Former USC players dismissed from Wyoming basketball program
You haven’t heard much about former USC basketball players Ethan Anderson and Max Agbonkpolo this season. Why? They haven’t played well. The Wyoming team they played on hasn’t performed well. It’s one of those situations in which a transfer decision simply didn’t work out for anyone and everyone involved.
Anderson and Agbonkpolo have not transferred out of Wyoming. They were dismissed from the program on Tuesday — not for any scandalous behavior or unwelcome incident, but simply because Wyoming coach Jeff Linder didn’t like how they were playing. This was an unhappy collaboration between a coach and new players. The arrangement is over, as reported by Ryan Thorburn of the Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune:
“I know what right looks like and I know what wrong looks like,” Linder said Tuesday on evaluating his struggling team down the stretch. “As we move forward, we just want to make sure we have the guys who want to be everyday dudes and who want to show up and work and put the time in and do the little things.”
Yikes. Linder obviously thinks Anderson and Agbonkpolo didn’t fit that description, which is really surprising given how workmanlike Anderson and Agbonkpolo were under Andy Enfield. They had their weaknesses as players, but laziness was not a trait either of them displayed at USC.
It is also worth noting that UCLA transfer Jake Kyman was also dismissed from the Wyoming program. All three Pac-12 transfers to the Cowboys were shoved out the door. That’s how bad this season has been for a Wyoming team which lost on Wednesday night at home to UNLV, and sits at the bottom of the Mountain West standings.
