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[QUOTE="VaBeachOrFan, post: 1375056, member: 1274"]
It's not so much that suddenly everyone thinks Coach Cal is right, but in Syracuse's case, the scholarship limitation might be playing a bigger part in pushing JB to the Dark Side.  Coach K admitted he'd rather have players around long enough at Duke to learn good defense, but capitulated to the high talent level he recruited and now has his share of ones-and-dones (along with a championship).  JB, though, may be thinking of the devastation that losing more players too early (Grant, Ennis and now McC) will have when the schollies are restricted to 10 and realizing that the Dark Side may be his only chance to field representative teams.

That means no longer recruiting the Keitas and the Fairs and the Scoop Jardines -- letting them redshirt or develop behind other seasoned players.  Instead, he appears to be casting the net for high-talent players and assuming they'll bust out in one or two years at best.  If you're going to have to go with young players who think they're NBA worthy even when they aren't, then you might as well try for the ones who really are and take your chances with a different mix each year.  These "turnstile" rosters seem to be having the effect of causing really good players to remain undeclared longer into the recruiting season, waiting to see who jumps to the pros and where the immediate vacancies will be.

I don't like it, but JB and SU may have no choice but to play that game.  With 10 schollies, they're only one injury and a foul-out from being totally bare at a specific position in any given game.  I know JB doesn't play a deep bench anyway, but there's a difference between thin and being threadbare.-VBOF
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