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Message: [QUOTE="Paesano, post: 2062422, member: 5631"] It won't sink in because it is faulty logic. He could turn around next year or the year after and say the 2016 class was affected because we couldn't recruit them at full force until they were sophomores. You know, if the kid doesn't see you enough in his freshman year, he writes you off. First of all, it wasn't like our coaches were trapped in Storrs during the sanctions. They still got out there. And when the kids from the 2015 class were juniors, a critical year, our coaches were unhindered. To say that class was "heavily affected" by the sanctions is is either ignorant or intellectually dishonest. And, even if you want to hold on to that faulty premise, we will still have two unhindered classes in the fold next year. Again, plenty of time to recruit over duds. And one last point. Enoch was ranked in the Top 50 by 247. People here were not considering him a dud that "fell into our lap" when we got him. He was considered a future stud that Ollie landed due to his great recruiting. If he is a still a dud by his junior year then either Ollie and his team failed to develop him or he was the wrong Top 50ish kid to go after. Do you guys really think it is unreasonable to demand a Top 25 team next year? No one is asking for the final four or a championship here. Failing to get back to the Top 25 by next year is concerning. [/QUOTE]