Continuing from my thread about whether or not I should do this in the first place...

I'm going to cut three (maybe four) players from my current (crap) Texas-San Antonio team in DI Smith.

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I'm leaning towards cutting Rutledge, Ervin, and Daniels.  But Edwards, Jones, and Thomas are all on my list of potential cuts as well.  Keep in mind I run a Motion/M2M (which is why I'm thinking about cutting Jones).  

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

I think Jones is the worst player you have, plus he is already a junior.  I'd cut him for sure.  Your other big men are not very good either, but I guess you can't cut all of your bigs and start over - plus at least the other two are only sophomores and so should still improve some.  I'd probably keep both Thomas and Quesada.

I'd rate the guards as follows in each category:

Offensively: Hollingsworth, Rutledge/Funk/Ervin/Edwards, Crowe
Defensively: Crowe, Hollingsworth, Rutledge/Edwards/Ervin/Funk

I think Rutledge could be a useful player, but given that he is a junior and you have a number of younger players who are on a similar level, I can see where you might cut him.

My third cut would probably be Daniels.  You have a ton of guards and no other SF, but he can't rebound and is already a junior as well.  When in doubt, cut the older player.  So if I was determined to cut three guys, it'd be Jones, Rutledge, and Daniels.  Then you'll have a ton of sophs and frosh and may be decent in another season or two.

(I've never cut a bunch of guys I recruited myself, so I'm curious what kind of reputation hit you'll take for this!)

Alright, I understand.  And Daniels and Jones technically weren't my signings (I was unable to recruit that season and thus the assistant coach signed those players for me).  I'm assuming that even though the assistant coach made those signings for me, I'll still take a reputation hit for rescinding their scholarships. 

Rutledge is a player I'm tempted to get rid of though, despite the fact that I signed him myself.  The available recruits that I could potentially sign this recruiting season are just so much better than most of my current players (and they are definitely acquirable) that I'm willing to take the reputation hit if it means I'll be able to build up this team to a more respectable state.