Sobeit. I'm confident that we'll be able to get the tools that we need even without players who can't stand the idea of playing with hard enough effort on the court that they'll need to refresh on the bench throughout the game. If the system that's going to get us back to winning is a no-go for them, then I'd rather win without them than lose with them...
And looking at the talent we were able to get in over the offseason, I'm not too worried about the top end of our teams anyway. And there is a flip side also to losing some recruits to the system for this reason: we'll also win and keep some solid basketball players on our team who can feel secure knowing that even if they aren't top 6-7 on the team, they'll still see solid minutes per game, able to prove themselves in gametime as a player who should get even more minutes, rather than getting stuck on the bench at a lot of other Power conference schools. Those girls are much less likely to transfer away when the transition to SEC ball proves challenging for them, because the minutes are distributed amongst the top 12 players anyway.
In fact, let me ask you directly, newladyvolfan. What do you think about the roster that the coaching staff built for this season? Those players, including those who thought about leaving but chose to stay, had to be recruited. And it seems like we're doing quite well on that front.