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Message: [QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2170974, member: 285"] So I won't argue the point that we missed on Monte Morris, but looking at the timeline we had a number of guys at the time that would have factored into our decision to pursue him or not. Morris committed to Iowa State on June 27, 2012. So the decision made by the staff not to offer him was based on the roster makeup (both current players and committed prospects) at that time or earlier. - As of June 27, 2012 MCW was coming off a season where he didn't get that much run and was behind Scoop and Waiters. I don't think it was clear at that time that we would have him only one additional year. - Tyler Ennis didn't commit to SU until August 16, 2012. He didn't play for SU until 2013-14. At the time that the Morris decision was made, Ennis hadn't yet committed, but assuming we were confident we'd get him we didn't anticipate that he would have a leading role that year, much less be a one and done. - Mike Gbinije announced his intent to transfer to Syracuse in late April 2012. At the time he was a SF who I believe we anticipated would also help us at SG. He obviously was not a PG at that time. - At that time we had Cooney just coming off of his redshirt year. Morris' freshman year would have been Cooney's RS-sophomore year. - The summer of 2012, I think it is fair to say that the staff anticipated having MCW and probably Ennis on the roster in Morris' first year or two. - We also had several options at shooting guard (Cooney and Gbinije), who at the time may have projected as better shooters. - While we may have ended up with Buss, he did not factor into the decision on Monte Morris. In fact, Buss was attending summer school courses on IU's campus the summer of 2012, fully intending to become a Hoosier. For some reason, IU elected not to admit him and essentially revoked his scholarship offer, he ended up at Brewster Academy for the 2012-13 season and came to SU as a freshman in 2013-14. I don't think Buss factored into SU's decision on Morris because I believe he was committed to Indiana at the time that the decision on Morris would have been made. Back in 2011-12 season looking forward there were a heckuva a lot of moving pieces to consider and it may just be that we had other pieces that we thought would serve us better. It's easy to look back and say we absolutely should have offered Morris, but everything is clear in hindsight. [/QUOTE]

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