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Message: [QUOTE="Huskymagic, post: 4286561, member: 8007"] Hurley has a good trio of Hawk, AJacks, and Sanogo. That's the good thing for us. However, they need to be surrounded by guards who can handle the rock and shoot the ball from the perimeter. The fact that we have an exodus at the position we most need help in is not good. Hurley has 2 main problems: recruiting isn't as good as people think it is. The guys we lost are overrated Jersey guards who aren't that good. The other problem is what you alluded to which is an identity crisis. You can't talk about culture and wanting to build with high school players, and then have transfers as main guys, talk about you are against the mercenary portal and then run to the portal to find mercenaries to run high-school recruits away from playing time. Similar to Ollie his words don't match his actions. Hurley was praising Gaff as a future pro NBA player in his first two years in Storrs, and Gaff was mismanaged, and became a shell of himself. He talks about Samson as having lottery potential/wall guy and the kid barely played. He talked about Springs as being one of the best rebounding bigs he's ever seen, and the dude hasn't seen the court in 3 years here. You have to be really successful to keep guys waiting like that in this new super corrupt era of NCAA basketball. You can't lose to New Mexico State in the first round for example. [/QUOTE]