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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2231656, member: 40"] Just a silly post from beginning to end. You'd rather have us lose an important recruit to score points on a message board, rather than have the team you ostensibly root for get that recruit? Okay... To Dasher's point above, wishing Hop ill will is bizarre. Guy gave his heart and soul to the program, and I'll be rooting for him [as a distant second] to have success at UW. But focusing on him landing Wright is like worrying about the symptom instead of the actual PROBLEMS we're having right now with recruiting -- and that's what posts like yours fail to recognize. Hopkins is FAR from the biggest issue we have on the recruiting trail, which is why so many aren't focused / preoccupied with it. In no particular order, here are things that SU fans should probably be far more worried about than Hopkins offering Wright and Porcelli, or the prospect of losing some future recruiting target to him: [LIST] [*]The old man's declining presence / effort on the recruiting trail in recent years [*]Boeheim's personality and how it turns off AAU coaches [*]Boeheim's personality, and how he relates to millenials [even as an HOF'er] [*]Our recent proclivity to put all of our eggs in one basket at key positions of need, despite how it has burned us [*]Whether or not the returning coaches [including Red, who I love] will have the chops on the recruiting trail that Hopkins did [*]How the spectre of JB's pending, ambiguous retirement might cause some kids to look elsewhere [/LIST] Choosing to focus on those issues instead of Hop isn't "arrogance" at all. Wright was a quality prospect. We would have taken him in 2017, if he'd been willing to reclassify. But he didn't and we moved on. That he quickly changed his tune for Hop / UW should demonstrate clearly that we had basically no shot at signing him. Otherwise, he would have taken any of numerous opportunities to play down Route 90 not far from family and friends. So anyone turning up their nose -- even given Wright's summer performance and possible declining rankings -- at him as a prospect isn't being intellectually honest. But hand wringing too much over Hopkins and how he'll "damage" future recruiting, when we might realistically only cross paths a couple of times in the future completely misses the forest through the trees. There are much bigger things to be concerned about with the state of the program's recruiting. That's why I'm not nearly as worked up over losing a player to Hopkins a month after we filled all of our allotted scholarships for the class of 2017 as you seem to be. [/QUOTE]

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