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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5349293, member: 40"]
Couldn't agree more.

I've stated this numerous times -- if we were playing tough, competitive basketball and just coming up a little short because we lacked the horses...

If there were ANY -- and I quite literally mean ANY -- signs that the staff had a clue what they were doing, or helping players improve, or demonstrating that we had quality systems on either side of the ball...

But none of those things are true.  People started saying that Red was a plus recruiter right when he got hired, because:

[1]  We landed McD's all-American transfer JJ right away -- a guy JB couldn't get to stay home.
[2]  We landed highly rated transfer Chance Westry from top 10 Auburn -- a guy JB couldn't land.
[3]  We landed Freeman, a highly rated kid from the class of 2024 -- a guy who JB probably couldn't land.

It was exciting!  It seemed like a great sign, and hopefully a sign that Red had the recruiting chops to help replenish the talent pool that had dwindled under JB.

Problem is, that crew hasn't delivered a ton.  JJ has been good.  Westry never contributed due to injuries.  Freeman had a good start, but got derailed by injuries and didn't seem to move the needle with respect to team performance.  The transfer group brought in this offseason has similarly underwhelmed, to varying degrees.

So maybe the "recruiting" attribution that got made early on wasn't on-target, either.

If Red isn't good at much that the job requires, then no amount of NIL is going to change that.  If our hope is that we are going to be able to spend tons of money to bring in enough impact portal transfers to offset Red's limitations -- that doesn't seem like much of a strategy to me.  It seems more like wishful thinking that myopically focuses on addressing the symptoms of the problem instead of the actual problem itself.
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