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Message: [QUOTE="jordoo, post: 2233089, member: 569"] It's an interesting statistic but it doesn't really paint a clear picture. For instance Duke's first line they went 2/6 in the top 100 offers. How many guys did they want to take? Were some of those offers conditional? They could have gotten there top 2 choices who were both top 15 players and they get a 33% rating when in reality the class was a big win. Or they could have gotten the 2 lowest rated guys who were options C for them. Again we have no idea how many open ships they had. I think you can see where a team like SU or Duke (Who don't throw out a million offers) have missed on there primary targets based on the overall number of top 100 offers. If you are taking only 2 or 3 top 100 guys but offered 10+ you likely missed on at least a couple plan A guys. A team like NcSt under Godfried is almost like a throw away score for this stat because they are offering a 5th of the top 100 every season which is ridiculous. The one thing that this shows clearly is that SU didn't get any of the kids we initially had as option A for 2017. In a class where we basically needed to bring in players at every position we probably missed on option A and B for all of them. We offered 12, where involved with even more that we didn't offer and wound up with none. I actually feel like we scrambled beautifully to wind up with what we did. It could have been much worse the way things were headed. But we were certainly scrambling, no doubt about it. Brissett is the player of the year in Canada and simply isn't rated in the states. He's a top 50 kid if he played in the states. Sidibe is a kid that is just coming into his own. I thought he was rated by some services in the top 100 but I could be wrong. He's a good fit for our system and should be able to provide minutes right away. Washington was on the all Canadian 1st team with Brissett so he's no slouch and he seems like one of those kids we will be thrilled with in a couple of years. Dolezaj would have been a top 100 guy in the states no question. Where in the top 100 is hard to say but he's a legit talent. Add Thorpe and Hughes and we plugged some holes very well for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. [/QUOTE]

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