re: #BasketballSchool lands Chuma Okeke and now has #1 2017 class

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Some cherries on top to help sell it all would be:
- nice shiny new state of the art facilities

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This is bigger than people realize. Unless you have an older historic place like Cameron Indoor, Rupp or something like that, if it's not new and shiny, they don't want it. An investment like that shows these kids that the school is serious about improving the program. Then add someone like Pearl on top of that and it starts to really snowball.

All it takes is a couple players to make any team in the SEC one of the best 2 or 3 teams in the conference. You'll always have Kentucky at the top and then there are some like Florida and Ark that rise up every now and then, but there's really no others teams that are consistently up there other than Kentucky. And you can see how important a coach is in this league when you look at the drop off of Florida after Donovan left. They just don't have the same type of players they were getting under him.