The cry is as common in autumn as geese honking as they glide to rest on a pond, as predictable as frosty mornings in December.
Frankly you can’t blame coaches for bemoaning a condition that makes their jobs more difficult. OK, you can blame them, but only because complaints about having a roster packed with young players is old news by now in college basketball.
While that youthfulness is particularly true at programs that see players leave early for the pros, it’s become a constant across the spectrum of teams that endure transfers going and coming.
Coaches by and large learn to stifle public comment on their squad’s callowness despite enduring predictably overzealous, unfocused, inconsistent, injudicious or simply uninformed plays.