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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3780383, member: 40"] Feel free. I'm not some starry eyed fantasizer about recruit potential. Quite the opposite. And as a former regular practice attendee, I've always relied more on observation than wishful thinking when it comes to assessing player potential and their physical capabilities. Even so, I've gotten a few wrong. But I'm not one to do back handsprings over every recruit, and claim that they are going to far outshoot their rankings. There are times when I've reported back to the board from practice observations that players are much better than their rankings [examples -- CJ, Arinze], and also many times over the years when I've said that players were far worse than what I expected, irrespective of how they were rated. I'm willing to stand by my track record. Feel free to take said observations with a grain of salt or be skeptical of them. Whatevs. [/QUOTE]