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Message: [QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 5052958, member: 994"] Well, let's look at it this way... Last year, we lost Jesse (a tier 1 P5 center) because we didn't have a cogent NIL plan at the time to keep him. In the portal, we (supposedly) were in the mix for Hunter Dickinson (another tier 1 P5 center) to replace Jesse. We didn't get him. Plan B was McLeod... a nice, complimentary P5 backup center. We effectively replaced a starter with a backup. Had we gotten Dickinson, there is a strong argument to be made we win enough games to get in the dance (especially since McLeod got injured anyhow.) Also, there is the argument that we were never seriously involved with Dickinson and McLeod was plan A all along... which, of course, is not exactly inspiring. These decisions have consequences... especially when the replacements aren't like-for-like and are actually a downgrade. If you have to "overpay" to be competitive, is it really overpaying? [/QUOTE]