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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2476269, member: 488"] Boat was the 55th ranked recruit. I'll grant you that drawing the line between "blue chip recruit" and something less than that gets pretty blurry, but I think you'd have to define that as a different tier than 100-150. Daniels was the 18th ranked composite recruit. I can't find the composite rank for Bazz because he re-classified, but he may have in fact been closer to 100 than 50 which would help your argument. Still, people were only complaining about the 2010 class because we graduated three seniors from the 2010 team and had been in the mix for elite recruits like Knight, Selby, Joseph, Leslie, etc. Remember, the 2010 class also included Roscoe Smith who was a top 40 recruit. Even if we are going to call Akinjo a top 100 guy, that's still three top 100 guys for that class to one for this class, and we [I]added [/I]that class to Kemba, Oriakhi, Coombs-McDaniel, and (at the time) Majok. The Boat/Drummond/Daniels class was unanimously fawned upon by the fan base. That was the last great class at UConn before we started to slip. But the bottom line is Calhoun used to get tier 2 recruits and the occasional tier 1 guy. Ollie seems to be mining for tier 3's and that's a big problem if we want to get back to national relevance (which might not be realistic). [/QUOTE]