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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1615720, member: 780"]
Recruiting is an inexact science.

You don't get to bring in scads of players each year like football did in the early 1960's. You can only bring in a couple. And JB doesn't have 100%  ability to see into the future.

Sometimes these players are better than you think they were when you recruited them. Consider our recent PG from Canada.

Sometimes they are worse than you thought they would be. I can name a lot of examples of that.

Some never get any better. Some get continually better.

Cooney came in as a 3 pt specialist. He was pressed into action and had significant flaws in his game in his RS freshman year. But to his credit, he improved significantly in his RS soph year. But I think most would agree that was the level at which he remained. "Cooney is Cooney".

He makes great shots, good passes and steals the ball. But he also, under pressure, does things you wish he hadn't. Too bad we can't just get the good stuff without the bad stuff.

What has occurred on this forum is that we have people who turn a blind eye to the bad plays and a recent group that seems to have written TC off as on-balance being a liability and not an asset.

Then there's the "Everything is Boeheim's Fault" crowd which echoes the military idea that it's all the commander's fault regardless. I understand the need for that in the military as they have to assign responsibility in order to make the engine go.
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