My point is that everyone misses. It's a fallacy perpetuated on here that, "well gee, if only we had gotten player X Y or Z things would be different". Every team can say that. It's not an intelligent argument to make to solve our problems. Every miss doesn't turn into an All-Conference type player. Hindsight never, ever, netted us a win, in any sport. For every one of our misses that turned out well for another team, there are many more we missed on who didn't fair well, even with the team that got them. Besides all that, those you listed haven't played a game of college ball yet, so who knows??
You're changing the argument. I said the only way out of the crap we're watching is through recruiting. That's a fact.
A coach can only do so much you've got to have talent.
So like verified insider said, our margin for error is small. MSU missing on the #5 player in the nation and landing the #12 Is not even close to us missing on the #65 guy and landing #212 (for example).
We're not in bad position but we've got to land some key players. We've got gaping holes in this roster. The 3 freshmen guards will eventually be the backbone of some very good teams but not if they have no front court to help them. Ebo looks like a Big Ten player but not a future star.
Hence if we don't land Okoro and Liddell we're in trouble, because who are the backup plans? It doesn't get any easier to land top 40 recruits folks. Both at positions of great need to where we can offer starters minutes as a Fr. Both downstate Illinois kids, both have close friends already on the team. 5 star pg committed to help get them the ball and some good young guards.
This is similar to the Lon Kruger days. The 4 downstate guys Cook, Williams, McClain, and Griffin brought the Illini back. We need Liddell, Okoro, and Miller (counting him as a Peoria guy) to do it for Underwood.
The problem is I don't have any real faith we'll land all 3. You can't play as bad as we are and land these guys when we are going up against win at all cost recruiters.
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