buckeydoptimist
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LitlBuck;1212684; said:
Litl,
No one is saying you can recruit ONLY 1&d's, but there is a big chasm between 1&d's and Emonte Jernigan's. My take is that you need some "transition" players like Lighty, Lauderdale, Diebler, Offutt, Crater, Wright that have plenty of talent and potential but are pretty likely to stay all 4 years as well. Those are who you fill out your roster - and bench - with, IMO, you shouldn't have to scrap around for summertime desparation slim pickings. Some of the problem has been taking too few quality players in past classes, and not anticipating as well as possible other defections. Frease was mentioned as probably not being pursued as much as he should have been, for example, I for one agree with that sentiment.
I'm not judging Z yet, just presenting the counterpoint argument that his only results in the US game, to date, are unimpressive and valid reason for skepticism and question marks to be raised.
It is hard to say what players TM should have a legit shot at. I certainly was not happy that he struck out with Roe, Gates and Frease - for whatever reasons - and then finds himself scrambling to the JUCO and xfer ranks for any inside help ( Kecman and Z being the results ). I hope we get lucky WITH BOTH, but I'd rather sign OH h.s. T50-nationally talent than JUCOs and xfers, TYPICALLY.
As for the 09 class, TM was linked to or said to be after: Sidney, Painter, Plumlee, Judge, Armwood and Wilson among others up front, and hopefully is still after Orton. I applaud the staff for going after some of the best - but they struck out and thus why it may have led to more desparation than there should be! Signing big classes in 08 and 10 ( 6 hopefully ) will go a long way to helping smooth things out over time. I advocated using all 7 in the 06 class when momentum was there, but 4 of those 5 are now gone which creates too big a hole ( and the prior year has zero remaining recruits - thus no SRs on the roster at all ).
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