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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 4260667, member: 504"] Nobody knocks Calipari’s way with recruits. Look, for example everyone was super excited that Hurley landed Jackson. I think Jackson creates a coaching problem that arguably Hurley could have recognized during recruiting. Maybe he did for all we know. Not a terrific shooter and I’m guessing his physical dominance in hs allowed him to score a lot without necessarily being an A level jump shooter. There are limits to how much a coach can significantly improve shooting. Polley, our supposed shooter was either hot or stone cold with not that much in between. Hawkins is supposedly the guy but he has his own learning curve. That’s why I say maybe a more nuanced criticism is regarding the skills of our recruits which definitely impacts coaching choices. I don’t know that there is any such thing as a real answer. All I’m saying is that we had a team deficient in a pretty key area and maybe getting this group to BE 3rd place, top 25 and into the dance was a pretty decent coaching job. I’m disappointed too in a first round loss, but this team wasn’t going to win an NC with John Wooden or Dean Smith coaching it. So the main disappointment to me is that we didn’t get to see the season extended another game or two. Can’t imagine what this board would’ve been like if we’d made the 16 and lost to a 15 seed as I’m pretty sure happened last night. [/QUOTE]