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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5369700, member: 628"] I'm someone who's saying that so let me expand on it... We certainly won't know in 60 days if we're going to be comfortably in the tournament. What we will know is (a) Red's player retention ability, (b) Kline's player acquisition strategy, (c) Red's player acquisition skills, and (d) our player compensation competitiveness. Simply put, we'll know who left, why they left, who we replaced them with, and where they came from. If we end up with a roster of, say, Starling, Cuffe, Petar, a mid-tier power conference transfer, and a few mid/low major transfers, then we'll know that those who claim Red sucks and SU isn't "serious" about basketball were right. If we retain Freeman and Moore, and land several high-priced, starting-caliber power conference transfers then we'll know that at least Red stopped the bleeding and we're "serious" about competing. Whether we make the tourney is a different issue. [/QUOTE]