomore year. He blew up in the second half of his Jr year at UConn. If he goes somewhere else, the same pattern would hold, though even more so, given the red shirt year he'd have been forced into.
The two prevailing thoughts on Enoch's departure seem to be:
1.) Its a huge loss. He was a top 60-ish kid from CT and showed some/a lot of potential and we would really be counting on him next year.
2.) Its no big deal at all. He averaged 2 and 2 and was a defensive liability and if he couldn't get on the court this year for us, then he simply inst good enough and never will be. Hes not hard to replace and its possible Carlton is better anyways.
The answer is somewhere in between obviously. Its undeniable that losing Enoch is a loss. On court wise it could be a minimal loss depending on how he would develop. Steve Enoch, no matter how much he develops is clearly replaceable. But his loss could be a lot worse for us off the court than on it.
If he says he's leaving because he didn't think we could develop him then that is not good. And, if he ends up going to a school like Louisville, then that really makes it difficult to argue #2.
If hes good enough for HOFer Pitino and Top 10 Louisville, then why the heck weren't we able to get anything at all out of him in 2 years?
No matter how you slice it, its mostly bad for us. A semi-big in-state recruit, who did pretty much nothing in 2 years here, who plays a position that is WIDE open next year transferring out. Hats bad. But if he leaves to go to a school like L'ville then its really bad. Really really bad. If he ends up going there and kills it, then its really really really bad.