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[QUOTE="Henny & Coke, post: 1028795, member: 323"]
Consider two very similar players/prospects:

Jerami Grant:

6-8, 210 lbs, SOPH, 20 years old

13-14 stats:  31.4 MPG, 12.1 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 496% FG

Per ESPN Jeff Goodman article, NBA execs told ESPN he will likely be taken in 15-25 range.

Montrezl Harrell:

6-8, 235 lbs, SOPH, 20 years old

13-14 stats:  29.3 MPG, 14.0 PPG, 8.4 RPG, 609% FG

Per ESPN Jeff Goodman article, NBA execs told ESPN he would have likely be taken in 15-25 range.

Harrell announced this week he is returning to Louisville for his Junior year, while Grant announced he is entering the NBA Draft.

You could say that Harrell is already a better overall player than Grant is, and also has a more filled out frame/body, thus, you may expect he would be the one leaving college for the NBA this year.  Especially when you consider he has already won 1 National Championship in his time at Louisville.

Putting aside things we/the school cannot control in these decisions (like family/money influences), the thing that stuck out to me most in the ESPN article about Harrell returning were the following quotes from Rick Pitino:

"He and Wayne [Blackshear] will be co-captains next season," Pitino said. "I think he wants to come back and be a top-eight pick."

Now, I know that JB is billed as an honest, "straight-shooter" type of guy when it comes to helping kids make these decisions about entering the NBA draft, but, is that resulting in a "problem" for Syracuse?  Are we being "out-recruited" when it comes to getting our own players to stay in college?

These quotes from Pitino seem to suggest that he has no problem actively "lobbying" for his players to return to school, going so far as to name them co-captain (in April) and getting them to focus on improving their draft stock.  Is JB doing the same?
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