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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4351555, member: 1329"] Philosophically, I think ideally you build the team with freshmen. And then you fill weaknesses through transfer portal. You can get a quality transfer to come be a starter, but can't really get them to be bench players unless they have some warts or you get lucky. So then in practice most of your bench players are freshmen/sophs who came as HS recruits. Of those, when they're juniors you make tough decisions on the ones that will never be starters and replace them with transfer starters. And obviously always looking out for good other transfer opportunities and dealing with unplanned departures. So you pretty much just have normal-sized HS recruiting classes, but swap in and our as rosters require. [/QUOTE]