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[QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4249373, member: 55"]
K. Williams?  Who cares if your last man is someone good.  If it’s someone with a lot of potential, the board complains that they’re not playing enough.  And if it’s someone who isn’t good enough to ever make an impact, we ask why don’t we have young kids not ready yet but who if we sat them a few years might be good.

Adams and Enoch was a good enough class.  The class after it, on paper, was unbelievable.  Getting Purvis and Gibbs and Miller were great.  EVen the last year, with everything falling apart, Akinjo — and all conference level player and important starter on a top ten team — wanted to come here.

Every coach has recruiting failures.  Even Calhoun.  KO’s recruiting was not the problem.  The problem is that whatever changed with him, whether his divorce or something else or just picking kids who were entitled, kids didn’t want to play hard for him and take order.  I’m not excusing that.  While I’ll always think we pulled the plug quickly given the natty, I understand why and I don’t think he was going to turn us around quickly.  But recruiting was the least of his problems.
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