One of the cut athletes wrote:
Unfortunately, everyone on this list was cut. As a team (minus the coach) we all agreed to give it a semester to see what would happen with Carlson before jumping ship. Sadly, after we were introduced to Carlson in a team meeting cuts began. The portal window closed yesterday at 5 PM so cuts were made beforehand. Some of the individuals were cut by Carlson himself in meetings or calls while some others were cut in meetings with compliance and admin. We are not sure why some were cut by Carlson and others were cut by compliance and admin without interacting with him once. We are trying to figure out why they chose to cut certain individuals who have performed better than others who were not cut. Some individuals who were not cut were given a dilemma to either leave the team and take the scholarship Mark had previously promised for their performance this past year or give it up entirely and try to prove themselves. Very difficult and confusing situation.
Could you give a specific situation of an athlete who remained who had worse performances than an athlete who was cut? Are we talking about within the same grade? Same age? If they are doing this for performance based reasons, that is one thing but if there are ulterior motives as to who the coach wants to keep, that would be more interesting.