I get your point FQ, but recruiting has changed. There aren't many high-quality players who stay at one school for all their careers, especially at mind-majors. Recruiting has to take place every year now for transfers.  I am not worried yet, but I am getting there. Retaining Lindo was at least a start.

Mike K wrote:

I thought we would have a recruit or two by now, especially considering the playing time available.  Getting a little nervous, but keep telling myself there are many players out there.  Maybe CC and staff are really concentrating on next year's class?

Today at 3:30...in 12 minutes, could be a game changer.  

Diaz brothers to Pitt together.

Today CC retweeted tweets from Pam Brown and Rex Chapman, neither of which were hoops or GW Hoops related. “Not that there is anything wrong with that” but hope he is doing it between recruiting trips.

Nobody should have held an expectation that CC would be taking any Miami players with him.  Possibly end-of-bench players who were barely seeing the court but if they're getting paid as well, game-set-match.  Larranaga is still the coach and it's not like CC was going to actively attempt to poach players from his boss of 20 years.

Merrick, while your NIL points are valid with respect to GW, we now see that even a directive is not a panacea as is being played out within Miami basketball.

Mike K wrote:

It’s been 5 days since this thread was started…now 5 days isn’t a long time, but I think it is when it is this time of year for college hoops and you have a roster like ours.

Gotta say, I’m getting a little concerned.

It would be nice to get some news soon.

Dunphy got the Drame twins from Saint Peters to commit to La Salle so I believe we are the last team in the A10 with a coaching change to not get a new player this off-season.

I am totally fine with CC taking his time, seeing what he has and what he feels he needs with the current team, and then making decisions about potentially picking up transfers.  That's a much better approach that just immediately grabbing the best players who could be available, regardless of whether or not they fit in with the scheme he intends to run, the culture he intends to create, or the needs of the current team.  There are still plenty of good players out there.  Also, I don't see this as a one-year rebuilt, so I'm not that concerned about filling out the roster this season.  If we struggle this season, but have more roster flexibility for the next couple of years, I am totally ok with that.

Everyone would be wise to reread Porter71's last two sentences and retain them for future reference.

To the extent that we ought to have some concerns right now, this has little to do with CC finding players and everything to do with finding the right players.  We can always get players.  That's not hard.  However, as more and more time elapses, and we witness players that we'd really like to play here such as the Diaz twins make plans to play elsewhere, it leaves a dwindling pool of quality recruits.  This may be less of an issue due to the transfer portal but there's no law that says we're going to successfully recruit coveted players from the portal as well.

Let's not kid ourselves.  This is not the continuation of a rebuild.  It's instead the start of yet another new rebuild.  And, like it or not, right move or not, it should again push this program at least two additional years (at a minimum) behind the prospect of respectability.

Question for everyone. It seems a little late now, but could Coach Caputo is finished recruiting?  With Bryon transferred to URI, I would hope that he'll at least add a credible point guard, if one's still available. I hate to come off as negative, but I don't see how this particular team could expect to successfully compete without a skilled point guard.