What most of you don’t understand is that those diamonds usually don’t “shine” until year 3 or 4. Dak himself didn’t do anything worth paying for until year 4.The problem now is that if we find a diamond in the rough, after we let it shine, someone else will come in and buy the diamonds at market price. We need to go another direction in this new era, we need to figure out a Moneyball type strategy. Maybe just recruit the portal and go after some numbers methodology similar to what the Moneyball guys did in baseball. Maybe they’re too ugly, or gay, or autistic, or have one arm, or whatever. If we don’t discover this underdog NIL and transfer portal talent gap neutralizer, someone else will.
Most of these guys are not RaRa, and break out in year 2. And it’s pretty obvious RaRa was on course to make a bad decision before Leach died, because he left before then. With the way it worked out with Arnett, maybe it was best he go to Georgia.