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Message: [QUOTE="nyclax, post: 4695350, member: 8261"] competition is good but it needs to be healthy competition. bringing in a boat load of transfers into a program that's trying to create a new identity (or return to an old one) can have disastrous consequences if it's not managed properly by the coaching staff and the existing leadership on the roster. look at ohio state this season. on paper they got more talented bringing in marcus hudgins and a bunch of other guys but the team was significantly worse. there is a point where it'll be diminishing returns. i don't know if that's after the 5th transfer or the 8th or the 12th, but there is a point where things get messy fast. your culture has to be strong enough to incorporate all of these new faces at once. it's not easy to do. bottom line: the team is more talented than they were and that was problem #1 to solve and they solved it. but that's only half the battle [/QUOTE]