Rodrick Caldwell to Transfer

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— RC3 (@RodrickCaldwell) March 13, 2018

So, based on his twitter feed, Rodrick Caldwell is transferring away from Bowling Green.  It's no secret that this is the trend in college basketball.  Playing time goes down and players go out.

Caldwell has just finished his sophomore season and was a Huger recruit.  He began the season as the team's starting PG and played big minutes.  He played 30 minutes plus in five of the first 7 games.  Then his minutes began to dwindle.  He played 30 only 4 more times the rest of the year.  Then, in the last 8 games, he played less than 15 minutes in 7 of them, as well as missing a game due to injury.  Dylan Frye was the starting PG by then.

I suspect defense was the primary culprit of the playing time issue.

He finishes his career at 7.7 PPG and 2.1 assists per game.  He started 33 games.

It is disappointing.  BG has struggled for years to assemble the critical mass of talent needed to compete and every time this happens it requires a reboot of one scholarship.  After the Thanksgiving tournament, I thought he was on the road to rounding into a top-flight player, but I guess it was not to be.

This opens up a scholarship for next year.  (Note, BG has 2 total to give at the current time).

Best of luck to him in his future endeavors.