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Message: [QUOTE="MyDorona, post: 4539122, member: 9397"] This is the only correct answer, and for exactly these reasons. This was the season it dawned on me that after NC #2, we had become exactly the type of program Calhoun loved to beat when he was on the ascent- a team of five-star, NBA-talent misfits who only saw college as a year to kill between HS and the NBA. Calhoun could've had just about any recruit he wanted after Natty #2, and he almost did with Gay, Bynum, Durant, etc. I seem to recall an article or two after 2006 where Calhoun admitted that he had fallen too in love with the number of stars and rankings next to the kids' names, instead of finding the gritty, under-ranked players that fueled the program's rise in the '90s. I do not think we build another championship-level team in 2011 or '14 unless we have the '06 disaster, and Calhoun ultimately has this realization. [/QUOTE]