UCABEARS75 wrote:
Played what, three games between them?
With the limited numbers you have in basketball mistakes in recruiting, not necessarily mistakes in judging talent, can be very costly.
Well, it's a lot easier to call it after the fact. Recruiting isn't an exact science, and things happen like that all over the country.
But while some people want to see Jamie Boone and Theresa Reynolds, others prefer to look at Lauren Williams, Mariesha Piggee, Allyson Sample, Brittany Greer and Tiffany Moore. And there's Katie Nicholson too – although she's redshirting this year.
I don't know for sure if Reddick was even a scholarship player, so I wouldn't chalk that up as some big recruiting error. With Reynolds, who's to say it wasn't a deal where she was such an exceptional talent you take a risk on her knowing there's a chance she might not make it, but the reward potential is so high you can't pass it up?
You know you've got a good team without her, but if you can get her in, then you've got a great one. You enter it with the mindset she might never play, but if she does then it's a huge bonus.
There's a big difference in football and basketball, too. You don't have to have a lot of depth in basketball to be successful. Heck, look at least year's Sugar Bears team. They had seven or eight players for most of the season.
1. Renita Dobbins
2. Carone Harris
3. Caronica Randle
4. Micaela Thomas
5. Victoria Richards
6. Traci Graham
7. Shamille Taylor
8. Alicia Kellogg
and that's it. Eight players. And I think Renita missed some time in there, too, leaving them with seven players for a stretch. That team did okay.
You don't have to be great 1-12 in basketball. You can afford a bust or two as long as it's not the people you were really depending upon to be the centerpiece of your team.