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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3526460, member: 730"] Looking down the list the only key player on that list was Young. Kind of like when Stevens and Tuck left UConn early. Maybe some of the others could have become key but that is just speculation. Patberg, Patterson and Prohaska were never key players for the Irish. Or even just role players Assuming they would become starters is just that, an assumption, not a fact. Nixon & Boley transferred for reasons unknown. But it wasn't because they were happy at ND. Jackie Young leaving early wasn't that hard to anticipate. Especially when she saw the team she was going to return to this past season. IMO MM took a lot of chances bringing in transfers instead of developing young players. Several top teams are doing it more and more. it's college's version of "rent a player" we see in pro sports. It's been working for Baylor and S Carolina. I agree that it was a lot of players. But to say that MM had no responsibility for a lot of it is homerism. She was earning 7 figures and at that level you are expected to plan better. A drop off after 5 starters leave? Expected. Going from back to back title games to not making the tournament is more than a "drop off", it's an extinction event. Reminds me of Tenn from 2008 to 2009. [/QUOTE]