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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2286658, member: 488"] It's funny because if Mathis had committed to UConn, I could have written virtually the same post with the title "There is still plenty of reason for negativity." I'm genuinely curious to know how many of the people that are disagreeing with me actually read beyond the title, because none of the responses seem to address any of the points I made specifically. This was far from a fluff post. It attempts to encapsulate the current situation in a way that is neutral at best. It's just that, when everything is monotonously negative, any attempt to appeal to due process is characterized as naive. I agree with people like [USER=5132]@CardiacAndre7[/USER] . To lose another recruitment in this fashion is agonizing and could come at the expense of the long-term health of the program. But for every weakness of Ollie's that has been exposed in recent years is a reciprocal trait of endearment. He's a basketball coach and not a politician or a businessman. He's also a leader, a father, and a champion. If it turns out somebody out-hustled him, so be it. Ollie's purported ambivalence is a blessing as much as it is a curse because the marriage is less diluted by circumstantial variables - like the opinions of AAU coaches and sneaker companies - that tend to organically stratify recruits by personality. None of this is to say there haven't been plenty of of maniacally competitive guys shopped away. The greater the talent, the greater the cartel, and typically, when a player lands in the top 10 or top 50 or top 100 it isn't because they aren't driven. Ollie, though, is built in such a way that the synthesis of the good can preclude the bad. Get a kid in the room, and he'll be ready to commit before Ollie stops talking. It might not be love at first sight, but it's something close. It's the reason we have struggled to corral top ranked kids with drawn out recruitments. There is an immediacy in falling for Ollie's pedagogy that can't quite be qualified and as a result his rosters will frequently be homogeneous in a manner that might be less conducive to infighting, turnover, and complacency. [/QUOTE]

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