soonertboy824
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This is going to take a few years for capel to get us back to where we want to be. I think the first adjustment he NEEDS to make is to go after character players and solid players. I think ever since he has been here he has gone all in on certain players. This started wih jai lucas and has continued. This has hurt us up to this yr w players like rickey scott. we wanted doron lamb bc he was more highly rated. we should have taken scott bc he wanted to come here and he is solid. he is still top 100 which is plenty good to build a program from. Capel neeeds to adjust this philosophy slightly. im not saying not to go after some of the big guys but we cant afford to strike out and be forced to settle for guys we shouldnt have like ray willis.No disrespect to ray but he just isnt a big 12 player. also im just using him to symbolize all those guys e have gotten throughout the last couple years.
Its going to take a few years so we need to not only focus on this years recruiting class. I have read people saying that we need to sign 7 or 8 guys in this class. I think that would be the biggest mistake we could possibly make. IF we sign 7 or 8 guys at least 3 or 4 of them are going to be complete reaches that will never play. Capel needs to sign only the players that can actually play at a high level or as a good role player for the next few years. Im not going to jump and say who these guys are or whether or not ppl like carter or aziz are, but we cannot setttle for low level players. Capel needs to get 2 or 3 solid bigs in this years class. Obviously we would love if it was someone like terrence jones, but if we were to get 2 juan patllos(that didnt leave the team haha) then i would be thrilled. We are kind of late in this yr so we should get what we can take even if they arent stars. we just need role players.
Getting role players may not sound good because you think role players have to be around stars. this is partly true, but again we need to realize this is goin to take a few years to get us to where we wanna be. we can start by getting role players and being decent next year. then we can look to get someone like roc christmas and build around him and make a run in 2011. but we cant say we arent gonna take anyone else bc we want roc. we need to take ppl that want to be here and hope we can get those guys to be our role players and then every yr get one high high level player...
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Its going to take a few years so we need to not only focus on this years recruiting class. I have read people saying that we need to sign 7 or 8 guys in this class. I think that would be the biggest mistake we could possibly make. IF we sign 7 or 8 guys at least 3 or 4 of them are going to be complete reaches that will never play. Capel needs to sign only the players that can actually play at a high level or as a good role player for the next few years. Im not going to jump and say who these guys are or whether or not ppl like carter or aziz are, but we cannot setttle for low level players. Capel needs to get 2 or 3 solid bigs in this years class. Obviously we would love if it was someone like terrence jones, but if we were to get 2 juan patllos(that didnt leave the team haha) then i would be thrilled. We are kind of late in this yr so we should get what we can take even if they arent stars. we just need role players.
Getting role players may not sound good because you think role players have to be around stars. this is partly true, but again we need to realize this is goin to take a few years to get us to where we wanna be. we can start by getting role players and being decent next year. then we can look to get someone like roc christmas and build around him and make a run in 2011. but we cant say we arent gonna take anyone else bc we want roc. we need to take ppl that want to be here and hope we can get those guys to be our role players and then every yr get one high high level player...
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