Blue bloods filling up with proven talent will also lessen the demand for HS players. At our level, We could be in the running for a lot better players right out of highschool than we have in the past. We’ll just need to be prepared for them to leave after a productive year. There’s stilll room for teams like ISU to maneuver and find our place, and luckily we have a coach that seems to excel at recruiting, and wants to be here long term.
Team cohesion, roster management and implementing your system in a short amount of time will be very important in our new reality of massive roster turnover.