Re: I think it's pretty cool that Clemson Football

clemsonbluejay · 2025-04-07T15:40:46.445Z

has the best player retention in the country. I am proud of Dabo and the staff for what they have been able to accomplish. I hope other coaches at Clemson will try something new to replicate what Dabo is able to do.

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Houston Basketball Coach Kelvin Sampson explains his and Dabo's approach

Apr 7, 2025, 12:34 PM

to building their programs through high school recruiting and development, why they don't have to replace so much of their production from the transfer portal every year, and why they may have the best player production retention rate in the country.

"All the great cultures have kids that will play for something bigger than themselves. In this day and age we have 8 out of our top 10 players return. The year before it was the same thing. We've had 3 players transferred in the last 10 years that were in our top 10 players. We haven't lived in the portal, although we do believe in the portal. But, we have kids that when they come in as freshmen, they become sophomores, juniors and now they're seniors. Our senior class this year, last year were juniors and they were held accountable by the seniors that are gone. Now that they are seniors they are fully bought into the things that we believe in."

Wouldn't that be something if Houston and Clemson won the two biggest sports' biggest prizes this year with the recruit high school players into your culture and develop them approach that is so rare in College Football and Basketball these days.

While Houston has a large enrollment, I'm not sure that Clemson is the right place to try and simply duplicate how the biggest universities in the country do it.

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