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Message: [QUOTE="Exit 4, post: 3175727, member: 2268"] 1. There is so much movement I haven’t had time to delve into the trends yet. Some good programs are losing key back ups just because said kid wants to be a starter someplace in their final year. The bad programs are losing kids that just simply want to be on a winner. A lot of kids just moving home or leaving because their school no longer wants them post injury. 2. Few had a roster like ours... 3. On the scholarship thing, I have seen some stories that several programs in the P5 expect to be well under their 85 slot allotment because we are now several years into the 25 man rule. Lots of programs are seeing the combination of transfers, grads and dismissals exceed 25 for back to back years, yet you are only allowed to bring in 25 replacements. I could be wrong, but it appears when the 25 man rule first came into being it was practiced that grads and JUCOs were exempt from the count, so a program could reload that way. Apparently that has been clarified to as part of the new portal to not be the case, all scholarships count towards the cap except for kids that have been WOs for two years. So- while I have been barking about mismanagement, I think you will read a lot of programs will have unused scholarships this fall. I fully expect a rule change next winter. As it stands, because of the 25 man cap, we can add just 2 to 4 kids this cycle. The reason it is unclear is because January enrollees can be flexed back and forth between years (I believe). So what does all this mean for UConn? Edsall doesn’t want to swing and miss again like he did with Hinton from Columbia. These last few slots have to be with kids that are really coming here. Beaudry, Harris, Morgan and Brown clearly want to be here and accept the challenge and opportunity. Second, I think they are looking hard at character. They need that locker room to be 90% good character guys/ guys that want to be coached and pushed... no more mediocre talent that has to be babied... that’s not working with the level of talent we get. Edsall will dabble with weak academics if the talent is superior...none of the kids that left had superior athletic talent. Third, all indications are that there are more guys floating in the portal than there are seats left in P6. This is the first year of this open process. Let’s see if they can find some interesting kids in June and July because the seats are gone and the clock is up. Of course - gonna have to be a kid that accepts UConn is the place - grad kids can walk at any time. [/QUOTE]

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