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Sam "Ace" Rothstein
I'm not Steve Forbes (no really), but I look at it as kind of a 3 year plan... And I expect that's how he's looking at putting the roster together.
Year 1 ('20-21) is about re-recruiting most of the roster and filling in the gaps w/ grad transfers (and/or maybe an under the radar or reclassifying '21 HS recruit) so that you can put a competitive team on the floor and maybe surprise some folks. Along with that, you bring in traditional transfers that fit with what you are trying to do in Year 2 ('21-22), because even if you hit a home run w/ the '21 recruiting class, they are still all going to be freshmen. So obviously you are recruiting the heck out of '21 with the pitch of being a part of something special and rebuilding a once proud program. And then, by Year 3 ('22-23) you have a mix of talent in a number of different classes and greater success on the floor to keep the momentum in recruiting going.
I realize none of that is rocket science, but my main point is that Year 1 is more of a scramble (for a lot of reasons), while Year 2 (and definitely Year 3) are where you really put your program together.
As Forbes says, your identity as a team can come right away, but it takes some time to build a culture.
We could potentially have 7 transfers on this roster... No way of knowing how many of them will be eligible right away, but that is a lot of new players entering a new program. Will be very interesting to see how they all mesh together... And who gets minutes.
Year 1 ('20-21) is about re-recruiting most of the roster and filling in the gaps w/ grad transfers (and/or maybe an under the radar or reclassifying '21 HS recruit) so that you can put a competitive team on the floor and maybe surprise some folks. Along with that, you bring in traditional transfers that fit with what you are trying to do in Year 2 ('21-22), because even if you hit a home run w/ the '21 recruiting class, they are still all going to be freshmen. So obviously you are recruiting the heck out of '21 with the pitch of being a part of something special and rebuilding a once proud program. And then, by Year 3 ('22-23) you have a mix of talent in a number of different classes and greater success on the floor to keep the momentum in recruiting going.
I realize none of that is rocket science, but my main point is that Year 1 is more of a scramble (for a lot of reasons), while Year 2 (and definitely Year 3) are where you really put your program together.
As Forbes says, your identity as a team can come right away, but it takes some time to build a culture.
We could potentially have 7 transfers on this roster... No way of knowing how many of them will be eligible right away, but that is a lot of new players entering a new program. Will be very interesting to see how they all mesh together... And who gets minutes.
