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(03-29-2019 11:29 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-29-2019 11:05 AM)757ODU Wrote:  

(03-29-2019 11:03 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-29-2019 11:00 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

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

Only one of those was a grad transfer and all were needed at the time. We are overall much healthier right now.

Yea Middle Tennessee needed the Nick King band aid....Please just stop.

I would think this year's results would prove, if anything, Nick King was a band-aid. A healthy program doesn't finish 11-21 and at the bottom of the conference in their rebuilding years no matter who the coach is. I know, there were other factors, but bringing in Nick King was indeed a 1-year fix and not a sustainable, scalable, or a repeatable process. Nick King averaged 3.3 points and 2.9 rebounds in seven games at Alabama. Bringing him in was a risk and they beat the odds. Not sure what role, if any, he played in them tanking the end of the season resulting in major disappointment, or the ensuing exodus, nor do I really care. What position, specifically, do you think we could bring a grad transfer into next year's team that wouldn't cause internal problems?

You don't think the coach leaving and the best 3 returning players transferring had anything to do with it?

There are several great programs throughout the country that sustain success with transfers.

Players want to win. They typically help recruit grad transfers to come in.