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Message: [QUOTE="jake0414, post: 4776538, member: 10619"] Adia Barnes acknowledges that she misjudged the extent of the impact of recruiting over incoming freshmen. She says the incoming freshmens' expectations have changed over the past three or four years. She has taken a different approach to taking players out of the transfer portal and trying not to overrecruit with "stars" but rather let her highly rated freshmen play through their inexperience and supplement the roster with role players out of the portal. She also admits that she took players who didn't quite fit out of the portal which led to the extensive turnover. I find Adia a very personable, capable and nurturing coach (if you fit the team culture and are willing to work hard on defense). The team caught lightning in a bottle during the run to the championship game (and thanks to Aari McDonald) before those recruiting missteps brought the program back to earth. I will find it interesting to see if (or perhaps more accurately when) Adia can get the program back to the levels it achieved three years ago. Barnes discusses her new recruiting approach in a preseason press conference from a month ago: [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgsdl_mqhM'][B]Adia Barnes Preseason Presser[/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]