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[QUOTE="Antiprodigy, post: 2594884, member: 582"]
Braswell on the team is the difference between being on probation and being finished with probation.

The odds are high that he will be a 3-4 yr player.  He is thin, but skilled.  He has lots to work on, but when you are on probation, you don't have enough scholarships that you can afford to take a player like this and develop him.
Now that probation is essentially over, you can afford to take the talent and develop him.  These are the kinds of players that smooth out ups and downs in the program.  If he is patient enough, I predict that he will be a high impact player as a senior, and possibly as a junior as well.  He could be a starter, or key 6th man, depending on the recruits that come in.  Despite what many of you say, JB is an elite developer of players.  Amongst the best in the business.  They improve because of him, not despite him.  As long as they listen to him.

As I have said countless times on this board, losing the ability to offer scholarships to these types of players is what probation is designed to do.  The loss of opportunity to them is the primary impact.  This leaves the program with a razor thin margin to maintain relevancy.  If you miss on just 1-2 kids, your program will slide.  These kids give you the ability to miss (as [U]all[/U] coaches will) sometimes.

This is what has happened to SU.  Despite the common theme amongst a certain group of people on the board.  You need perfection to stay elite, and no one is perfect.  But hey, you keep up the theme that JB has lost it.  You keep up the theme that the assistants suck.

SU is unfettered again, they will be back, and now be able to do some damage to the ACC.
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