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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2657682, member: 285"]
With regard to question #2 you are mixing topics.  We don’t recruits guys based on what they might achieve in the NBA.   If you assume that the level of recruit is similar it’s irrelevant who achieves more on the professional stage, only relevant what is achieved on the college level.

Some of our all time greats were largely busts in the NBA doesn’t make them any less a college player eg. Pearl, Thompson, Moten, Flynn, Harris, CJ, Wallace, Gbinije, Christmas.

Now I won’t argue that there is huge upside to having a player who has great success in the NBA, but that’s not what we are recruiting for.

#3.  Recruiting in the ACC is different and probably more difficult for a number of reasons.  Eg we are no longer the big fish, that clearly goes to UNC and Duke.  Are away games are played in a different geography than when we were in the Big East and they were played in our recruiting areas.

But most of our recruiting while in the ACC has been done under the shadow of sanctions.  I thinks it’s hard to know whether we will fare better than we have in the ACC, or whether what you’ve seen is what you’re going to get until we are a few years post sanctions so you have multiple years of no sanctions recruiting results to use in any evaluation.
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