Originally Posted by bcross
This seems like a bunch of hyperbole to me.
Most of UD's recruits have P5 offers coming out of high school, but chose UD instead. Were not making our bread and butter with a bunch of no name recruits who were overlooked in high school. I'm not sure how the allure of those mid-pack P5 schools is going to increase after a couple years of playing at UD when it wasn't an issue a couple years prior.
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Maybe. But think about this. You're SS. You have an offer as a high school senior to play at Butler. Butler currently has a junior PG who is pretty darn good, no shot of starting for 2 years. And they have a current freshman PG 1 year ahead of you who is ranked as high as you. Competition is good, you're up for it (starting your sophomore season most likely). But then UD comes calling. You can play in the NCAA tournament. You can play in big preseason tournaments. You can play a very reasonable regular season schedule. And you can do it for 4 years because you'll play real minutes starting as a freshman, and maybe even start by the time you're a sophomore / junior.
What would you do? Some would go to Butler. Others would go to UD. My sense is that often we get the guy coming to UD who expects he will likely play as a freshman. As others have said, the guy coming to UD who could play major minutes as a freshman at a serious P5 school is not incredibly rare historically, but, it's not like there are 3 in every class either. It's pretty rare.
So now SS spends 3 years at UD and sees a poor recruiting class or graduating seniors. He knows he's not going to be on a great team his senior season. So he uses his transfer to play backup at a big school who's PG tore his ACL. Make a run, have some fun. What would you do?
