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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 1990285, member: 485"]
Rephrasing the point, yes. It isn't a matter of "want to" as much as choosing how much to emphasize 2017 in the rebuilding approach.

Our head coach will be showing his priorities in using the remaining 7 slots.  He can go with all HS recruits (as Shafer did, with the exception of Mahoney who walked on) and bide his time in development mode.  Or he can pull from the juco and grad transfer ranks to enhance the team for 2017 and 2018.   There is a trade off (near term/long term) in using slots.
Marrone used the juco route aggressively in his rebuild, and it paid off in bowl teams in 2010 and 2012, but many believe it left Shafer with holes to fill.   
Shafer did not follow Marrone's approach, and took his lumps.   
Babers went outside to help Bowling Green -- bringing in a juco TE and a grad transfer S to bolster weak spots in his 2015 team.   
Babers did something similar in his 2016 efforts with Etta-Tawo, a grad transfer DE, and a juco CB (who never made it here).  Not enough to give us a winner, but the team would have been tough to watch without Etta-Tawo.

SU's 2017 team has some very obvious weak units -- DE, a safety spot, a CB, a replacement for Etta-Tawo.  He could upgrade the line talent on both sides.  Our RBs don't scare anyone.  So, build slowly, or reach out to juco and grad transfers?
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