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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 5612186, member: 363"] “Starting”? We finished the season with 8 straight horrific losses where the team looked inept and we have lost a ton of our best young players in the portal. Tough to develop these good HS recruits when they don’t stay long enough because the team stinks and tough to win games with no talent. Viscious circle. You can’t just replace these guys via the portal either unless you have Texas Tech type funding. More and more the portal is just highest bidder type stuff, there are exceptions for sure but adding starters and guys that can contribute immediately takes a lot of money. The 8 losses in a row has turned the program upside down in a hurry. Nobody wants to play for a laughing stock losing program and that’s the perception out there. Fran’s stock absolutely fell off a cliff in 2 months. It’s actually staggering how quickly it happened [/QUOTE]