Josiah James
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Same tune, different year.
It doesn't matter what his top-4 says. Dude is going to Duke. I get so sick of the Blue Blood schools coming in and cherry picking the top talent from our state.
Particularly since we have been to a Final Four and everything.
You can come up with every excuse in the book but how many coaches do you see still having success with the on court personality that our coach has? I like Coach Martin, love his passion but the lifeline of a program is recruiting and our's is at a point where we can't pull top talent from our state. I just don't think top kids will ever be attracted to our program because of on court demeanor. (hope I'm wrong)
If you can't build on a Final Four then what do you have left to sale?
I think we will be ok this year, have some talent coming in but we take a lot of projects. Hoping Coach gets it turned around and finds a way to bring in talent from within our state.
You need to get a life and quit with all the FFF stuff(as if it’s demeaning—news flash: it’s not).
Respectfully, we ought to be well beyond "ok" by now.
If that's true, well, I don't want to get into what it means if that's true.
I agree. My feeling is if you make it to Final Four and still can't get recruits from own state then something is wrong.
Recruiting is the backbone of good programs and if you can't recruit well year in and year out then you'll never have a sustainable, quality program.
No good excuse for missing on all these guys. If I were FM, I would probably fire all of my assistants. Like WM says...If you can’t recruit, you can’t work here.
I think you are spot on. Football and baseball look to be in good hands with their recruiting efforts.
Not to mention girls B ball has shown they can pack em in the stadium with good teams. Get the good players and the fans will be there. Between Bowen not ever playing and missing on Zion and these 19 guys it just seems like we’re totally missing the jump start this program needed after the final four run.
I just can’t believe a final four hasn’t paid dividends
I just can’t believe a final four hasn’t paid dividends
Alabama beat us for an in state recruit.
Basketball season tickets are considered a punishment for Bama fans.
Frank Martin just can't recuit.
Basketball season tickets are considered a punishment for Bama fans.
Frank Martin just can't recuit.
It's hard....but we are managing to succeed in doing it.
Bama was top 15 in basketball attendance nationally last year so they do care. Frank cant keep guys instate though.
I don't understand all the hand wringing; it doesn't matter if the players are from in-state or out-of-state. Frank signed a good class this year and a decent class last year.
Perhaps. I wasn't impressed...thought it was pretty much the same caliber of player he has been getting. But he will have the time to prove it as the FF bought him at least 3 more years.
