Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 1811538, member: 87"]
It occurs to me that there is a sort of parallel strategy to what UK is doing.

They recruit an entire team each year and hope that all of them go pro. This is the extreme case of the 1 and done strategy. It is is self feeding because guys who get interested in UK do so partly because they see themselves as 1 and dones.

The weakness is that your players are always the least mature physically and emotionally and have the least experience and knowledge of the game (generalizing here).

Imagine the alternate version of this, the 5 and done.

You build an entire team out of 5th year transfers every year. There appear to be enough of them to pull it off if you get the creme of the crop. I suspect you would if you became known as the destination school for the best of these type of players (as UK is for 1 and dones). Instead of have the youngest most inexperienced players, you would have the oldest and most experienced players every year. You have the same turnover as the 1 and done schools do, but you also have zero roster uncertainty (you know that they are definitely leaving after the one year instead of it just being an option for them to stay).

I'm sure nobody would commit whole hog to it like that, but I though it was an interesting thought experiment. Could you win a championship doing this?
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?