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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 3749709, member: 6979"]
the problem with the landscape of NCAABB these days is that if a player is good ...they are gone quickly.  and if you dont play them they are gne quickly too...the sweet spot for sustained success is pretty small and a hard target to hit.

More than any time in the past, as a rule, you have perpetual holes to fill.  Some very successful programs have gone the 4 year route...develop players and keep them for 4 years...the mid majors, villanova.

For all of its burger boys over over the last decade, i think Cal only has 1 title at UK.  Sure, 5star players are welcome...but also rare...and if you dont hav 5stars...theres a bit of a gamble that must be made...

SU has tried pretty hard with the 5star centers...theyve offered some very good ones just havent been able to secure any of them.  so they are left looking elsewhere. at projects.

they are also probably thinking...since having been burned by a bunch of early departures that it is better to go with the projects you can keep around t build stabilty in the program from year to year and hopefully supplement with some prime time players that stay short term.

either way, this means player development is pretty huge.  and it isnt really happening.

overall, development is just not really happening, especially at the 5 position lately for SU.

its complex. some of the players just dont have it.  some of it what they are being askd to do...basically be the glue of the team and do the dirty work with the gaurds and forwards do the scoring etc.

I get why it has been a problem. and agree that it is the biggest one the team has had recently.

I think the remedy is more flexiblity.

a system that requires multiple seasons to learn is harder to pull off in this era.

the probable best solution is a transfer big with smarts to learn quickly...if not a 5 star legit starter as a freshman.
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