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[QUOTE="cuseinseattle, post: 2455087, member: 2504"]
We backed off Lonnie Walker and he said he wasn't hearing from people and at the time I figured it was because he was a strong Nova lean which is what I was hearing.  Then all of the sudden he goes to Miami who is now involved in the FBI thing.  There is a good chance the staff heard about this and backed off the kid.  O'Connell was Duke legacy and we were on him but it was over as soon as Duke took interest.  The Randolph thing is well known and Tucker probably made the wrong decision based on his heart not what made the most sense.  The reality is that once Young decided he wasn't going to UK they moved to option two and beat us for Green and then when Duke missed out on Knox they scrambled for Tucker.  If UK gets Young and Duke gets Knox then we have both Green and Tucker on this team.  That is what happened.  It happens in recruiting.  As soon as that happened every single person that follows recruiting closely knew this years team would really struggle to score.  It was unbelievable obvious.  It was always going to be a 9-9 in conference ceiling type team.  Next year we have multiple players coming in that are going to get us back to where we need to be along with a good nucleus coming back.    There are multiple kids we have missed on over the last 10 years.  For me Monte Morris who I really wanted was the biggest but Brunson and others can be discussed.  Using scholarships on Kaleb Joseph, Buss Patterson and others can be discussed to.  I was on the thought Kaleb was going to be a good player train so I can't act otherwise.  This sanctions hurt us and made mistakes like these much harder to overcome.  If you can't understand that I don't know what to say.
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