This ^^^^. We're not just talking about wanting players who have experience, but players who have experience in Cal's system. This "fix" that he thinks he's found is just a lazy attempt to to fill a roster after a massive turnover each year since he can't get the recruits he once got. A transfer with experience works best when they can come in and be a nice role player but also have someone they can look up to to teach them the system. Bringing in a grad transfer who is learning the system themselves but is also supposed to be a mentor to freshman who are learning the system and the college game, is really not that much better than having a team of all freshman. That would be like me leaving my job, going to a another job, and being told while I'm training that because I have experience at a different place, I'm supposed to train all the new people fresh out of college.
Having transfers is nice to slide into an already established roster, not when you're trying to reload. And returning players like Askew, Toppin, Ware, etc are nice but you kinda need the players like Jones and Lamb to return to have a strong foundation. The players we have returning are Tubby level players.
