We are not going to rerecruit Nolley and let me give you an example why.
Several decades ago there was a concensus first team all stater that everybody wanted. It got down to Illinois and another BIG. The other BIG won.
September of his freshman year, I bumped into his sister and asked how her brother was doing. Hates everything, was recruited over, they want him to change positions, etc. Mom and dad are telling him to tranfer JC before practice begins so he will be elgible somewhere else next year. Then the zinger.
He really wished he had gone to Illinois.
I had a close friend who was close to Lou. I passed the story on and my friend called Lou.
Henson got back to my friend and said No. If we had started after this player again we would have come off as "needy, pathetic, desperate, pitiful, we need him more than he needs us, he is calling all the shots, on and on". It could have created a difficult team dynamic.
The player went JC, commited to another BIG, and had a career that I would
describe as fair to partly cloudy. Still in the college game, well known.
If Nolley is in O and B next year, its because he is at Auburn. The only way this BU takes Nolley is if he calls us and says he is willing to commit immediately. Highly, highly unlikely. Lou was right then and BU will be right now.