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[QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 5358650, member: 559"]
The aspect of this that Mike didn't expound on is the support staff that was in place last spring. It was essentially Red, Griff and Engelstad with Pete Corasaniti before Straughan was hired. Staff was understandably 100% focused on the current season's games and unable to focus on roster construction for this year until we were knocked out of the ACC Tournament in mid March. Then, and only then did they realize that the budget they had set and communicated to the collectives for this year's roster would be woefully inadequate. 
We have now added a GM and a data analysis guru so we have 1 head coach, 3 assistants and 3 support staff members, 
Compare that to Duke's 1 HC, FIVE assistants, and at least EIGHT support staff members dedicated to the product on the court PLUS a fundraising arm dedicated solely to men's hoops and a staff that is tasked with player branding and developemt. I'm not even inclusing the others whose titles I couldn't decipher. 
It's not solely NIL and quality of coaching. The larger issue is the level of support that the program is receiving from the department. Let's see how that changes beginning in a couple weeks.

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