Not sure what they could have done for "plan B". AJ Green announced he was staying in the draft on June 1st. The transfer well is pretty much dried up by then and they had to keep a spot open for him, he would have been our best player.
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Yeah, how were we supposed to recruit other players? "Hey, we really want you, but we have a better player that we're waiting on to decide if he's going to the NBA or not. So if you could just hang out for 2-3 months to see if we'll have a spot open, that would be great. Oh, and if he does stay in college, we wont have room for you...... we really want you though." Good luck with that.
This is unconfirmed but sounds like maybe a meniscus injury and subsequent surgery. Per his own twitter, he is almost back to full go. Should be completely recovered by the time the freshmen and transfers arrive on campus in early June.
Trending towards more transfers per class. I doubt we ever take more than 3 high school signees again unless there is a special circumstance or a rule change.
Such a huge risk to develop young players. If they come in and explode they leave. If they come in and are a bust they leave.
Seems like they're used to fill out the roster more than anything. It's difficult to convince a transfer to come in and be the 12th-13th man on the bench. Freshman are a little more unknown so you can bring them in for a year. If they're good, they'll get some playing time and hopefully stick around, if they're not, they'll transfer out after the first year. No harm done.
So by your perspective even if a kid says I'm going pro if at all possible ( which he did) you still shutdown recruiting because you think his first option is unlikely and get caught with your pants down. Interesting.
Coaches with this philosophy aren't long for the business. Like I said previously, multiple times it won't happen to TJ again.
I believe they had Hadley at 99% to ISU so take with a little grain of salt.On3 has Jefferson to ISU at 99.9%.
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Well this is 99.9 so 10x more likely.
No, you can keep recruiting guys. They aren't going to wait around for 2-3 months though. Who would we have recruited at that time while we were waiting for Green?
I have no idea but we shutdown and didn't have anyone else we even attempted to get on campus. Were you around then? It was made clear here it was AJ or nothing.
I'm arguing we shut it down because there weren't other options. We basically couldn't recruit anyone until AJ made his decision, which was at the beginning of June.
Ideally, AJ would have made his decision a month earlier so we might have had time to look elsewhere.
Imagine that team with AJ Green on it though. He would have made all the difference on a team that just couldn't score.
I'm just equating the numbers given but in the end it's all 50/50.
We should talk about AJ Green more. It's interesting as hell.
