With the ugliness of the last couple of days behind us, I think it's time we examined the class as a whole since it was overlooked at the press conference that was supposed to address it 2 days ago.
I mentioned on another post that this recruiting class signaled a departure from previous years and here's why. In year's past, CTF and co. "reached" on players with basketball talent but that where questionable in their academics and perhaps their agendas. The list goes on and on, no need to rehash here. This class, the staff is "reaching" on kids with solid character's, solid academics and outstanding athleticism, who might need more time to develop physically and technically than some recruits we had reached on before.
If I were to compare this class to any previous classes, I would compare it to Barbee's class which included Culpepper, Stone, McCulley and later Moultrie. I think that was a combined 10 stars between them, but that class became the nucleus of what would be one of the better teams we've have in the last 10 years.
This is more along the lines of what Kugler is doing in football and a move that some of us have been calling for. Hopefully it will prove successful. I'd rather give young guys a chance that have something to prove than to a bunch of premadonna's that believe they should be in the NBA already.
These young men should understand that they need time to develop their skills and bodies to be better able to compete with some so called 5 star recruits. Just look at what Winn did last year. If we were to evaluate incoming freshmen from 2015, Winn would be one of the top freshmen in the nation. All he needed was an extra couple of years of development.
This in my mind is how you build a winning mid-major program today. Let everybody else have the highly rated recruits. We need to rate our kids on a different scale.
This has been coaches biggest of his many public failings, gambling on the wrong types of kids. I hope he's got it figured out.
I mentioned on another post that this recruiting class signaled a departure from previous years and here's why. In year's past, CTF and co. "reached" on players with basketball talent but that where questionable in their academics and perhaps their agendas. The list goes on and on, no need to rehash here. This class, the staff is "reaching" on kids with solid character's, solid academics and outstanding athleticism, who might need more time to develop physically and technically than some recruits we had reached on before.
If I were to compare this class to any previous classes, I would compare it to Barbee's class which included Culpepper, Stone, McCulley and later Moultrie. I think that was a combined 10 stars between them, but that class became the nucleus of what would be one of the better teams we've have in the last 10 years.
This is more along the lines of what Kugler is doing in football and a move that some of us have been calling for. Hopefully it will prove successful. I'd rather give young guys a chance that have something to prove than to a bunch of premadonna's that believe they should be in the NBA already.
These young men should understand that they need time to develop their skills and bodies to be better able to compete with some so called 5 star recruits. Just look at what Winn did last year. If we were to evaluate incoming freshmen from 2015, Winn would be one of the top freshmen in the nation. All he needed was an extra couple of years of development.
This in my mind is how you build a winning mid-major program today. Let everybody else have the highly rated recruits. We need to rate our kids on a different scale.
This has been coaches biggest of his many public failings, gambling on the wrong types of kids. I hope he's got it figured out.
