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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5565988, member: 40"]
I am very high on George, and hope he is here next year.  Stability at PG is great, when you have a top notch college PG.  So I agree, it is fantastic to potentially have him back running the show next year.

And sometimes you are right.  In 1995, we recruited wunderkind Stephon Marbury, who jilted us for Georgia Tech.  That "forced" us to turn the reins over to fifth-year senior Lazarus Sims, who helped lead the team to the national championship game.

Would we have gotten there with Marbury?  No way to know -- but odds are against it.  Maybe Marbury would have played alongside Z, as the 2, and it would have worked.  Or maybe he would have been handed the reins from the jump, and let us to the F4 because he was just that good.  Or maybe he would have been undisciplined like you suggest, and the team wouldn't have gotten as far as it did with a more experienced PG like Z at the helm.  No way of knowing.  But I think most SU fans aren't unhappy with how it worked out.

That said, I can't think of any SU fans that would turn their nose up at landing a top 5 recruit.  Especially when landing that recruit would essentially guarantee Red returning next season.
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