Hopefully Tharpe is still a possibility. I have no idea on these recruits so ill defer to the people who have seen these kids play...
Could Sledge or Tharpe come in as freshman and run the team a year from now, or would we be looking at Stith (hopefully improved) as the starting PG?
I know things can chage with people improving or being underrated over the course of a year but i would hope the PG we bring in would be able to start from day 1.
Tharpe could start right away at some BE schools. No comment on Sledge.
We've had Eugene Lawrence and Malik Boothe as starters over the past decade. Tharpe is much more polished as a point guard than either of them. If they got him, these embarrassing days of the opposing pg being able to double off of our man would be over.
Were there better point guards available in this class? Yeah, but he'd be a significant upgrade at a position of need for us. Rebuilding this program, as you know, will be a multi-year process.