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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2190224, member: 285"]
We have clearly had to scramble this year to fill some holes, but there are a lot of reasons for that and I am not ready to say the program is on a downward plane.   Most of the core issues appear to be getting addressed (e.g. (i) Sanctions have been imposed and are playing out, they will soon be behind us;  (ii) the dynamic of JB handing over the team to Hop is resolved.  It's clearly JB's team for the foreseeable future.  I have the feeling the transition from JB to his successor will be handled much differently than JB to Hop;  (iii)  JB appears to be re-engaged in recruiting.   You have to have clear leadership.  To the extent that JB was backing off because he was quietly passing the mantle to Hop, because he was disinterested or whatever...I think that will be and has been addressed;  (iv) to the extent that some of the decisions that were made related to misreading the current recruiting climate I think we can count on JB to learn from any mistakes.   He is nothing if not an exceptionally smart guy.   He's not going to have come through this process and not learned something.

So while recruiting is the life blood of the program, recruiting rankings and projected strength of incoming class doesn't always tells the whole story about what kind of team you will end up.

That said.   Last year we were really happy with the roster we had returning, we were predicting a Top 10 pole to pole kind of season.   Predictions are just that.   We didn't get the kind of jump in performance we were hoping for last year from guys like FH and TR, this will be a different year different chemistry different cast of characters.   We'll see what JB can do with the collection of talent that we have next year.
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