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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 1018285, member: 87"] Your post, of course makes no sense. But it makes no sense in an understandable way. We all are frustrated and the tendency is to look under every rock for things to fix. The first thing we must do is take UK and Yukon out of the picture. We know that what those teams are doing have nothing to do with what we are doing or what our outlook is. Secondly, as to recruiting, you are suggesting that because our team is not going to be good enough next year we should start recruiting less talented players. I think you identified a real issue, but your solution is not the right one. I agree that we are currently getting very good but not top tier recruits (like Top 15 guys) and that strategy is absolutely perfect because those players are very very good but also likely to stay a few years. Unfortunately it has backfired because they are leaving early, basically after year 1 or 2. The aforementioned Yukon and Kentucky highlight the two different approaches: Yukon has a several players who were good, not great like Boat and Nape. They stayed until they became better than most of the guys they go against and Yukon makes a run - this is the mid-major type approach. Wichita State did that, for instance. Kentucky recruits only Top 5 kids and they made it on pure boom/bust because they know just about all their guys are gone no matter what happens. Syracuse is in between these two approaches: generally not enough talent to win an NC with Frosh/Soph level guys, but too much talent to have a ton of upperclassmen in key roles. I would suggest JB has recruited with the idea of preferring not to have a lot of one and done guys - but if he now sees they are becoming that anyway - then don't recruit lesser talents, you might as well go for the more elite guys. The logic being they if they are going to bail anyway, you might as well go for the talent upgrade. [/QUOTE]

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