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[QUOTE="iommi, post: 2235316, member: 249"]
Ha.  Our coaches obviously love all the players who sign NLI's but they love some guys we offer more than others. You know this. Jeeze.  I didn't say we settled for OB or BS.  Settled would be way down our list.  I never said they were.

Okay, I'll bite and name a few names that everyone who follows recruiting would know would be higher up our list.  We were going to sign Brandon Randolph, a wing who wound up at Arizona. Now, Randolph is a wing and not even close to a 4.  Nonetheless, we would've taken him over OB if it was a one or the other deal (which it really isn't). We offered Billy Preston, who wound up at Kansas. It's not debatable that we would've taken him over OB if it was an either/ or situation.

If we call Sidibe a center, it's also not debatable whether we'd have taken Nick Richards or Mo Bamba if we could only take one guy. Those guys were two of the top centers in the country. There were several others on our list too.

HW wasn't #2, #3 or #38 after QG. He was whom we reached out to after QG chose Kentucky. HW was off our radar because we employed a stupid all-or-nothing approach with QG. We had no one under Green. We blew off guys who were on our list to try to show QG he was our guy. I'm sure you heard about that.

OB and BS were tremendous players to add to our program. Our staff identified them as underrated.  Not sure how you'd define "#1 priority" but I'm hopeful both will be great players and obviously the staff is too.
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