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Message: [QUOTE="willie99, post: 2468961, member: 192"] He pushed a reset button after last year, and kids didn't like what they heard left. I have no problem with that. Many thought at that time this season was already going to be a total disaster, but he managed to resurrect some hope. All his detractors argued he'll never be able to recruit kids to come here again, he already proved that to be wrong. A highly regarded recruit decommitted after the coach that recruited him was fired, that's collateral damage. And this year's team will be better, with more time together and the more distance we put behind us with respect to Larrier's injury. Gilbert's loss CANNOT be simply discounted as meaningless, and not recruiting over him should not be called his fault either. Kids know Gilbert is here, we can't hide that, and Gilbert deserves some respect for choosing us to begin with. We were in a bad place just 6 or 7 short months ago, and significant progress has been made since then. So once again I'm going to argue he needs more time, especially since he's not going anywhere. [/QUOTE]