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Message: [QUOTE="Umami Zen, post: 4407462, member: 10678"] Covid temporarily affected recruiting and abbreviated AAU-HS BB seasons/schedules and consequently.. Coaches had smaller sample sizes to assess/evaluate talent on..It was unusual and unfortunate. Every CBB program was impacted by it. Existing roster construction (then) affected who/how you recruited. Building a program through recruiting is aspirational. I believe Dan Hurley prefers this to the portal approach but he realizes the practicality of selectively using the portal for certain openings as he has done for this season's roster. The portal opens up and is active after the end of the season. Season ending exit interviews happen shortly after the end of the season where the future for each and every player is discussed. The 2023 signees and the speed and efficiency with which the staff executed and closed on their targets is an example of program building. More openings after the completion of this year's season? Probably.. Portal or recruited? Who is here and who is gone-positional/roster needs [/QUOTE]