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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 2148848, member: 1958"] This is a 180 from your last excuse for the staff but isn't accurate either. It's unrealistic to think just because we want a kid that they will 100% of the time come on board. I'm well aware of that. I have no problem and do not hold the staff accountable one bit if we lined things up, put our best foot forward and the kid just decides another program is a better fit for him. It happens a lot more than it doesn't. No problem with that at all and you'll never see me complain for one second about those situations. Only qualm I have with us missing on Quade is how irresponsible it was to cut ties with all back up plans but that's been discussed plenty. What is a different situation is when we are recruiting a kid and don't put our best foot forward with our approach and see a very attainable elite talent go elsewhere. For example like what I stated before, have a 5 star swing man from a nearby recruiting hotbed in our self restricted recruiting region, grew up an SU fan, has us in his final group and shortly before he is deciding to commit to a school says he hasn't heard from us in awhile and doesn't know if we want him as a part of our program. That's not doing a good job and putting yourself in the best position possible to close the sale of your program. And based on your description of your approach to sales at IBM you would agree that what transpired is not putting yourself in the best position possible for a successful outcome. Situations similar to these are the catalyst for my frustrations in our recent recruiting efforts - the self inflicted missteps. I think Red is a GREAT member of the staff. I wish we utilized him much more than we did for the important 2017 class. I like the hire of Griffin. I think from a recruiting perspective if we're going to focus on the northeast like we have been I am hopeful he and Red can tag team that NY/NJ area and get some quality talent into the program. I've been fortunate to know him a little bit back when he was just out of college and back in Syracuse and think he is a great guy who I like representing our program. I like too that he has experience and has worked hard and proven himself as being a good assistant coach on this level prior to being added to the staff and given an inordinate amount of recruiting responsibilities. [/QUOTE]

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