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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5443625, member: 722"] It is a strange dichotomy that Red feels like a lousy communicator in press conferences and interviews, but empirically is a good recruiter of players. Red, without any history of coaching excellence, has done better recruiting for Syracuse than anybody since Hopkins left. It is strange, we usually think of the two things going together. He seems to connect on a personal level much better than in the more public settings. My few times meeting Red, he’s been very soft spoken, polite, but not particularly magnetic. Hopkins, on the other hand, was as charismatic as could be. But, recruiting is the lifeblood of the program, as long as Red can continue to reel in top players, he has a chance to develop the other skills he needs. [/QUOTE]