Off court stuff happened at Arkansas and off court stuff is happening at USC. The only similar factor is the coach and who he recruits. Injuries happen. Off court or losing a locker room is on the character of the coach and the players he decides to bring in.
He can recruit but I feel like if a...
So, from what I have read on this board before, 5 shots is nothing in this format.
That would put us at striking distance up to 3 and needing the 1 and 2 to fall back to have a shot there.
Is this still true?
I'm not saying he should even have been top 75 but much closer to 100 when you are POY and did what he did on the HS level. That is embarrassing. They went to the big tourneys and just said, yep that's good enough.
Who won that state's player of the year? He wasn't a complete unknown; they got lazy and didn't do their homework on him. That is what the embarrassment is.