Michael Swain

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Oh, a little bit of both, I think.

I think every time you go into the portal, I think there's excitement, right, because you have the idea of what could be.

I think there's also stress because you get to deal with agents and all sorts of different things that go with that, whether it be working with ones you know and have good relationships with or ones you don't know and you've got to kind of build a rapport with to get in good with the players.

So I think it's probably a mixture of both these days.

Yeah, it's probably a shorter answer on Bryson.

I just don't think that was a match, for lack of a better term.

Self-promotion this season, trying to get Bryson to play a certain way.

Bryson, I think, took steps in doing that, but then...

I just think didn't get all the way there.

And when you bench your starting power forward in the big 12 tournament, like that shows you that things are kind of broken at that point.

So that one is not as surprising.

Um, and look, even with Flory, like you go back to his high school recruitment, you go back to last off season.

Like he is someone that has been, you know, shopped around.

I know his agents and people who listen to like that phrase, but that's the truth.

And you can't be surprised after last year when he goes in the portal, um,

and gets the interest from Auburn and other schools and comes back to KU with different offers, you can't be surprised when that happens again.

Now, I think KU would have, in theory, liked to keep Floyd Badunga, but at a certain number.