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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5268690, member: 10113"]
Two good posts.

However nowadays who you recruit now is not always as important as who you can retain or get when they “blow up”.   Before nil and sitting out a year was the rule,  recruiting rankings were everything.  Kentucky whiffed on 4/5 stars for years (whiffed by their expectations).  Their last few teams looked very little like their recruiting classes.  4 and 5 stars replaced by the best PROVEN kids available this year.

And Syracuse has always attracted a lot of guys who were ”one and done“ attitude type guys not quite good enough for Duke or UK.   Often we lost some after they got offers to those type schools.  We have not been a developmental program.   We need to attract more tough kids.  We have pretty Skilled players but very little toughness or discipline.  And we need more developmental players.  Bennett got a lot guys like that.  But as you said he left because that was no longer enough, even for one of the best at it.

But you’re right. Top 25 should be achievable.

Also need just 1 key guy not a (1 and done type guy) for 4 years to build around.  ((Kalkenbrenner for Creighton type guy)
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