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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 452863, member: 338"] IMO it's a problem, but not one that can be "fixed" per se. Our program's name is still largely dirt. That's all there is to it. Doesn't matter who is coaching here. It's going to take several years of notable success to get the better prospects looking again. Some years we'll do OK, some we won't. We have almost no margin for error, though. Hit a bad stretch of play and we can lose out on most of the good prospects we are looking for. That is the reality when you are fighting tooth and nail just to get kids to take you seriously again. Editing to add this: I suspect that we may have got the ear of some kids last year, even despite the late season slide, and Marrone told them, "Hang in there, watch how we come out of the gate next year." And they did. [/QUOTE]