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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4095283, member: 966"]
I think the biggest problem with trying to rank us vs Gtn, UConn, Seton Hall, and Rutgers is thinking there is a meaningful way to do so. The basic point is, we're all pretty much irrelevant. We're all in the same pot, and it doesn't much matter in a pot of gumbo whether the bay leaf is on top of the sausage or the sausage is on top of the chicken.

[I]If[/I] we're 'better,' because we had more prestige and had it more recently than the other teams, that's fine. For fans. But, it's a moot point in terms of attracting high school talent [B][I]now[/I][/B]. At some point, recruits aren't looking at what you did five years ago, or a head coach's total number of wins, or the old, fat, and gray alums in the stands for one or two games per year. They're looking at top 10 and top 25 rankings, who teams are playing on tv, how often they're on tv, whether the coach seems to be a good/smart/reasonable/fair dude, whether they like the team's image, playing style, and positional fit, alums playing prominent roles in the NBA, and relationships they might have with positional coaches.
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