Re: Max

[jon breiner]

If I can butt in here, I partly agree with both of you.

I think his classes have been overrated.  With hindsight being 20-20 of course, most of those classes never performed at that level.  There are many reasons for it.  The one that has been the most painful is losing some of them to the law (Bright), attitude (Whaley), or draft (Satterfield).  That killed depth and is one of the major reasons why these teams did not always perform at a top 10 rate.  Of course, remember some of these guys DID contribute to #1 teams.

I am most excited because I have always believed that Huggins was greatly hindered in his ability to recruit great high school talent via the conference and university.  Obviously the conference has changed, and I believe the university has been getting much better.  And it appears as if this has also changed his ability to get in the front door of more high school recruits.  We have a few already here, and more interested.  If Zimpher doesn't continue to hold him back, it even appears some (Bennett) want to get here as soon as they can.

Anyway, I think both of you have valid points here.

Jon



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jerry weinstein 
  To: address@hidden 
  Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:13 AM
  Subject: [UC Basketball] Max


  Dan,

  Hey, I don't see how saying I was taking your word on the 6 out of 9 (or whatever) was insinuating you were lying or misinformed. On the contrary, I was assuming you were correct for the purpose of discussion.

  I think my point about jucos is pretty self evident:  that his classes wouldn't have been rated nearly as high without them and that they tend to be overrated. The competition for jucos isn't nearly as great as it is for top high school players.

  The root of all Huggins' problems here is his failure to recruit effectively at the high school level, which has caused him to take too many jucos (many of whom shouldn't have been here) and even some high schoolers who may have been highly rated but were not high quality kids.