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Old 12-16-2013, 03:59 PM   #4185
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Originally Posted by Saul Good View Post
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.
It is inarguable that Suitcase left him an absolute AIDS-fire of a dumpster wrecked train.

The 2011/2 team should have had Otto Porter on it.

I understand the desire to use transfers to keep from cratering, and it makes sense that they are a different breed. Most players transfer for selfish reasons.

I have no issues with how Haith has recruited. My issues with him has always come from game management.

I can also understand why he'd be pissed about even more JUCO players. Goddamn, is Keanu Post terrible.
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