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[QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 5372825, member: 7237"]
Oh I don't disagree with your points, I am simply saying in the NIL world with the transfer portal, synergy is much more challenging to achieve compared to previously when JB was coaching most of the time.

I bet players are all thinking one season at this school and my next stop is a school with a bigger bag.  They are much less likely to find ways to make other players better.

They are mostly concerned about their own stats because more points for me means less points for other players and hopefully a better offer end of season.

where before you try to get along with your teammates who are usually your roommates because you may be together for 4 years so you might as well get along.

They know even if they stay, the NIL will have a shuffle at the end of season.  So you want to get the biggest piece of pie and may be, just may be, you want your biggest "competition" to move on.

There are schools who are doing better in this than others.  I don't know if the lack of motivation to play defense is part of this problem.  Obviously Red hasn't been able to motivate them to sacrifice for each other for the team's overall performance.

There will always be top 25 regardless.  If there is such a thing as a "synergy index" and every D1 school has 20% less synergy the ones on top will still be the ones on top, just that the cuse has a big drop off in talent, synergy and motivation all rolled together.
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