No, I took MadSeason's comment to mean that the Illini could have gotten more 4 stars if they had more roster spots available, which is basically what he stated. You apparently agree with him, so maybe you can explain if they could have gotten more 4 stars with more spots to fill (and having less hours per recruit), why didn't they get more 4 stars with the nine 3 star (plus two additional unfilled) spots?
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The first comment was that if we had more open spots, we would have filled them with low 3 star recruits. Which is nothing but an assumption.
MadSeason stated that. Then he mentioned that the spots were limited. And that we landed the majority of the recruits we targeted.
You then replied with a snarky comment along the lines of purposely are not landing top 500 recruits so we are not greedy.
I responded saying I believe MadSeason was correct. The staff looked at the options, delegated the hours based off their probability, and then were very successful within that plan.
To flat out say MadSeason was implying we would have landed more top end talent if we had more spots is incorrect. If we had more spots, we could have gone after more talent. Who we would have landed is unknown. To say if we had more spots, we would have just filled them with Bryce Childress or Fabian McCray is wrong.
2020 - I don't know where they rank, but viable options so far look like Denver Warren, Beason's cousin, the East St. Louis trio, Mookie Cooper. I would say if the staff feels they can land these guys, they are going to go all out and see how many hours they have left to fill the class. Makes sense to me