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[QUOTE="HarrisonJBounel, post: 413023, member: 1760"]
You make some excellent points.  UK got out ahead of the curve, and perfected the "one-and-done" strategy.  Some may hate Cal and UK for this, but you cannot deny at this point that they have implemented this strategy better and before anyone else.  For the foreseeable future, they are going to get the best players available every year, and most of them are going to be done in one year, and they will reload every year.  Unless they are doing something grossly illegal, I for one have to admit that this is an excellent strategy if you have the right resources to commit to it.
 
It would be very difficult to compete with UK directly with this strategy.  But this does leave some opportunity to implement, as you astutely comment, a "two-and-done" strategy where second-tier recruits (those ranked, say, 11-50, or 21-60, whatever) go to a place like SU, develop for a year (at the age of 18-20, one year can mean enormous improvement in all phases of development), and compete on a comparable level to UK.  You may land a 5-star recruit (eg, Coleman, McCullough, Carmelo, Waiters) and make a push for the top. 
 
I think our move to the ACC plays a huge role here.  Sentimentally, I hate leaving the Big East, but there is nothing like the ACC for basketball, year-in, year-out.  I'm sure that has a lot to do with our increased recruiting success.
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