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Message: [QUOTE="Matrim55, post: 1981820, member: 3376"] This is a good discussion, and I thank you for taking the time to compile the research and for sure you proved "as good as we get" was overshooting it a little bit -- Calhoun put together 5 huge recruiting classes in 6 years, and on paper I think 05 & 06 back-to-back is probably our best group even without Bynum. If we'd gotten Diallo then we could plausibly make the argument, but without that one top 10 player, it does fall a little bit short. That said, I was talking about recruiting in two-year blocks, because that's how college coaches have to think. For example now that we've missed on Diallo, even us amateurs are talking about how it'd be better to get a postgrad or JuCo SG instead of reaching for a 2017 commit down the rankings, or trying to flip an already committed player, because A) we need someone who can help next year, and B) we have the inside track on a 2018 SG (Reeves) who has a high upside. And regardless I still stand by my assertion that for a two-year haul, this is damn near the top for us even before we fill those last two scholarships. I'm not super concerned about the bolded part. We took it on the chin with Brown being a criminal and we shot for the moon with Diallo & Bamba and (likely) missed on both, but that's kind of what you're supposed to do when you already have six four-star players coming into the program in a two-year span. Getting guys like that allowed us to miss on the higher rated guys without it absolutely devastating the program, and the truth is we'll swing-and-miss more often than we make solid contact going forward. But as long as guys like Gilbert & Durham stay healthy, and Jackson & Carleton develop, we're going to be better than ok. Ollie is thinking like a GM now -- a roster-builder -- and not just like a coach. [/QUOTE]

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