People were always enamored with his size, but his on field results have been mediocre at best.
The doom and gloomers will see this as some kind of referendum on Golden, no doubt.
How could it not be? The ship is sinking and the golden apologist try to spin all the bad news into "that's ok... we'll move on and be better for it."
This has nothing to do with whether Bunche can play or not. It had to do with the currents state of affairs at UM. Recruits dropping like flies, current players upset - some transferring, half the BOT and administration being against golden / half on his side. On and on and on.
Don't be all high and mighty and thumb your nose to me because you view everything in a half glass full manner. Good for you. I tried that under Coker & Shannon. I tried ignoring the truth. I won't go down that road again.