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[QUOTE="Janner, post: 2187624, member: 739"]
I like this pick up as well, and I think your right, to some extent the paradigm for Syracuse recruiting has changed a bit recently. It could have been for the factors you had mentioned, could have been probation, could have just been the college basketball landscape.

Looking at Hughes you have a 6'5 kid who gain 20-25lbs of solid muscle in his freshman year while playing D1 basketball, I don't think many know just how hard that is to do, I don't care how good a S&C program you have (and ECU's is not that good).  Im sure the kid worked hard but can I promise you, the reason has much more to do with genetics than anything else, which leads me to believe he is/was a "late bloomer".  So he's bigger, stronger, faster and more athletic than he was in High School, and his HS highlight real from an athletic stand point was impressive.  We also have to take note of all the resources he has at Syracuse he'll have 19 more months do develop before he has to contribute. That's a TON of time to improve and learn the system.

This also doesn't mean we are going to stop recruiting guards. I fully expect us to go after a stud 2018 pg/combo guard.  And it doesn't hurt our selling point telling a 2018 stud his competition is a transfer from ECU who averaged 8 ppg.
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