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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4628300, member: 833"]
I am a bit skeptical that this kind of performance by a team or even a conference is repeatable.  I think it will be somewhat random year-to-year.  These high major coaches are not idiots (with a few exceptions), and they will all have a lot of film to assess for up-transfers.  Newton, Calcaterra, Boum and Scheierman are probably 4 of the best up-transfers this offseason.  It is worth noting that all 4 joined good teams and did not have to carry their teams this past year.

There are some other examples of up-transfers that had big years for good teams, like Council at Arkansas, but most of the most successful were able to be pieces of a good squad rather than stars.  Some of the big years were for bad major conference teams (RJ Williams at LSU) which is not surprising.  There is a lot of overlap between the bottom major conference teams and the better mid-majors.

This is why I think St. Johns is going to really struggle this coming season.  There are just not a lot of examples of a major conference program assembling a team of mid and low-major players and being successful.  Missouri is the only team I can point to that did that.
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