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Message: [QUOTE="Rich, post: 4404915, member: 9018"] I mean......I hear ya Geno. But I don't necessarily share your optimism, primarily due to the effect of the portal and NIL on roster construction. Time was in the prehistoric days, Auriemma could hoard (what would have been) 5 star recruits with impunity and get them to stick on the roster without regard to playing time; fortunate for him given his proclivity to shorten his rotation in the regular season. Those days are over though. Kids can move around and get the best deal for themselves and their future ambitions and coach can't do much if anything to stop them. Good for the kids, makes life harder on the coaches from a pure roster planning perspective. I'm still not sure that Geno grasps this as fully as he should....I mean, yeah, we're taking transfers but we've also lost a lot of depth in the past few years that while maybe they weren't gonna be impact players it would have helped to have them on the bench in the event you need 'em. Younger coaches like Staley seem to be doing a much better job of this, and maybe that's not a surprise. I guess if you're the old (Husky) dog you don't really have to care about new tricks if you've got 11 pelts on the wall and are single handedly responsible for the sport's popularity growth and enhancement over the past three decades. [/QUOTE]