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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 1959073, member: 37"] Facey, Brimah and Enoch have one thing in common besides size. They all began playing basketball at a late age. Big men progress slower than guards and recruiting big men who are new to the game increases the problem. However most people continue to ignore or forget the events that occurred when these players were recruited. The coaching change and the APR sanctions severely handicapped KO's ability to recruit. These inexperienced players were pretty much all the staff had a chance to recruit the first two seasons. The blame does not lie with KO but with Jeff Hathaway and Mark Emmert. Those sanctions were vendettas and not justice. When the sanctions were lifted KO was finally at an even playing field with other non cheating coaches. He got the consensus 2nd best big in the class when Durham committed. And what happens? The kid suffers his second ACL tear in two years, losing a second year of playing time and gaining a factor of fear he might do it again. This season KO gets a top big in Zach Brown and stops recruiting other bigs to go after players like MAL and Hamidou. And what happens? The kid implodes emotionally and the staff rightfully parted ways. Sometimes events are in our control and we don't make the most of things. I'm not sure the recent failures are staff /player related but circumstances outside their control and that anyone short of a deity would have gotten similar results. [/QUOTE]