Those ESPN Top 50, 5-star one-and-doners are going high major every time for a variety of reasons. All i meant with regards to getting in early was with the kids who are high 3-star, low-four prospects who will get some P5 offers like Iowa St, Minnesota, Penn State, TCU, etc... but it becomes a question as to whether they want to go there and lose all the time (but they played P5), or they can play here and win. ... Honestly, it comes down to whether or not they're a competitor at heart, or all about the flash.
Yet you might get an exception here and there
That's all I'm saying. Someday...you just never know. UK, Duke, UNC became those programs because players came and they hired great coaches. They we're'nt born blue bloods.
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Exactly - point I am trying to make. And after some exposure they won't call us James Mason or George Madison anymore.
As I said. Noone knows the future, or the heart and mind of any young man or his family. And fwiw, the programs I mentioned were merely for illustrative purposes. There are plenty of high caliber schools not named Kansas, UK, UNC, or Duke that would qualify as huge wins for Mason. UCONN, Baylor, Gonzaga, etc. along with loads of P5 schools that are perennially in the tourney. And fwiw, Duke was pretty mediocre with zero titles before coach K went there, and Dean Smith inherited an average program with one championship in '57 when the NIT was actually the bigger deal. And none of these schools had won a title or was considered a blue blood "literally 100 years" ago. The first tourney was in 1939.
Not sure I agree with your reasoning, but yes, one day a blue chipper may just decide to do it. Never say never. Lots of nevers have, in fact, happened.
The key difference there is they caught lightning in a bottle with Mark Few. Pretty much every Power 5 team has courted that guy to no avail. He simply will not uproot his family and chase opportunity; he's creating his own destination job. So not saying it's been easy, but it certainly makes ongoing success more feasible and inspires the 5-stars to keep coming when you have the same captain at the helm vs. having another guy come in and pray he maintains.
Glad someone brought this up. How many successful MM coaches have wee seen leave their program to go to a “blue blood” or level up and not have the same success? I really think Few’s example should change the model for wanting to jump. it proves you can attain prominence anywhere. Isn’t that how blue bloods are built?
