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Message: [QUOTE="iommi, post: 2235004, member: 249"] There were a ton of guys who said no to us. It's not like there is a list that is made public of exactly what our preferences are position by position. You could make educated guesses based on how much time we put in, when the offers were extended and other factors. On top of that, you can't really say if guys like Sidibe were recruited at certain positions. All players are different with varying skill sets. Sidibe will likely play a lot center this season but in high school he played the 5/4. He played the bottom wing of the zone and the middle of the zone. Sidibe is regarded as a 5/4, so would you like me to list the 4's or the 5's that we probably would've taken ahead of him? Same with Brissett. He's a 3/4. I think the staff loves both of those guys so I'd prefer not to say we wouldn't taken certain players over them. You are all about being classy to recruits (rightfully so) but you want me to list whom the staff targeted over Sidibe and Brissett? I'm not going to play that classless game but we lost out on plenty of forward and center targets. Every school does. Duke didn't get Kevin Knox when everyone thought they were sure to get him. Then they took Tucker, hurting us in the process. It happens. Needless to say, there were a good bunch of forward and center types who chose to go elsewhere. Were those guys higher in our pecking order? Some almost certainly were. That said, we have a nice class but we missed out on two top PG targets, several wing targets, and a few bigs as well. Again, I won't say we would've preferred this guy over Brissett and that guy over Sidibe. And we are not off to a good start in 2018, since Swider just said, "yes" to Villanova. If you want to find out who turned us down, the answers are on the recruiting board. But I'm not going to take any comments you make about our choices seriously when you don't follow it and then parachute in with an uninformed opinion. [/QUOTE]

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