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[QUOTE="TinyManInside, post: 2142013, member: 1251"]
SU is largely a program school and the quality of JB's zone is often tied to how much experience the players have playing it. It's hard to field a good zone when 4 of your 5 starters have never played it before. Continuity and cohesion is pretty important to JB's system and carrying over experienced players from year to year has been a pretty big problem lately due to the combination of players leaving school early for the draft and other players failing to develop and transferring.

The grad transfer market is tough because 1) you might be getting a kid that has only played m2m for his entire college career and now has to learn a pretty complex defensive system in a short period of time, and 2) you really have no idea who is going to be on the market starting in March/April, so the quality of the grad transfer pool can be vastly different from year to year, and you only have a small window to shop for them.

What happens if no decent 5th year PG is available? You're in a bind if you're relying on that as a primary recruiting tool. Best as a stop-gap measure or fill-in for a single roster spot but not sure it's a great strategy if it turns into an annual thing where we need to grab 2+ per year... It worked out quite well this season (we would have been TERRIBLE without Gillon and White), but it also had some downside as we saw how long it took those 2 to get comfortable in the zone.

Mason
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