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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1430617, member: 716"] Like everything else, a combination of factors. I believe that our failure to capitalize on 1996 hurt a lot: good recruits want to play for a winner; to lose 13 games and go to the NIT in 1997 put us right back into the post-probation situation of fighting over average recruits (we took another pretty big class in [I]1998[/I] [edit - 1997], but Allen Griffin, Eric Williams, Damone Brown, and Sam Spann weren't program-changers). Louis Orr -- great person and alumnus -- turned some people off with all the God stuff. Religion can be popular with recruits' families, but I know some thought he was over the top. Bernie...eh. Generally a good guy, but he didn't have the same cachet that some of his peers had in the late '90s. [/QUOTE]