re: 2019-20 Basketball (16-16) SEC CO-CHAMPIONS!

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pisses me off how well pearl recruits georgia

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Agreed.

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I really hope crean can start to keep some of those guys hoem .

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He's *got* to. Antman was the first domino, but we've got to start preventing guys from leaving Georgia for other SEC teams not named Kentucky. We'll almost always lose the guys that want to go to the Dukes and Kentuckys of the world (see: Hagans) if that's where they have their heart set on, but for the ones that don't, there's no reason for Auburn to be the destination over Athens if Crean is doing his job.

On the upside, I think he *knows* this, because one of the top criticisms he got from his stint at IU was that he sucked at instate recruiting and pissed off the HS and AAU coaches, so he was pulling great talent but had to look outside the state for it (at least according to my IU buddies). Thus some of the hires that he made to make sure the relations in state are strong.

It won't be an overnight swing, but over the next couple of cycles, hopefully we see an adjustment to that trend. Though to be fair, as someone else mentioned, we likely have a limited amount of space in the next class at a minimum maybe the next 2, due to the size of last year's freshman class.