Agree, I hit rock bottom after Okojie left last year but it led to me totally resetting my expectations and now I 1) hope we can keep guys like Maddox last year, and Haynes this/next year but knowing they very well may not be back, and 2) being excited about incoming transfers, and 3) maybe we will get some HS kids good enough to play that Power5 doesn't take b/c of their transfers in.
The pro and con is that you can replace just as much as you lose, but it is really hard to keep a core together and you can be really good one year with lots of players able to return the next only to see a mass exodus and become a bottom feeder.
But going from a bottom feeder to a contender is just as doable.
It appears Tony excels at building a culture and recruiting guys that fit that culture, for the most part. I think that helped keep Maddox, and will help keep top players like him that are offered more to transfer up.
A10 is a great spot to get transfers down and transfers up, so our potential talent pool is almost the entire rest of the Country, not a bad place to be. Thankfully we are not in the CAA.
