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[QUOTE="two3zone, post: 2180123, member: 3651"]
Ennis was also with that Patterson class.

Would could have kept BJ Johnson, we chose to show him the door, what did we do with the scholarship?  We gave it to a guy who didn't play the next year and has looked like a stiff.   That's poor scouting on the staff in both regards and could have been avoided.

Are the ratings a little bit of a crapshoot, sure.  Are they a perfect judge of talent?  No.   But do they mean something?  ABSOLUTELY.  There is a reason why UNC was in two straight finals, there's a reason UK, Duke, and Kansas are always in a mix.  There's a reason why our best regular season team ever was as good as it was, they get legit recruits.

We're not Butler, we're not Creighton, we're not Gonzaga, we haven't had a pipeline of never ended 4 year players that grow within a system.  We get one or two good guys and fill very mediocre players around them the past few years and it shows.  The main guys leave and the supporting cast can't support anything and that's why the trend is going downwards.

Call me whatever you like, but we lost White, Gillon, Lydon, Roberson and Coleman.  Two of the guys didn't play much but they played a bit.

Tell me how the roster constructed now matches a guy who broke the record for threes in a season by a SU player,  replace Lydon who people are down on for some reason but put up an excellent season, Gillon is replaceable but I don't think Frank holds his jock strap.

We had a solid team when we lost to Dayton in the tourney a few years back, that team hit I think 1 shot outside of the paint that game, outside of Battle and maybe Brissett I don't know if we have anybody on the roster that is capable of having a consistent jumper.   Factor in that we again have a many brand new guys getting minutes in a complex defense.   This could be a awful year.  I'd like to think positive but with what has been assembled I just don't see it at all.
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