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Message: [QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 5305599, member: 7237"] Not outside his control, now we are doing the chicken vs egg thing. Leffew agreed to come, and Georgia up the bid, Leffew wants more $, it's Red's decision to not match or raise, and save the extra $ for the out of shape Lampkin. Why Lampkin? Was Lampkin a plan A or a panic plan B? The year prior, same situation with Jesse, not matching the 800k WV gave him, we ended up with McCleod, who barely played both years. Was McCleod also a panic Plan C? Would the situation be better if we had Jesse in year 1 and Leffew in year 2? We would never know, but those are his choices, within his control. Not saying those were easy choices because paying Jesse could mean losing Judah or paying Leffew could mean no Bell, who knows, we get the benefit of hindsight, but he has a NIL budget he needs to get the players he wants and stay inside that budget. Not outside his control. Starling, Westry, McCleod, Lampkin, year 1 Cuff, all with injuries, just bad luck that they got insured or Red stockpiled injury prone players for some reason? Who knows, again he went after these players, perhaps if Westry was completely healthy we couldn't have afforded him, so Red rolled the dice and crossed his fingers and it didn't pay dividend. These are all directly or indirectly his choices. I don't envy to have to make these choices. Perhaps Red is too much of a straight shooter and felt once they shook hands on it if they reneged on it he wouldn't rework the deals out of honor, which I completely understand because I am the same way in business, your words are your words and all that. But this is way it is and these are 19,20,21 year old kids, and a successful coach in this climate may need to be a bit of a snakeoil salesman like John Calipari, and that's why Jay Wright and Tony Bennett bailed. [/QUOTE]

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