Any Guesses on the Top 40 Program Coach Who Will No Longer Recruit HS Players but Will Live in the Transfer Portal?
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Good luck with that. Lack of team chemistry will prevent them from achieving ultimate goals unless they’re picking up the best of the best which is unlikely.
Yep, posted that my guess was Arkansas in the lounge earlier this week
They said Top 40. So Nebraska is out
I'm not surprised some schools will try this moving forward. I just don't know why any coach/program would shoot themselves in the foot by turning their back on HS players, especially local talent.
Iowa State. In Fraschilla's mind, Iowa State is a top five program.
Adams of TT is my pick. He just seems like a BB recruiting scavenger who will go year to year to try to compete vs KU Texas and Baylor.
This year you should attribute that more to the coaching change.
I generally agree. If there is, indeed, a major program coach who intends to quit recruiting high school players, I would guess that it would be someone who doesn't have a strong supply of local/regional talent to draw upon.
Meh...
This is largely unconvincing to me. By the time they’re 17, the best players have played on multiple AAU teams and likely more than one high school team. They know how to be part of a team that hasn’t been together for years.
Team Chemistry TM has much more to do with personalities than it does duration.
Largely agree. If the coach mentioned by Frischilla is "top 40" meaning good but not getting elite talent out of high school, then it might be wise to go against the grain. You aren't going to beat Kentucky or Duke or whoever for high school talent, focus solely on transfers and try to get 7-9 good players each year who have already proven they are good college players.
It will be an interesting experiment to see what the outcome is.
It would be interesting to know how many players from the portal went to schools that recruited them out of HS.
Maybe the coach got tired of recruiting 15 year olds. I know I would,
Maybe the coach got tired of recruiting 15 year olds. I know I would,
It will be interesting to see if it becomes obvious who Fran Fraschilla was referring to
Texas Tech was my guess as well.
Just guessing, like everyone, but maybe the Texas Tech head coach thinks there's too much competition going head to head w/ Baylor, Texas, etc for HS talent & thinks the transfer portal is simply more of a sure thing
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I believe KU actually has 9 or 10 NEW players from last years roster. Not all transfers but most of them. They'd certainly be top 40 .....
Yeah but they get their fair share of one and dones that I'm sure they don't want to abandoned.
