Recruiting Efforts

[justingroves]

And Duke, Ramar, and Marques excelled elsewhere?

What's that matter?

Ramar, Duke and Marques couldn't stay out of trouble. If you take on guys like that, you should make sure you can control them.

 

[justingroves]

That class also had Duke Crews, Ramar Smith, Cam Tatum, and Marques Johnson (all were top 25 at their position and top 100 overall, Crews and Smith were top 50 overall) as highly rated players, so Pearl went 1 for 5 there.

Cam Tatum's knees are shot. That's not really Pearl's fault.

 

[Spartacavolus]

What's that matter?

Ramar, Duke and Marques couldn't stay out of trouble. If you take on guys like that, you should make sure you can control them.

It matters because it shows being top 100 means jack squat many times.

 

[justingroves]

It matters because it shows being top 100 means jack squat many times.

Okay?

The coach still did a poor job evaluating the kids and their abilities to stay in school and out of trouble.

Fulmer caught hell for bringing in dumbasses, I don't see why Pearl gets a pass.

It doesn't matter if they were "top 100" or not.

 

[hatvol96]

Fulmer caught hell for bringing in dumbasses, I don't see why Pearl gets a pass.

Bodypaint and press conference tears.

 

[justingroves]

Bodypaint and press conference tears.

Ha I guess so

 

[HendersonVol]

My alternative theory as to why he gets a pass is because he won a lot of basketball games and never had a losing season.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.
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[justingroves]

My alternative theory as to why he gets a pass is because he won a lot of basketball games and never had a losing season.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Fair enough.

I can assure you "overthinking" has never been a problem you've had.

 

[JokermanVol]

fulmer caught hell for his dumbasses when he wasn't winning. pearl never had that losing problem.

 

[Spartacavolus]

Okay?

The coach still did a poor job evaluating the kids and their abilities to stay in school and out of trouble.

Fulmer caught hell for bringing in dumbasses, I don't see why Pearl gets a pass.

It doesn't matter if they were "top 100" or not.

He doesn't get a pass. I've always said the last few years he was starstruck on getting a top ranked class and misevaluated, or let things slide in order to get a 4 or 5 star in. Then, they couldn't control them, and most coaches think they can. I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that, among those players, they don't get recruited by BP unless they had great ratings and their ratings ended up being bs because they don't take into account grades, personality, issues, etc, etc.

 

[HendersonVol]

Fair enough.

I can assure you "overthinking" has never been a problem you've had.

Bait taken.
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[justingroves]

fulmer caught hell for his dumbasses when he wasn't winning. pearl never had that losing problem.

Just the drug dealing ex point guard problem.

 

[Spartacavolus]

Just the drug dealing ex point guard problem.

We need to move Ramar to Lexington and see what kind of crap he can stir up there. Crazy emeffer. Though, maybe he doesn't know right from wrong.

 

[HendersonVol]

Just the drug dealing ex point guard problem.

Murder is ok. Losing is a no go.
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[JokermanVol]

Just the drug dealing ex point guard problem.

that's not worthy of catching hell for.

 

[DaDuRkEr]

That class also had Duke Crews, Ramar Smith, Cam Tatum, and Marques Johnson (all were top 25 at their position and top 100 overall, Crews and Smith were top 50 overall) as highly rated players, so Pearl went 1 for 5 there.

I don't recall Johnson being highly ranked. He was a low 3* IIRC. Tabb was the 2nd best contributor out of that class.

I agree with the statement somebody made about Pearl wanting highly rated classes and sold out his preferred way to run his system to bring in highly rated players that didn't have a shot at succeeding in our system like Woolridge and Jurick to name a couple. Both were 4* top 60 players.