Yeah, you're right, getting a better player out there doesn't necessarily mean that the team gets better, but does this team strike you as one that has good chemistry? They've been a mess for much of the year. Of course a coach can sit a two-year starter on the bench if he isn't getting better or is getting outplayed, especially when all we hear about is how mature that two-year starter is as a person. Everybody wants the best for him, but that doesn't mean you keep him out there if he's costing the team. You want to talk about how to lose your players? Keep a guy in there that everyone on the team knows shouldn't be playing and who could be costing you wins. If a lesser player is a great leader and rallies the troops and makes the guys, collectively, better, then by all means he's got a good reason for being on the field, but if the lesser player isn't a great leader or is costing the team games, then by all means, he should be holding a clipboard on the sideline. You can save the "kids with easily bruised egos" for someone else. This is college and the perfect place to learn life lessons.