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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 5154146, member: 1047"] Yes and now he can sell it to recruits and their families. The impact of that can't be discounted. I see people sometimes mentioning that we should've taken Kobe Brea this offseason. He has some pretty gaudy shooting stats from 3 this year, so that is a natural reaction. But what would be the cost? We have a glut of players that we recruited at his position, we don't want to upset the delicate balance Coach is trying to achieve. Who wouldve been driven to the portal by that move? What would happen to team chemistry? All that stuff is in play. It's a game of dominoes crossed with a game of Whack-a-mole. Hurley decided to ride with the kids he brought in, and I was, and am, fully on board with that thinking. Will it always be the right move in hindsight? I think that in the big picture over the long term the answer is yes even when a player might be out performing a comparison in the short term. And that is not even taking into account what a crapshoot the portal is. We won that crapshoot last year when we got snubbed by Timberlake and ended with Cam. That was blind luck. This year it seemed that we made a choice of Mahaney over Brea. We weren't going to take both and blow credibility with retained recruits who have upside. We won't know the results of those choices until the seasons over, but I feel that he does things for the best of the program in every instance so far. [/QUOTE]