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[QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 51790, member: 230"]
Success depends more on recruiting than anything else and it isn't even close. We need to protect our home turf and our pipelines and expand them. Other coaches should not feel that they can come in and take kids from our turf. Protecting our image goes beyond current recruits. Its about the future.

How much of a chance would we have for a five star from Kentucky or N Carolina? It should work both ways. They need to know that they do not have a chance poaching in our turf. Success depends on branding. Corporations slug it out over sales. Basketball colleges slug it out over recruiting. In the end, it is all about image. If we are poached our image is soft.

Did Pay Pal think he could get Drummond from UCon?  We do not know when or where the next top 10 player will come from, but we do know that every top ten player attracts a lot of attention.  Our odds of keeping someone from our turf depends on the image other coaches have regarding how hard it would be to take someone from our turf.
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