I went back and re-read a good portion of this thread and had to smile reading all the "BU can't close," "other first-year coaches have big recruits already," "look at all the guys turning us down" comments. It was apparent early on that BU had made Ayo and THT his top priorities and during all the hand wringing neither of those players had signed elsewhere. Sure Nolley or CC would have been a good get, but when you're recruiting good players you're going to have misses. So far BU and staff have hit on one of their priorities and, hopefully, tonight they'll on the second one. They'll be more misses in the future (hopefully not tonight), but BU and staff will get the players needed.
And as to the THT recruitment and all the he said, she said, dueling experts, comments attributed to this person or that -- it really is ridiculous. Let the kids and their families make the decisions they think are best for them -- and for whatever reasons they deem important. As much as I like to read about recruits, which ones are good and which ones we might get, all these "experts" on twitter and different sites that think they have to say something in order to justify their existence has gotten out of hand. Whew, now I feel better.
