Coach Oats mentioned that he wants to play four-out-and-one-in and even five-out on offense. Would Watford be considered an outside player?
I would not like to see Smith leave. He is the only experienced inside player right now and should still be improving as he will be a junior. There is always the potential for injuries and for foul trouble in games. Unless something changes, it looks like there are three bigs; a true freshman, a red-shirt freshman, and a junior.
Many of us lose sight on the fact that most players improve as they mature through their years in college. We focus so much on incoming freshmen that have immediate impact and seem to think that players have maxed out by the time they are sophomores. Sometimes a player's numbers are down early because there are better, more experienced players ahead of them but I suspect that most of the time the numbers improve because the player improves.