I could be wrong Herndon -- there are many people who follow recruiting more closely than I do -- but I don't see his old-school approach as a great draw for kids who prefer the open-court style of today's AAU.
Given the increased emphasis on freedom of movement, I wonder how successful those old UNCW teams would be with all the bumping and hand-checking they used to do.
Not to mention, I'd really rather not hire another failed ACC retread. Been there, done that, got the "Fire Paul Hewitt" T-shirt.
So, this is actually kind of what I'm talking about. I am of the belief that you don't recruit your way to success at the mid-major level. If you're trying to recruit guys who are just much better players than the other teams in the A-10, well those guys most likely aren't going to go to Mason, they're going to go to a P5 team.
You win at the mid major level by player development and system. Like, yes, there are exceptions, but you can't count on outrecruiting guys at your level forever when there's a higher level.
At the ACC level, yes, that absolutely matters, because you CAN just out-recruit guys. At clemson, they play slow it down ball and guys who want to go more up and down will go to Duke. At Mason, I don't think it hurts you. Right now were seeing what happens when you try to play AAU ball at the mid-major level; you get a steaming heap of dog poop.
I'm not trying to insult, btw, I totally get your point, I just think that at the MM level, your money is best spent on system and coaching, as opposed to recruiting.
