In basketball, the Herd has lost 6 scholarship athletes since the end of last season - Taylor, Browning, Nikolic, Loop, Thompson, and Allison. 5 of those 6 left with Marshall diplomas in hand. Taylor, Browning, and Nikolic are all playing pro ball overseas. Thompson will be playing as a graduate transfer this year at Wake Forest, but would still be here if he had been accepted into the Marshall Medical School. Loop will no doubt be successful in whatever career he decides to pursue. Only Allison left without a diploma, and he transferred to a junior college. So let me know when scholarship football departees are graduating at an 83% rate, and then we can have this debate.