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[QUOTE="jonson, post: 4321990, member: 6034"]
If you listen to the entire interview (it is quite long), I think the point is more nuanced than this.  Basically, Graves said that, given last year, he had decided that using the portal negatively impacted incoming freshmen (in essence recruiting over them after they had already signed), thus making the freshmen more likely to transfer and so starting the cycle all over again.  (Thus the comments in the screen shot.)  However, he also stated that he wasn't sure that this was in fact the right way to proceed and used Arizona as an alternative model (lots of transfers both in and out of the portal + a substantial incoming class).  That model may, he continued, prove to be the way to go, but, for this year, he's decided to try another approach.

A couple of other tidbits from the intervieww:  1) Nyara Sabally practiced only 5 times with the team throughout the entire 2021-22 season, with the WNBA teams that were interested in drafting her (3 within the top 8) knowing that she would have to sit out this season (and so wouldn 't have to be paid!); and 2) Phillipina Kei played the entire season with a broken hand (she just had surgery).
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