portal opened, our hoops roster got cleaned out faster than a Walgreens in San Francisco. He whiffed on Matt Campbell and went into fire drill mode and overpaid 2-3X above market for a poorly configured football staff. For hoops, it goes back prior to what you where saying. He had very little in place to lock in last year's guys. You can say that we can't outbid Ole Miss or Miami for Pedulla or Kidd, but we can't keep decent reserves around - like M J Collins or Buchanan? Whether or not the NIL guys can officially work with the schools, it seems to work that way at a lot of other places. People on this board who seem to know what's going on, said that hoops money got shifted to football. Well, too much of it did. You can say that Mike Young might not be eager to sell or recruit, but we all knew that might be his one deficiency. If so, isn't it the AD's job to look at an otherwise fine parking lot with one pothole and fill it in? But no, he didn't. The obvious place where anyone who have been following this suspected there might be a problem Whit didn't step up. If I asked anyone on this board the same question four years ago, you could have anticipated this. It is sure seems like bad management. NIL should be an opportunity for VT to elevate its bball program, since we don't usually have a lot of talent, instead it is going backwards. If your worried your house might have a fire, should you focus on the kitchen or the backyard?