If a student athlete leaves to go to Yale after the team makes a run to the national title game then kudos to him for being that good of a student athlete and kudos to williams for recruiting him. I think Williams had a former player starting on Yale last year as well. That is impressive to me.
It is a different world, good players leave teams every year (including teams that are very good). The circumstances are often very personal. I am not particularly in the know but I do know of several kids who have left very successful programs in the past couple years for all myriad of reasons. It is a different world the kids have flexibility and a lot of them have had stunted college experiences where they either had their playing careers put on hold or paused and where they may now be older and thinking of different things to spend time doing or may be dealing with different life concerns. Who knows. It seems that at the higher level of d3 it is becoming increasingly common that coaches come and go as well and kids are not always playing for the person that recruited them.
I don't think it is helpful to speculate on these things and it can be harmful to the kids involved to have their names bandied about. If there is a pattern over a number of years in a school it will play itself out but at the d1 level at least the best teams often lose multiple players every year and bring all new ones in. I don't think that is a good model but again who knows
It is a different world, good players leave teams every year (including teams that are very good). The circumstances are often very personal. I am not particularly in the know but I do know of several kids who have left very successful programs in the past couple years for all myriad of reasons. It is a different world the kids have flexibility and a lot of them have had stunted college experiences where they either had their playing careers put on hold or paused and where they may now be older and thinking of different things to spend time doing or may be dealing with different life concerns. Who knows. It seems that at the higher level of d3 it is becoming increasingly common that coaches come and go as well and kids are not always playing for the person that recruited them.
I don't think it is helpful to speculate on these things and it can be harmful to the kids involved to have their names bandied about. If there is a pattern over a number of years in a school it will play itself out but at the d1 level at least the best teams often lose multiple players every year and bring all new ones in. I don't think that is a good model but again who knows