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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 2061416, member: 10"] Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this Calhoun's recruiting strategy also? He went after many top 25 recruits as a first choice, got a few and lost a lot, like most programs. So then he would get a bunch of 25-75 ranked recruits that ended up turning out well. Just off the top of my head I'd say the majority of his best players were those top 25 recruits (Donyell Marshall, Rip Hamilton, Khalid El-Amin, Rudy Gay, guys like that) and then a bunch in the 25-50ish range who ended up being really good also (Ben Gordon, Ray Allen, A.J. Price, Jeff Adrien, guys like that). Obviously recruiting and rankings is an inexact science so not every recruit fits into this argument. But I'd say generally it was true. [/QUOTE]