[quote="JohnnyFan" post=282334][quote="PharmaJohnny" post=282328][quote="Mean Gene" post=282322][quote="Tom in Salem" post=282314][quote="Paultzman" post=282309]Robert Morris transfer Dachon Burke tells me he will visit Nebraska on April 25th and 26th.
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Likely destination with Nebraska staff all over him for a while[/quote]
And the SJU staff was where?[/quote]
Everyone is killing the staff and I understand why but I actually think that Matt as one man on the trail has done a more than admirable job here. He's brought in Figueroa , Williams , Roberts , Earlington, Eli Wright and Caraher, Keita, Dixon in the last two years. There's some talent there.[/quote]
I agree, @Mean Gene. I completely agree.
I know this thought might be considered heresy, but has anyone considered the possibility that Chris&Co have their reasons for not pursuing certain people, and those reasons could possibly include something other than they ran out of time?
Again, at the risk of losing all Redmen.com privileges and being invited to exit quietly and never post on these forums again - doesn't anyone think they have more/better info than we do, and/or they have assessed aspects of the individual in terms of fit for the short and long term along with the realistic possibilities of signing the individual, and then made appropriate decisions on how hard to pursue?[/quote]
Agree that Matt works hard and has brought a lot to the table. As has been repeatedly mentioned, one man alone should not be responsible for filling an entire D-I basketball roster.
As far as the insinuation that we have not been more successful due to information that fans are not privy, it's hard to digest. Bottom line, if the program cannot fill one very specific need over the course of two recruiting cycles, an adjustment to the recruiting approach or assistant coach make-up should be on the table (which it now seem to be).[/quote]
True enough, and a valid point - 2 recruiting cycles is a long time, and of course we ALL wish the desired big was already locked down for this coming year.
But that said, having run my own decent sized company for many years and having made all sorts of hiring mistakes over the decades, amongst the worst is hiring in desperation, aka: simply filling a position for sake of filling the position. Invariably, this mistake has come back to haunt me, sometimes miserably.
What I have found is that it's invariably better to do without and leave a position open longer than anyone would like than to fill it with a less than optimal fit. Has my company also fallen victim to being outbid for talent in a tight labor market where we're looking for a valuable skill set? Sure. And this only makes it that much more difficult (and much more critical) to avoid caving and go and hire just anyone.
Sticking to a plan and executing is the foundation of any organization's long term success. I would like to think that Chris&Co have a much longer view than simply this recruiting cycle (or the last one), and while some of the misses may appropriately be considered mistakes, the (possible vast) majority of others are far more calculated than any of us could know.
Now in fairness, I have had my own administrative staff question me on this practice of leaving positions open while we recruit a higher grade of talent, particularly when the remaining staff is left to pick up the slack - but all I need do is remind some of my longer tenured staff of the names of the past sub-prime hirings, and how much harder everything was for everyone because of the sub-optimal work that resulted from those individuals..
I guess what I'm saying is that while I agree that we *should* have a big in place already, and we all *wish* we did, the fact remains that we don't. And with that being the fact, we (along withChris&Co) have to look at the longer term and the bigger picture and not get a big for the sake of having one on the stat sheet. And with all the effort to check these kids from every angle, we have to bear in mind that there could be a multitude of reasons that one particular kid or another is not pursued with the energy some may think is deserved.
Bottom line? As I have stated in another thread, I would rather we work short (literally and figuratively) than have a big who is the wrong fit. Based on the way Chris&Co evaluated and used Yakwe (and to an extent Alibegovich), it appears to me they agree.
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