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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5088909, member: 722"] I was doing a puff piece, of course, so didn't focus on the negatives... One area where Autry doesn't appear to have excelled is driving NIL investment. Fran Brown came in and immediately killed it, which led directly to our huge recruiting offseason. I think his transfer recruiting was fine, with Westry and Starling being the best examples. But they were really high school recruits who dodged JB and then fixed their decision when he "retired." As the Lampkin saga really highlighted, NIL funds are critical to portal success. I think Red really made mistakes in "holding the line" during negotiations, and losing players that otherwise would have come here. Maybe that's a budget issue, or maybe Red just showed his inexperience in this sort of negotiating. It isn't like we'd been paying players for decades, like Calipari, for instance. [/QUOTE]