Anonymous Eagle · May 14, 2021
Jose Perez Will Be Leaving Marquette
Photo by Porter Binks/Getty Images Ever since late April, shortly after new Marquette men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart put out a press release announcing five newcomers to the program, we’ve been expecting more movement on the roster. Smart and his assistants have kept right on recruiting in the transfer portal even though they didn’t appear to have space within the NCAA’s scholarship limit of 13 to add anyone to the team for this coming fall unless Dawson Garcia stayed in the NBA Draft. Let’s be honest: Recruiting your 6’11” star forward off the team is a bad plan, so it always felt like someone else was going to be leaving eventually.
And now, we have that someone.