Fordhams Alan Griffin comment was in response to sjuhoopnut and Moose's back and forth on page 7 about how "everyone clamoring for an impact big" while they thought a guard would be more important if Shamorie were to leave.
Okay well I wasn't conversant with fordham's response to sjuhoopnet's response to moose's response to sjuhoopnut's reponse to fordham's response to sjuhoopnut about a hypothetical situation when I read your post. My post was in response to what you wrote.
I don't blame you for not knowing who Alan Griffin is, because he's not ranked by any services, but why would you argue with people upset at being involved with players like Earlington and Griffin if you don't really know anything about their games?
What I notice is that the people who are upset about being involved with players like Earlington and Griffin are people who are upset with Mullin in general. People who think that the previous coach should not have been fired, that Mullin should not have been hired, and that now he should be fired. I'm not upset with Mullin in general and am anyway a thorough going skeptic and contrarian who likes to argue. So I present the opposite view point, and especially because I don't recall these same posters saying why is Lavin recruiting Marco Bourgault and Max Hooper and Amir Alibagofgarbage and Felix Balamou and Keith Thomas.
Regarding these two players in particular, from what little I've read one is an all state basketball player and the other a three star recruit, of good size, the son of an NBA player who "averaged 18.5 points, 9.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.5 steals while shooting 48 percent from the field, 48 percent from beyond the arc and 79 percent from the line ... and is hearing from Rutgers, Illinois, Xavier and Minnesota."
So those two guys sound fine to me. Maybe they're not Kentucky caliber recruits but SJ doesn't get too many Kentucky caliber recruits. I would not expect them to make an immediate impact. I would hope they'd develop into useful players. Because outside of a couple of years that is how SJ has been successful: by developing underclassmen so that they can compete as upperclassmen.
I take the complete opposite view on recruiting. I view it as the lifeblood of college sports. Considering the last two coaches we've had haven't been xs and os wizards, I think it makes having top notch kids coming in even more important.
I didn't say I didn't think recruiting was important. Recruiting is very important. I said I found it boring. Watching grainy you tube videos of dopey teenagers in ratty gyms and comparing their stars to other stars and parsing their instamyspace accounts and trying to figure out what they're thinking. I could not be less interested in what teen agers think, especially teen agers who've been babied their entire lives based upon on their ability to dribble a basketball. All but two or three or four of them end up going somewhere else anyway. It all seems like a grand waste of time to me. As usual, YMMV.
Seems like the main thing you and I disagree on is lavins time at sju. If you aren't interested in recruiting then I 100% understand why you weren't a lavin guy.
I was a Lavin guy until I wasn't and it had nothing to do with recruiting, although after year 1.5 he was an awful lazy recruiter. I disliked Lavin because he was a bad coach and a shameless self promoter and an abominable human being and I'm pretty sure a high functioning hysteric. I am sorry he was hired and happy he is gone and Mullin could lose every game between now and when his contract expires and it wouldn't change my opinion.