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Message: [QUOTE="Francis03, post: 683061, member: 195"] You make fair points and I always welcome a difference of opinion because we're all entitled to one. Ennis and Roberson were plan A guys who the staff busted their behind for. The staff was very high on Vonleh a few years ago but things shifted after that and the staff never really seemed to be in the mix heavy with him again. They went into the summer last year pushing for both Roberson and Jermaine Lawrence. Lawrence's recruitment had a bunch of behind the scenes nonsense that had turned the staff off and from August on they turned their attention solely on Roberson. BJ played well in the summer circuit and the staff got to see him up close at their elite camp to get a better feel for him and felt that he fit in the sleeper Hak Warrick(not the player but lack of national buzz) type of recruit, who could be a gem down the road. There wasn't any great centers in 2013 class that the staff went after and I wouldn't classify Obokoh as a plan B, but more of a luxury 4 year program type of player like BMK. As Cusetown mentioned, we were one of the heavy favorites for Dakari in 2014, but he surprised everybody and reclassified in the fall of last year. Obokoh was already committed and with DC2 and Rak already in the fold, the chances of us landing him was pretty much slim. Young was a late push as cusetown noted and we didn't even get into the picture until late last summer. JB took a swing and missed but it was basically a waste of time because the kid always favored UK for the longest. Cal only hesitated taking a commitment from him early because there was academic concerns with him. The staff spent no time recruiting Wiggins and Randle so there isn't much to say there. The only recruit that I can say that the staff really wanted that was realistic and missed out on was Rysheed Jordan, who surprisingly didn't commit after midnight madness and they decided not to wait on him and settled on the plan B which was Buss Patterson. [/QUOTE]

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