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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 1342891, member: 87"] Guys, college sports is all about recruiting. The football team's recruiting was starting to decline at the end of the P era. That is why he started slipping, not a sudden change in his coaching abilities. Then they hired a guy with no recruiting connections anywhere that could help us at the same time two regional schools started vying for the same guys we'd normally lock up. Those factors put the program in its current state. In basketball, recruiting is even more critical. Hopkins is a guy that we know can recruit and thus he provides almost certain stability and a high likelihood of being able to win. At the level we are used to? I don't know, but I think there is little risk of falling out of relevancy like football did. Bottom line: recruiting is about 75% of the equation in a coaching hire. [/QUOTE]