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Message: [QUOTE="scoscox, post: 3258617, member: 10030"] Not true at all. It took Gonzaga twenty years of sustained success and a national title game appearance to start recruiting at a high level. Conference held them back for years. Mark few eventually earned enough trust to overcome it. Recruits want to play in big games on national television and only the p5 and the big east can give them that. There’s a reason George mason never built off their final four and Davidson never built off steph curry and on and on. Anyone involved in recruiting will tell you it’s an enormous factor. I will tell you from a first hand perspective our recruiting at Xavier took off after joining the big east. Obviously the success of the school itself is important as well, but conference affiliation is a huge factor. In the words of the wordsmith Jim boeheim “we went from not being able to recruit the great players, to being able to recruit great players” [/QUOTE]