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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 683230, member: 1958"] You did terrible and didn't get it straight so try again. I'll try and help... 1) As Francis said the staff was watching Vonleh quite a bit then seemed to have backed off. Vonleh was in the 2014 class at the time and is the same position as McCullough. McCullough apparently was the staffs "option A" as you like to call it and we landed him. Vonleh then reclassifies to 2013. The staff tries to get back in and maybe see if they can get back in the mix, which all signs show that they were, but then Vonleh decides to go to the same school as his brother. To make it sound like Lawrence was the head and shoulders preference over Roberson isn't accurate. If you look at anything other than an ESPN rankings list you would see that Roberson is every bit the prospect Lawrence is if not better. Lawrence proved to be high maintenance, staff didn't want to deal with it so they stopped recruiting him. Not sure what is so difficult to understand about that. We then focused on and got a guy who was a top 30 player and was dominant against good competition throughout his senior year. Not to mention he fits our system almost perfectly. Got it? 2) Dakari was a strong possibility while he was still a 2014 kid. The extra year he wouldve spent in high school increased the chances of DC or Rak not being here and also BMK is no doubt gone. He reclassifies and now all of a sudden instead of us offering a roster with only one other proven center or big on it, we have one of 3 guys who just anchored the middle for a Final Four run. The situation changes. It's not just about offering the top 15 guys in every class and if we dont get them we had a bad recruiting year. It's about building a team and finding guys who fit roles. Would Dakari have been a great talent to bring in this year? Of course. But him coming in 2014 was a much better fit than him in 2013 and it showed in his recruitment and his interest.That's not even mentioning WWW spending time with Dakari and his family for a weekend then him randomly committing to UK out of nowhere. 3) Theres a difference between recruiting a kid by sending feelers out and reaching out to him a little bit, and going all out. JB doesn't like to waste his time and resources on a kid who he doesn't think he has a legitimate shot at. And just because we're listed by recruiting services doesn't mean we're going all out. By that logic, when some recruiting services didn't even have us listed for Grant when he committed does that mean Grant just committed out of the blue to a school that wasn't recruiting him or showed no interest? You can't have it both ways. Obviously they would've taken Wiggins if he wanted to come here, but it doesnt meant they went all out to recruit a kid they knew we had little chance to land to begin with. 4) Not sure why you insist on being condescending throughout your post to people trying to help you. Yea we wanted Jordan. He kept pushing back when he would commit and went from possibly committing after Orange Madness to ending his recruitment in the spring. The staff couldn't wait around for the possibility of not getting Jordan. Meanwhile we had a kid who was a good prospect, a good friend and teammate of one your sacred "option A's" that we subsequently landed, and really wanted to come here. So we took Patterson a guy who is a good fit on top of the zone and can be a solid program player who will be around 4 years. Nobody said we get all of our Option A recruits. No school does. We got Coleman over UK when he was their option A recruit. But I forgot that doesn't count. Nobody said Young wasn't good enough to come to SU. Nobody said BJ was better. Everyone pretty much knew he was going to UK for a long time before he committed. He was obviously giving signals to the staff that he was interested so they just went and did their due diligence and checked it out. They probably knew it wasn't going to be fruitful but they checked anyways. Should they have just not even bothered to go visit with him, that way there would be no confusion that we missed on an option A just because he's ranked higher than somebody? Then let me guess you're on here complaining the staff didn't go check. We're recruiting really well and it's only getting better. Just enjoy it instead of looking for something to complain about. [/QUOTE]

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