I wouldn't say expectations for them are high... even mine. As weird as that probably sounds.
Allow me to explain my position... if you agree, great. If you don't, fine.
I still openly support the recruitment of Jamal Bienemy, Brady Manek, Kristian Doolittle, etc... I would just add pieces between the best HS players I can get with junior college players instead. On my staff would be a full-time junior college recruiter, who would know the juco coaches, leagues, and players inside and out. If the juco guy is a premier piece, great, if its a role player, I think its even better its a juco player.
There are a few benefits to this... You only commit to role players for 2 years instead of 4... Your team gets older guys, bringing in 20/21 year olds instead of 18/19 year olds. There is a difference.
Last year having Bandoo and Jones is the difference between 19 and 24/25 wins. Those aren't hard guys to get. Especially if you position your program as the #1 destination for juco talent. Don't act like thats impossible either, we've already done that in the past.
If you think those days are gone.... Sampsons best player on a 30 win team this year was from San Jacinto JC in Texas. Before that he had the American player of the year in Rob Gray from a JC in Texas.
Look at what Bob Huggins has done with juco talent in the past few years:
Tarik Phillip - Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. Got him from Independence CC in Kansas.
Jon Holton - Averaged 9 points and 8 rebounds per game
Jaysean Paige - Big 12 6th Man of the Year. Averaged 14 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 2.1 steals per game. Got him from Moberly CC in Kansas
Jermaine Hailey - Came in from a Odessa CC in Texas and averaged 16 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists per game in his last 10 games last year. Will see how he does next year, but he looks like a very promising player.
So Bob Huggins can fly into Kansas and Texas and magically pick good junior college talent but OU can't? He's had other good juco players too, these are just a few examples from the past couple of years.
He isn't some crap program either... Prior to this years down-year where they had to kick multiple starters off the team and lost their best player to injury, they had finished 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd in the Big 12 the 4 years prior to that.
And he went back to the well this year in recruiting... Signed 2 6'4'' guards from junior college to compliment his McDonalds All-American power forward. So he clearly hasn't given up on it..
The defense of this is continually "how do you know he didn't recruit Mason Jones".... "How do you know they didn't even know about Haley?".... "How do we know Bandoo even wanted to come to OU"....
This is all just hogwash... First of all, offers are pretty openly reported. If OU offers someone its on like 5 different websites and twitter... So that is one thing... The other, OU just really isn't offering many of these guys. Just letting them go to Baylor, WVU, Houston, etc without an offer.
Second... the fact that these guys are going to Arkansas (who has had 3-4 SEC juco transfers just in the past few years), Baylor, TCU, WVU, and around the country without any OU offers tells me we have completely surrendered junior college recruiting to others and only dip into it at the 11th hour in desperation. However, we did sign Kuath and Williams and, I suspect fans will be happy with them next year.
Lastly.... my perfect recruiting class has my signing the best high school kids I can, while having a specific junior college recruiter identifying all the players who can help the team immediately win the next year. Shooters, slashers, rebounders, depth, etc... Immediate impact guys who fill the gaps in your roster. If that means 2-3 jucos per year, fine, so be it.
Hope that clarifies the position.