I said pretty much the same thing in another thread awhile back when people were wringing their hand about not getting McKinley Wright or Brad Davison, that the staff were likely looking at taking 1 guard and 1 big in the 2017 class so that the big man would ideally have a year of experience under his belt before taking over as the starting center in 2018-19. We ended up giving up on freshman bigs and took Jamir Harris instead, and then brought in Stockman to fill the role of the experienced big man on this team. I agree with you that it would be a hit to our big man depth to get rid of Stockman and, even with the excitement of adding a skilled Minnesotan to the team, Pitino would receive criticism for taking Stockman in the first place, a guy who had to sit out in a year when we ended up having major depth issues, and then having him leave without playing a game.