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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1415968, member: 40"] Iommi, didn't mean to call you out in that last post. Short version: Bryant wasn't that interested in SU, and informed the staff that he wasn't interested because we didn't put bigs in the pros. The coaching staff worked hard to change that opinion, but Bryant was stubborn and didn't want to hear it. Despite that, his Mom loved SU, and actively was working behind the scenes to convince him to come to SU. The coaching staff wanted Bryant, and recognized that Mom was the only way they might be able to swing the pendulum Orange, so they focused all of their efforts there. So it wasn't so much that they stopped recruiting Bryant / dropped the ball by not keeping in contact--they were actively in contact the whole time, just with his mom. [/QUOTE]