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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2037004, member: 966"] Good work, but, yeah—critiquing the time frame... choosing 9 years—why? Ease? These statements are at odds with the conclusion and rationalization: "our recruiting is very consistent with where it’s always been... history points towards us never getting top 10 kids" Always, meaning just the past 9 years? Before that, we [I]did[/I] sign top 10 players. Off the top of my head, Pearl, DC1, Billy New O, Winfred Wherefore Art Thou Walton—back when Jimmy was 'hungry,' wasn't lazy, wasn't narcoleptic and aviophobic, and before the Curse of GMac. If you take only the past nine years, the period during which JB has been his oldest, that's like saying i've wasted more time online in the last 25 years than i did in my first 25. "[B]We can’t develop players properly because of some example pointing towards Rakeem Christmas taking 4 years"[/B] I don't believe you're taking this argument in proper context. Firstly, it's just one example, which can't prove or disprove anything. But, the point about Christmas, i thought, was that you can't credit Hopkins for his development, because he started out at a high level as a McD player, then didn't meet expectations, and then finally did, at the end. So, he if he had "it" to start, where was "it" for three years, and how do you credit development, when "it" was there all along, and if "it" was there all along, what was suppressing it for three years? The criticism is 'what took so long?' That's not an indicator that we [I]can't[/I] develop players. It's that you can't say Christmas is proof that we [I]can[/I]. I don't know if i wrote this previously or if it was in something that i wrote and then discarded before posting, but this all (recruiting 'trends') reminds me of the global warming debate. Some people say it's a destructive trend. Some people say it's all part of the natural course of variance. The perspective seems to depend on the individual's agenda, because there can't be an empirical 'truth.' We can't experience it two ways, so there's no way to know. One truth is that we used to have the best/most talent in the conference, on a regular, consistent basis. That was back in the Big East. That is not true in the ACC. When we were the premier program in our conference, we could absorb a down year or two. I kinda feel like we can't absorb as much now, and at some point, after too many years at .500/middle of the ACC pack, it might become a matter of greater permanence. Does "relax" mean you expect JB to deliver a 'final four' a la Airn Rodgers this year? [/QUOTE]

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