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That may be the big advantage of having hired a coach with a finite # of years ahead of him... a 40 year old might be thinking about long-term build.

BUT, he is at least as close to the portal as Keion!

Given the timing and lack of commitment from the portal, I think that the TJD retweet was simply saying that he was not done re-recruiting back last years players (Race had just committed and Armaan was still undecided then). I think we will add another player from the portal that can help (just a #'s thing, there are 1000+ players in the portal and maybe 100+ could help us), but I no longer think that TJD's tweet means we are going to land someone in particular (like Keion, as many thought at the time).

4. Beat Purdue again

Since we aren't getting him, they should kick the tires on Lewis.

Let's see where they are ranked after we beat them three times next year :)!

To be fair, I do not think it is Brooks Sr.'s job to keep squelching rumors that might pop up on this board. I guess we could wait for him to come out with a statement: "I'm a Lex-hole now. I eat fried chicken and raise thoroughbreds..."

Indeed, there are a few: 4 PF J'Raan Brooks RS SO 6-9 220 Washington 2 PF Jordan Brooks FR 6-6 190 Iona 3 C Nysier Brooks RS SR 6-11 245 Yes Miami Ole Miss 2 SG Payton Brooks FR 6-2 193 Abilene Christian

+1 Not a bad idea, there are plenty of top 150 players still unsigned. Given the backlog created by the extra year, it might be a good moment to buy low.

Apparently even more quickly, you are quoting yourself from 5 minutes earlier! ;)

+1 We have grown accustomed to big news happening every other day. At this stage, we may hire an assistant and may get one or two more transfers. The season does not start for 6 months... we need to start making things up :)!

+1 Difficult, but essential.

+1 If we bring back Armaan and bring in Keion (for example), our practices should be tougher matchups than three quarters of our games... that is what I want to see.

I do not disagree with any of this. I am simply saying that if our objective is a national championship in the near future we will have to transition from a team that is worried about playing time for everyone to one that has enough players to always be competitive. The problem with the way CAM recruited was that we were always a sprained ankle away from not being a tournament team. We should be a tournament caliber team with our second five. We now seem to think that CAM's approach to recruiting is gospel.

We need to deemphasize this. If CMW cannot keep players that could be starting elsewhere happy coming off the bench, then we will never be a title contender. I expect role players on our teams to be drafted in the first round in a 3-4 years.