When the "misses" on these players becomes a trend you can't continue to blame the players. At what point do you decide that it's the coaching staff who can't coach up the talent they get?
As a Coach on the collegiate level, if you don't have the talent and lose....its your own fault.....if you do have the talent and lose....it's your own fault....and that's all there is to it.....
I'm still ____ed our staff passed on surefire guys like Vernon Butler, O'Shea Dugas because they either didn't want to anger current commits, or out of pure stubbornness.
I'd bet my house that we didn't pass on Vernon Butler. As far as I remember he had an offer here along with about 10 other schools.
When the "misses" on these players becomes a trend you can't continue to blame the players. At what point do you decide that it's the coaching staff who can't coach up the talent they get?
Never blame players.
Never blame a player whose doing everything he needs to do to get better. Even ones that don't are coaching errors.