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[QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 2061443, member: 1091"]
The focus inside SUAD has changed from basketball to football since Gross was fired.  Gross literally destroyed the football program to build up other Olympic sports and gutted the football program to do so.  Coyle and especially Wildhack are pro football much more or at least as much as basketball.  Dollar investment has increased dramatically for football including paying the football coach more than the basketball coach (nonsense like this was going on for more than a decade).  Investment in Olympic sports is now locked or reduced.  Dome reno is only stumbling block due to NY state funds drying up due to COR disaster (we were within a few months of a major announcement).

Regarding recruiting, Babers did not add bodies just for he sake of filling up the number of open scholies - he's going to pocket them if he can't get the level and type of player to compete in the ACC.  Very positive here as he could have easily added 5 more kids.  You should be very very happy about this logical recruiting development Tipp.

Regardless, we did get a huge improvement in the D - according to those close to the program, the kids are taller, faster and bigger and the last kid DB transfer late in the day from ND was a huge get (3 to play 3?)  He's my kid to watch this year.  Some of these older JUCO kids will help to balance the D with older mature coupled with the younger kids.  The only position I hope they pick up is another JUCO or Xfer DT and I'm happy with the entire class.  Or convert one of the OL to DT since we seem to have an abundance of younger OL now.
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