It's amazing that we still have not fully recovered from when Jarvis left this program as an absolute train wreck. Lavin almost turned the corner but then Harkless and Dunlap left a year or two earlier then expected. Then when they should have had a good year in 13-14, they came out playing like garbage in November, December, and the first half of January, thus preventing Lavin from recruiting any good players. Why would you commit to a coach who was a good recruiter but was not a very good coach? You wouldn't. And now we are left with the same problem of unbalanced classes that Norm and Lav struggled with.
But really, right now, we need Lovett. And badly. You cannot let your program take on too much water, which it will if we can't get the ball past midcourt on national television. This is serious. We can't afford to look ridiculous on TV with Seth Greenburgh in the studio being all too eager to knock us. Syracuse and SC might turn up the pressure on us and NJIT is a good team this year. We still do not have any wings/forwards for next year. If we look ridiculous this year, we might jeopardize the recruitment of good players for next year and beyond. Plus we need to be good next year and so Lovett needs to log some minutes in games THIS YEAR. How good can you be with a Freshman at point guard? So lets get him some work this year.
As far as the class balance goes, we have three years to address this. In basketball, winning solves everything, and if you recruit two studs in one class and one the next, you've already solved most of your problems. Have a couple of winning seasons and you enhance your ability to recruit. Look ridiculous and you lose your ability to recruit. This is what happened to Lavin. You can't pretend that the lack of class balance does not exist, but the worst thing you can do is lose every conference game which we might if we don't get a PG. We're paralyzed offensively right now. It's serious when you make a Fordham look like the 82' Hoyas. And we have four years to fill that ship.