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Message: [QUOTE="Fatroony5, post: 3950592, member: 10323"] There’s no one right way to build a program. There are guys like Musselman, Hoiberg (more so ISU days) that are players with every transfer. They rely on it, it can certainly work, but you’re reliant upon who is in the portal. They commit to building that way. What I respect about Hurley is he’s got a process that works for him and he doesn’t try to deviate from that dramatically. Build the program through high school recruits, retain players, not overly rely on transfers etc, That’s his style. I respect that, he’s not trying to do something that he’s not. Everyone always want to overvalue transfers and undervalue building chemistry /retention through your own team. Transfers are definitely good, but there are tons of examples of ones that don’t pan out. He still hasn’t even had a full recruiting class go al the way through yet (B Adams was barely a class). It takes like 5-6 years to get it right where you have guys stay 4 years and the cycle just keeps churning. We wanna be like Nova. They recruit at a high level, retain players, and most importantly, develop them/create chemistry. It took Jay a long time to get there but now it looks nearly invincible. That’s my hope of where it could be headed. People need to remain patient and see what progress has been made. Was far from a given that UConn would even start winning again, ask Indiana and Pitt how that’s working out. [/QUOTE]