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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4636412, member: 71"]
Couldn't have been him.

While he was from a tough place (East St Louis), Martin was a model citizen.  He really liked the school and JC but felt the program wasn't big enough at the time.  JC had a similar situation a few years earlier with a kid (I believe his name was Perry Clark, may be wrong on his last name) who ended up at Ohio State (ironically we beat him in the NIT final).

At the time, with kids from where they were from, we couldn't compete with a quality B10 program.

The number is quite a bit higher than one on quality recruits that we just missed on.  We could have gotten to where we are a bit quicker if we landed one or two but, all things considered I'm very happy with the results.

As an aside, not considering all the details (which could cover 20 pages) I don't believe that Camby and JC could have coexisted.  HC wanted kids to demand the best from themselves.  Camby wanted to be able to do what he wanted when he wanted.
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