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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 405159, member: 430"] In order to land classes full of 5 star guys, year in, year out, you have to cheat. I don't care what anyone says about Calipari, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. I think JB has learned that if you you are going to pursue the 5 star one and dones full bore, and build a program around that (like Cal has at Kentucky), you have to do whatever it takes to land them, otherwise your whole model is 'ed. JB has had a lot of success taking overlooked guys that fit his system well and developing them into star caliber players, future NBA players. Warrick and Rautins come to mind immediately in that respect. The only time JB was pulling in the multi 5 star type recruit classes consistently was the late 80's and we all know how that panned out, with a recruiting scandal. I doubt JB, having 1-3 years left tops, wants to end his legacy amidst a recruiting scandal. I think that's why we've seen, in recent years, when guys we are recruiting blow up and Kentucky gets into the picture out of nowhere, we tend to leave the scene. DC was probably the exception since he was a Syracuse kid, but I tend to believe that JB learned his lesson with the dark side of recruiting the first time around and has no interest in even being associated with recruits once the $$'s start flowing. There will be 5 stars that we get involved with, that stay clean, and that we'll land, and we'll continue to use them as blocks around which to build with our lesser recruitied, system/program type players. It worked in 2003 and it will work again. You don't need a roster of 5 star players to win a championship. And on a side note - Cal will go down, eventually. He's managed to side step scandals at both UMASS and Memphis, but it will happen. [/QUOTE]

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