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(03-29-2019 09:39 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-29-2019 08:57 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-29-2019 08:44 AM)jumpshooter Wrote:  You take talent wherever you can find it; with 800 transfers likely in the portal, we're supposed to ignore a potential contributor? Riiiiiiiiight; so glad you don't coach ODU

Exactly. The recent changes to transfer rules means if you aren't getting in the transfer market then you are just shooting yourself in the foot. Plus everyone is assuming nobody is transferring away from our team when in reality each team on average loses 2 players to the transfer portal. No, I'm not in the know, but if you think we are immune that is a tough assumption.

We've had a lot of success with grad transfers and jucos. Not sure why we would cut ourselves off from a viable option just because we don't get them for 4 years. Again, that's the assumption that a great player actually stays here for 4 years. It's not a given.

We haven't had "a lot of success". They are band aids. When you have a wound, you need a band aid. I think our wounds have healed. We have no need. If we start losing key players, then we have a wound.

What would our record have been without:

Freeman
Stith
Stith
Kithcart
Arledge
Porter