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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5324507, member: 966"] You keep changing your argument and ‘augmenting’ it with more illogic. You directly addressed a message about LeMoyne and Youngstown St., and how we were only barely better than them (at home) and your excuse for us not being superior is that everyone else is “amassing talent.” So, go back and tell us how the amassed talent of those two teams is superior to ours. “Back in the day” is irrelevant. DC, Stevie, Billy, and Sherm aren’t walking through hat door. And if you need the likes of them to have safe margins against the ‘lesser thans,’ then, yes, coaching is still the culprit. No, the entire fault of not securing players they want was not financial. It’s partially financial. They still identified and targeted certain players. They assessed the players we got. Somehow didn’t assess (or care?) that only Taylor and Cuffe were adequate defenders. And the coaches are ‘responsible’ on other levels, as well. If you don’t demonstrate you can do certain things well the previous year, potential transfers aren’t going to be very receptive to your pitches even if you have competitive money. Keep playing reedy forwards against bruisers at the 5 and quality forwards will not want to play for you. Show no concept of an offensive scheme, and players who have one year to prove themselves to the nba will have no interest. Have players talking about dysfunction within and players will have no interest. Don’t make the NCAAs yet again… and you don’t get interest from impact players. Don’t make the NCAAs yet again and fans and boosters don’t get excited enough to put more money into your coffers to sign the more impactful players. It’s a chain. Of events and conditions. And guess who is responsible for it all? I will ask this question again—did you see the difference in the quality of defense from the first third of the ND game vs the second two-thirds? We didn’t upgrade the talent during the game. The potential for that upgrade in defensive play was there all along. Who, again, is responsible for extracting that? For motivating that? For teaching that? [/QUOTE]

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