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[QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 4948950, member: 7237"]
What makes you think the program has the upper hand in these talks?

Is there a long line of better players waiting in line to come join the cuse that we need some the slots for?

The program have been on a downward slide for years.  We are simply not relevant nationally anymore.  We kind of lived on the largest BB attendance and a HOFer coach for a while and those are no longer primary considerations for many recruits.  Fewer and fewer players who grew up "always wanted to play for the orange".

NIL and the portal has changed the game forever.  You simply can't operate with the mindset of "we will keep A B C D E players and replace  G H I with better players".  At the end of every year is the musical chairs all over the game, it's more likely then not that the players you want to keep are either testing for NBA waters despite not being ready or asking for more NIL money that the coaches are trying to arrange, and then you are half a dozen players who left other programs who have expressed interests because they do not fit their former programs and may or may not fit here but you have to roll the dices on because you don't know who might end up staying or leaving.

The end result is everyone is probably going to get a talk, then will be like 2 months of chaos.
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