I mean, I'm pretty sure most of the recruits we got for this year committed way before the team made their run. If I'm not mistaken.
Good point.
Lav got the likes of Moe, D'angelo, and Dom to sign with us before last year's team had any success, or he had even coached a game for that matter.
Let's hope he can find some of that magic on the recruiting trail again.
It was pretty depressing when this news first broke, not because Nuri was such an integral part of the team (he was, but he wasn't ya know), but just because it was more bad news in a fall/winter that seems to be filled with it for Redmen fans.
But now I'm thinking .... if there's one thing we know about coach Lavin it is that he can recruit. He did it at UCLA to the tune of #1 classes and McD AAs galore, and before ever coaching a game here he had recruits looking at us who never would have taken our phone call in the Norm era.
I STRONGLY believe that between the JUCO ranks, foreign players, our ineligibles at Prep, transfers, and all the HS players that are still unsigned... somewhere from that huge pool of talent Lavin can get us a class of 4-5 guys to balance out the roster and improve our weaknesses.