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Message: [QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5199579, member: 1268"] I've sited those two programs as ones I expect to start hitting walls if they don't adapt. Marquette may start as early as next year, Purdue has another year of their Big3. Then let's see how those two programs replenish. Marquette has zero chance to make an NC run this year - they have fizzled exactly as expected and always fizzle. It's the same script year over year. How do you roll that core back with Ben Gold as your center? They lose Jones/Mitchell/Joplin this year. They look really mid next year rolling back Ross as their only meaningful returner. They have a couple freshman on the bench, I do like Parham. If you look at their last couple classes and incoming, have a top 100 kid in each class, average of around 80. Not a lot of heat coming in. Purdue classes are even weaker, they barely get top 100 kids. Good luck turning over those rocks and developing. The one thing Painter does do that Shaka doesn't is find and develop bigs, which does give him an advantage. These guys do have stickiness, and that may be in part to them investing in these lower ranked recruits. They pay it back by hanging around. I've noticed that Marquette fan not showing up here after the GE do their annual fizzle out. [/QUOTE]