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Message: [QUOTE="pfister1, post: 9397, member: 285"] I also am not sure what everyone is up in arms about? In evaluating recruiting I think you all are looking at the wrong thing. It seems that everyone is looking at our recruiting class and grading it like Scout or ESPN would...how many 5 stars are signed up?? That is the wrong way to evaluate recruiting. I guess if you are trying to treat recruiting as a competition and determine a winner that is the only way to try to do it, but if you look at recruiting not as a competition but as a means to build a team in order to compete we should be evaluating it based what the programs needs are this year and whether are recruiting has addressed those needs. To me our current needs seem to be primarily a traditional SF to take over KJ's spot in the event that Fair or Southerland don't develop the skills necessary to play there for us and that is I all I really see as a need this year. You can argue about guys for down the road, but most very high caliber players don't want to go to a situation where they are going to be the guy their Junior year. Right now we have a McDonalds All American at Center (Melo), another that will probably be our backup PF/C (Christmas) and one that will be a back up guard (MCW). We also have a guy who will be a senior and four year starter at one of the guard positions (Triche) with a kid who people thought could possibly have been a McD's AA (Waiters) and a USA Basketball Qualifier (Cooney) also at the guard position. Where are we going to recruit these kids to play? I guess in addition to taking guys to fill needs you'll always take guys like a Drummond or some other program changing type player and you'll always take that guy regardless of the make up of your roster, but there aren't that many of those guys out there and we've probably only landed a handful in JB's entire tenure (Pearl, Coleman, Owens, Melo...maybe Wallace). Maybe this is what the staff saw when they looked at DaJuan Coleman early on, because we don't truly have a pressing need at a position he will play. Incidentally, I don't think he has developed into a program changer - - meaning a guy you look at in High School and say, If you land him, you'll build your team around him. Could he come in and be an upgrade over guys we have? Possibly. Could he just as easily sit behind the guys that are already here and will be more experienced than him? Definitely. Accordingly, while I would prefer to have him than not have him, I no longer really see him going elsewhere, if he does, as a huge blow to the program. It is not as though we have historically pulled in McDonalds AA every single year. Our recruiting has ebbed and flowed with some really strong hauls and some leaner years. Obviously coming off of the probation there were some consecutive leaner years, but for the most part its been a year or two with decent to really good classes then a year with not much. This year is one of those years following on several highly successful years where our incoming class may be lean. Unless you're moving guys out yearly, you can't bring in lots of players every year. [/QUOTE]

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