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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3424488, member: 6927"] This is really the crux of it. The phrase "It's the recruiting, stupid" has come to my mind repeatedly in recent months. Didn't Geno himself say something to the effect of: "In recruiting you can't miss a year, and we missed two"? By which I can only assume he means the Walker class and the current freshman class? The thing is, that's only half the story. You can have a weak recruiting class as long as you sandwich it between strong classes (e.g. the class in between TASSK and DT comes to mind). But Crystal also turned out to be a class of one, in terms of meaningful minutes in big games. And the Christyn-Olivia class is, well, an investment far from maturity. It's downright mystifying that as of February of her sophomore year, Christyn's high water mark was a game in early December of her freshman year. Olivia, it turns out, is a project player. It's tough to accept that our personnel is deficient when we have 4 players ranked in the top 5 coming out of HS, including two #1 players. Perhaps that should teach us the folly of relying on player rankings to tell us how good a player or class is. But what we see is who we are. As fans, we can try to strike a balance between tempering our expectations and hoping that light bulbs turn on and corners are turned, sooner than later. [/QUOTE]