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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 2117524, member: 87"] Exactly what I was saying. Reading through this thread, everyone is just in raw panic. We missed on Green specifically and several other major prospects in general this past summer and everyone is going absolutely batty. Once again, I am not saying everything is perfect, but you guys are trying to be so black and white with this. We need to consolidate and get back to getting the guys we want from the northeast. Baltimore on up. Like we did 4 - 5 years ago. We need to establish an Ontario pipeline. Right now Oregon has more Ontario players than we do. Need to lock that up. As a fanbase, we are going to have to realize that if there are tough times coming, and by definition the coaching change qualifies: we are going to have to get our heads right. It is flagging fan support that sinks programs just as much as 100% zone does. We have half our die hards (people on this site are our die hards) claiming they refuse to support the team because they are in the NIT. We have them cannibalizing our coaching staff because Quade Green decided to screw Gerry. We have people saying that the sanctions - the worst ever doled out - should be of zero impediment to our recruiting. Its absolutely nuts. On top of all that, anything positive in the program is being dismissed as a fluke while any perceived possible future negative is amplified to catastrophic levels even before it materializes. Our recruiting is so bad that we have 5 straight years of first round draft picks. Our team is so mediocre that we have an active two game win streak against Duke - who, by the way, was claimed to have the single greatest recruiting class/returning core of any team in the past 10 - 15 years this year. Everyone with a brain knows the sanctions have hurt, both materially because of what we have lost and because of the very negative perception it attaches to our program. Guys, our program is known just as much for harboring child abusers and letting the players smoke dope than we are for being a good basketball team. If you think that is something easy to overcome, and so its fine to just blame Gerry Mac for not bringing in 3 5-star guys last summer while the HOF HC is out of the country, you clearly aren't interested in reality. Do the coaches bear responsibility for those sanctions and the perception of the program - yes they do. But in light of what has happened since 2010, this program should be a smoking hole in the ground. The staff has navigated that while also producing some of the best years in the program's history. We wound up short of the NCAA by one game this year. Boo hoo. Get real and stop whining. [/QUOTE]

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