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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2643221, member: 837"] I'm not sure I get the no excuses thing. I mean, how do you judge recruits (not you personally but anyone)? So if Braswell ends up being a solid 3 or 4 year player is that a win for JB or do we blame him in part for Bazely's decision? Is Dolezaj a win or is it bad that we missed out on our top targets even though we ended up with a really solid multi-year (hopefully 3 or four) player? For me personally, I think the Quade situation sucked. Not sure if I blame the staff, per se, or not but it sucked and we obviously got hurt by that a bit. Washington is interesting but certainly not the best we could have done with that particular scholarship. But a lot of the other stuff to me just falls under the natural bi-polar world of basketball recruiting these days. Things change so quickly and if you're flexible and OK with the fact that you may have to go into the season with Plan E instead of Plan A or Plan B with your roster, then you're in good shape. Obviously the blue bloods don't have to live this way and you want to be closer to the nova model than what we've been (thin and no continuity), but it's easier said than done. Anyway, my point is, I'm not totally sure what grade to put on the past four years or so. We've still been really competitive and produced NBA talent, yet it's felt like there's a lot of scotch tape and bubble gum used on the roster. Is that a situation where you blame the coaches or a situation where you give them credit? Anyway, just don't know that I agree that this one year is a do or die scenario because I'm not even sure that long-term a guy like Akok or Guerrier (if they are one and done athletes) helps or hurts long term. It's a weird world. [/QUOTE]

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