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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2129489, member: 966"]
You keep crowing about the final four. What do you think is more important to recruits, the one week of being in the final four, or the three years being unranked and the 10th place conference finishes?

Honestly. Final fours are great. They make fans feel 'vindicated' in whatever rationalizations in which they're ensconced. They make for nice banners. But, if you're a top 20 high school player, you've got options, and you're going to want to take your talents to a school where you can be reasonably assured of being in the top 20, on tv (real tv, not streaming BS), and where you have a realistic opportunity to succeed in the NCAA tournament. Reaching the final four after being on the bubble, and having your pathway fall to you is not predictive.

The first half of your first statement was absolutely perfect. Ending with "mediocre." Must be nice to be happy and satisfied with 10th place in the ACC and not being able to win a single ACC tournament game. St. John's Wort?

"The Grass is Always Greener" makes for a calming bromide, but if you want and expect excellence, i don't think you get there by convincing yourself that whatever you already have is 'good enough.'
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