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[QUOTE="NYCSUGrad, post: 2148574, member: 971"]
I have to say that unless you are one of the REALLY big schools, with shall we say CERTAIN REPUTATIONS for not being frugal, almost every school and its fan base will complain about the recruits who disappointed them. It's just the nature of recruiting and even the big schools have kids who transferred because they were promised they would start by say sophomore year but they barely got off the bench that year because they were recruited over.

As for BJ Johnson and Ron Patterson, they were victims of the scholarship debacle. BJ had a very good year at his A-10 school and that's a tough league to play in. Ron Patterson may or may not have made a leap if he had been able to stay on the team. And Kaleb wasn't expecting to be our starting PG as a freshman, but his predecessor was drafted in the first round so Kaleb did his best.  That he didn't improve in his sophomore year might have been in part due to the fatigue level of playing 35 minutes a game when you should have been playing 10-15 minutes. You don't necessarily get a chance to rest in the summer because you have to play in leagues or you get rusty.

That's my instant analysis without getting to the recruiting board. Feel free to rebut my points.
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