Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Can we stop comparing apples and oranges. Syracuse and UNC brought back numerous 5th year seniors, Grad students and Syracuse has 6th year player. Is it any wonder that they are playing at a higher level. The NCAA decision is what it is but it created the current environment which may continue for the near future.

It’s not not really about seniors, 5th year or graduate transfers, it’s about bringing in the best recruits. For the most part the programs that bring in the most high end recruits usually have the best teams. Syracuse, UNC, Northwestern consistently bring in top tier recruits. If a program does not bring in strong players they will have a hard time beating the programs that do bring in strong players. If a program can stockpile those high end recruits, keep them for a 5th year and bring in high end transfers they will be tough to beat.

Obviously bringing in the best recruits is important. But your reply reinforced what was stated. Keep top recruits till they are seniors, 5th year players and Grad transfers and your team will compete for natty. Since the scholarship cap was changed for this year does this years National Champ get an asterisk??

The top programs bring in the best players . If average programs had a bunch of 5th year players they would still have an average team. The teams you are talking about are two of the best programs with or without the 5th year players. All schools can bring in transfers and retain their 5th year players that doesn’t mean they will be competitive.