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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2373060, member: 6761"] Thanks for the response, and I definitely see your point. I had dinner recently with a couple of D-1 coaches of relatively "minor" sports or at least sports not treated as major at that particular university. It was amazing how much pressure they still felt to develop winning teams. Many want to move up to better paying/more visible positions, but many just feel that if they don't have a strong record that eventually the AD will get around to firing them. I can certainly see your point about recruiting so extensively athletes who view American universities as places to effectively hang out for 1-4 years with their ways paid, while they learn English, make contacts, etc, and then go back and play pro ball. Not much different in essence then the 1 and done afflicting MCBB. I don't know whether USF could be competitive otherwise, however. [/QUOTE]