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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2170874, member: 40"]
Patterson was a COMBO guard who was congenitally incapable of shooting.  What you seem to not be grasping is that we brought in two guards in that class.  Your logic about Ennis being ranked higher than Morris applies to Morris being rated substantially higher than Patterson.  Why not add Morris--who bent over backwards letting the staff know that he wanted to come here and was fine playing behind Ennnis--instead of Patterson?

It also highlights what has become an increasingly problematic dynamic with how the staff approaches recruiting.  Locking in on one recruit at a key position of need can and does backfire.  Just because it worked with Ennis, doesn't mean that we wouldn't have been better off the next three years with Morris being the Scoop to Ennis's Flynn [early entrant].  Our current approach isn't a smart strategy, and has begun to yield unfavorable impacts / outcomes with alarming frequency in recent classes.

One more important thing to mention about Morris--he lit up the Select summer camp our program runs every summer.  Absolutely killed it.  He and his mom were shocked that his performance didn't garner an offer.  He went on to have an all American career at ISU.  The coaching staff blew it on that one.
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