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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 5005266, member: 5436"] Thank you [USER=489]@mauconnfan[/USER]... as usual you are a man of honesty and willingness to call out nonsense whenever it is presented. Let me be more blunt. Anyone who would highlight this formula and its results in his X feed and not call it into question is another goose-stepping moron. Let me start by saying there are only two main reasons I can think of that a model could find that Arizona and not UConn has had the most impactful portal transfers over the last 5 years. Those two reasons are: 1. Arizona had double the amount of them (13 to 6) with enough who have played significant roles on their regular season success. We have seen most of the recruiting sites play this same game by giving a higher grade to teams with more recruits in a recruiting class than a team with fewer recruits, but with higher ratings. 2. This model gives equal weight to statistics earned during the regular season as those earned while playing in the NCAA Tournament. Well... either of these reasons are totally bogus. And why is this model totally bogus? Because anyone with half a brain realizes that statistics earned during the tournament should always, ALWAYS receive a lot more weight than statistics earned in a November or December buy game playing against the School for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb.... or even a regular season conference game, for that matter. Tristen Newton's 2 Final 4 MOP's should far, far outweigh any statistical success that Jadon Bradley or any other transfer earned while at Arizona. Why? Because those guys all crapped out during the games that mattered, IN THE TOURNAMENT... While Tristen Newton was a star. In the Final 4. TWO YEARS IN A ROW! And he earned the MOP both years for his performances. He and UConn went 12-0 in the most important games over the last 2 years. Let alone all of the production that we received from Cam Spencer, Joey Calcaterra, Naheim Alleyne, Hassan Diarra, RJ Cole and Tyrese Martin during their time at UConn over the time that this model highlights. Bottom line: Who would we rather have had on our team in the last two years? Jadon Bradley (or any of the other transfers to play at Arizona) or Tristen Newton... or one year of Cam Spencer? We all know the answer, which is just as obvious as how nonsensical this model is to have anyone other than us at #1 when measuring transfers who played the last two years. The answer is... UConn should be #1... and there is no school that is even close at #2. Any model saying otherwise is complete trash. Rant over. [/QUOTE]

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