It looks like another star has his eyes set on tobacco road. What will it take to keep guys like this at home? It seems like we only get 1 or 2 every ten years. Its next to impossible to win if we can't consistently keep that talent home.
G.G. Jackson
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Roll the clock back 51 years to the 8-member ACC with all charter members still in the league + UVA.
Unfortunately I agree. People like to harp on Frank Martin but not even Frank McGuire was very successful recruiting here after we left the ACC. Eddie Fogler was very successful before he came to USC, had a little success for a while winning the regular season title but just could not consistently recruit enough talent to keep winning.
And IIRC upset McGee for making the honest assessment that we should expect to make the NCAAs one out of every 4 years.
I'm not worried about Jackson going to unc or duke. He'll likely only stay in college one year, wherever he goes. We need good players, and we recruit SC players, but in the end, it does not matter where the players come from. It only matters if they are good enough to win at USC. The only way I know to get good SC players to come to USC is to win a lot. If we do that, maybe they will want to come. Or maybe they won't. I stopped worrying about getting instate talent long ago.
Fogler p***d me off by cancelling future series with UnCarolina. That didn't help things.
Today's watered-down ACC isn't the same as it was during our time in the league and for about 25 years after we left it, i.e. when they expanded beyond F$U,
I remember when that happened. The rift between Fowler and McGee was never more pronounced than it was then.
EDIT: FOGLER. My autocorrect simply doesn't like Eddie's last name.
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Maybe need to get some NIL money to GG will keep him home. Any car dealers out there that are basketball fans???
We went to the Final 4 with PJ Dozier and Sindarius Thornwell. Needed to follow that up with Zion Williamson and Ja Morant. Instead we got an endless stream of Frank Booker
Compared to what we've got now, yes. I would hope to get to every 2 out of 5 years with a new coach.