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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I can understand that point of view; however, I would hope that Haith would have enough authority and persuasive abilities to explain to him the need to do that from the 3. It's better for Ross's future and the team if he becomes more of an attacking player. Also, it would prevent him from getting killed on defense by some of the athletic 4's that populate the league.
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Certain guys are nearly impossible to reach...particularly transfers. I've got it on pretty good authority that Haith has had his fill with transfers, including JUCOs (I'm looking at you, Cheech Criswell). I can't put that on Haith, though. He did what he had to do. The alternative was to tear the whole thing down and build from scratch, and our program likely didn't have the juice to recover from that yet again.
I've been a Haith apologist, but I don't really feel like he needs defending. He was dealt a bizarre hand, and he played it as well or better than I could have possibly expected.
In all actuality, he has been tearing down the program in preparation for a rebuild, but he's done it bit by bit. Brown, Ross, Clarkson, and Criswell are gone after this season. (Brown is in Pressey-mode...he's leaving regardless of his draft outlook.) Next year, the team will be Frank's kids...not kids that he was forced to take out of necessity, but players he recruited out of high school.
It's going to be a young but talented team...likely a bubble team at best...but it will be his. I'm perfectly content to give him two years after this season before escalating evaluating him as a long term option.