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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5296183, member: 12088"] You have hit the nail on the head. The problem is getting the right mix of recruiting and ‘portal power.’ The lesson from Dawn and Geno seems to be that 50-50 or 60-40 is the wrong ratio. Maybe something closer to 90-10. The problem for the wannabes is that they’re in a hurry and building through recruitment takes too long for them. Of that group, I have a feeling Campbell is closer to solving the puzzle than Kim is. I’m also struck by the case of UCLA. Cori relied perhaps too much on the portal and lost her entire freshman class as a result. And even worse, the team she’d put together, which was widely regarded as a juggernaut all season, folded like a house of cards in the tournament. USC is a similar case, though perhaps not quite so dire. Coach Gottlieb had a great recruiting class and then took in portal players over it and it cost her some of her best freshmen. And to draw a bright line under it, that team made it to the elite eight and gave UConn its toughest test. Some might look wistfully to the loss of Juju and think they might have won that game but for that. However I think they were a better team without her, at least as constituted at that moment. A lot of folks dismiss Lindsay as a coach, but I actually thinks she’s quite good. She seems to have had the misfortune of recruiting a superstar and it distorted her team for two years in a row. Maybe it will be different when she returns. [/QUOTE]

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