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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.

I guess you and I just have a fundamental disagreement for what transfers are. I don't consider them 'band aids.' If you have access to talent, you go after that talent regardless of how many years they will spend here. You could get an amazing freshman player only to have them transfer away 2 years later. Assuming you can get a great player to stay here 4 years is less likely now thanks to the relatively new transfer rules. Staying away from the transfer market is just refusing to be agile.