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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2174793, member: 488"] Typically when fans downplay missing out on a recruit, they are just backpedaling. In this case, I think the angst is misplaced. It's not incredibly far-fetched to think that the staff decided to play hard ball with the 200th best player in the country, even with the roster being what it is. We weren't grooming him as a forward prospect here. That would have resulted in him collecting dust on the bench for a year or two behind better players and then transferring out. Clearly, though, Ollie saw something, and what that something is was a center - not particularly earth-shattering considering our situation at the five, but relevant to the recruitment nonetheless. My sense is that if we tell him what he wants to hear - which is what you do when you really want a kid - he is a Husky. I'm not in the "everything is fine" camp, but we can't have it both ways where it is a disaster that we are settling for kids like this and then it is a disaster when we don't get them. This recruitment was a manifestation of the problem and not the actual problem. As things currently stand, they haven't gotten it done, not on the bench and not on the trail. But using this of all things as grounds for a diagnosis is just a dishonest way to cinch your frustration. [/QUOTE]