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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 5092538, member: 12253"] i can't decide if i love or hate the portal. without the portal, we don't get Sheffield, Bell and the RB's - Fair enough. BUT --- Like, what is the point of recruiting anyone other than a plug-n-play player, if everyone is gonna transfer away anyway? why invest your energy in developing a nick evers? he will suck until he doesn't suck (if he develops at all), and if he does turn a corner, he gets greedy and looks to get back into the P4, using our tape for his benefit (see Diego Pavia, Joly, Sluka, etc). i don't know how this new normal translates into sustainable success for teams like UConn, who are spending their efforts developing kids who are probably just using us to get to where they [I]actually[/I] wanna be. it doesn't feel mutual. I might settle down if I saw it being fully mutual - we're gaining from them as much as they're using us. But one season of "success" doesn't erase 13 years of futility, and if every year is a major roster rebuild because of portal departures, then we have no guarantee that next year will be any good, based on how well this year went. We could go 9-3 just just go 2-10 again the next year. and i didn't even mention the money being spent. Just coaching effort/investment. [/QUOTE]