You know what I would like to know and see. What each team gets in NIL and what place they are in their league. I bet few schools over reach too much from their NIL. I don't think BH will either. I don't doubt that he will come close to maxing out his NIL. But we need a lot of NIl if we want to be the school that we want to be. BH's first call should be to Melo. even before he calls his fiancé to tell her that he got the job.
This is a rare case where we disagree on something, Dasher. Because I think that this is a new paradigm for recruiting that bucks how we've done things in the past. Because I don't expect that BH would go out [if hired] and try to land a bunch of top transfers / recruits right out of the gate in year one. He's going to go get guys who are system fits first, to establish the footprint, just like he did at his previous two stops.
I don't believe we are going to need tons of NIL expenditure at first, because this will be a multi-phased roster reconstruction. BH will recruit system fits, using data from his stints at Arkansas State and USF to "sell" transfers on the type of system he will run. He's not going to come out of the gates trying to go after big time recruits, either via the portal or HS recruits.
Instead, he's going to bring in guys who will help him get his systems on both sides of the ball in place. And my expectation is that just as was the case in his two last stops, we'll see a quick turnaround in terms of our ability to play competitively against better teams.
And although he has no ties to this program, I would expect this process to emulate what we saw at Houston over the years. A bunch of three-star recruits with some four-stars mixed in, who play "better" than that rating because they are well coached and the system is sound.
And after the footprint is in place, and success gets elevated, THEN like Houston we might go after higher rated guys. For YEARS, Houston didn't have guys like Flemings / Cirac, who were highly rated recruits -- they got busy with a bunch of lesser-rated recruits who FIT THEIR SYSTEM. The funny thing is, some UH insiders were "worried" that guys like Cirac might not "fit" the hard-nosed intensity of the players they are used to in their program.
Please note, I'm not talking about bargain basement guys, or reaches like Howard Washington. BH will get quality players, they just might not be as highly rated out of the gate as what Syracuse fans are used to from the past.
But if the program gets established, the multi-phased approach will work -- both in terms of chasing higher rated players, and in terms of what will be required in terms of shelling out $$$ to land them.
