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[QUOTE="Oráiste, post: 1968821, member: 5974"]
I don't know how true the story is, but in my lurking days I read many times the story of the Class of 2004 Point Guard recruitment:  that Boeheim was after all three of Kyle Lowry, AJ Price and Josh Wright and told them that the first to sign would get the slot.  We all know that, as it happened, we ended up with the only bust of the lot.

Now, 2017 seems like a reverse of that:  rather than taking the first kid to accept, we let the others know that we were really only interested in Green.  Two different approaches, similar failure (at least so far, let's see what happens).

This reminds me of a book that came out last year called Foolproof: How Safety Can Be Dangerous & Danger Makes us Safe.

The idea behind the book is that sometimes "learning lessons" from a failure can actually plant the seeds for a future tragedy.  For example, one lesson of 9/11 was to harden & lock the cockpit doors.  Now, in this decade, there have been 2 pilots who have killed themselves & their passengers by using this system to lock the other pilot out of the cockpit & deliberately crash their planes.
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