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huskyhooligan said:

Yeah his father actually said they haven't been contacted since the decommit (7-8 days ago). Also stated they got the impression Romar has other players lined up and working on and understands Romar doesn't and really at this point can't be left holding the bag on signing day and has moved on.

We don't like recruiting or signing players other Big 5 schools would actually take. We prefer the WAC and Big sky types. You know, the FIU washouts. We're not going to get caught dead taking someone Arizona may take, or god forbid Oregon.

Doogles said:

Roman giving the cold shoulder to any top 100 player in the area seems suicidal considering one of the main arguments for keeping him is keeping the local talent at home.

Something about this seems strange all around. Having a dad come to a message board seems like a high maintenance overly involved family presence.

I'm sure it's a headache to recruit, but At the end of the day, if he can play when the ball is rolled out you need to make an effort.

Romar is dangerously close to tarnishing his legacy if it comes out he already threw in the white towel and is just cashing checks.

He needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat in a bad way or this will go down as lesson 101 on how not to leave with dignity.

Seriously embarrassing shit surrounding the men's bball program.

There is no legacy if he is fired after this year. I think Romar is trying to survive next year by piecing together another great class. A middle Pac 12 finish and another good class and Romar is the coach for another year. Then he might make a tourney and will be able to stay until retirement or until the next 3-4 year drought.

Romar is lazy. I'm don't know dick, but there really isn't another answer. He missed out on the big guns and had no realistic fall back plans. Sounds pretty lazy to me. I think now he's actually trying to remedy the situation, but it is likely too late. From 2010-2014, yeah he was essentially cashing checks.

RoadDawg55 said:

Doogles said:

Roman giving the cold shoulder to any top 100 player in the area seems suicidal considering one of the main arguments for keeping him is keeping the local talent at home.

Something about this seems strange all around. Having a dad come to a message board seems like a high maintenance overly involved family presence.

I'm sure it's a headache to recruit, but At the end of the day, if he can play when the ball is rolled out you need to make an effort.

Romar is dangerously close to tarnishing his legacy if it comes out he already threw in the white towel and is just cashing checks.

He needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat in a bad way or this will go down as lesson 101 on how not to leave with dignity.

Seriously embarrassing shit surrounding the men's bball program.

There is no legacy if he is fired after this year. I think Romar is trying to survive next year by piecing together another great class. A middle Pac 12 finish and another good class and Romar is the coach for another year. Then he might make a tourney and will be able to stay until retirement or until the next 3-4 year drought.

Romar is lazy. I'm don't know dick, but there really isn't another answer. He missed out on the big guns and had no realistic fall back plans. Sounds pretty lazy to me. I think now he's actually trying to remedy the situation, but it is likely too late. From 2010-2014, yeah he was essentially cashing checks.

Pretty much agree

He's either lazy or just no prepared.

I barely follow college basketball anymore, but the way I see it, there are two routes to go since ca. 2009:

You can either go for a lot of all-Americans who will probably be one or two and dones and maybe one merely good player who will stay all four years per class...or maybe two. That's the way Calimari, Sean Miller, and Bill Selfish (I think) go. And Coach KKK too. Maybe whomever is at NC too. If you're not at a CBB royalty school, like Warshington (HI DAMONE!!!), this route is pretty difficult, if not impossible.

Otherwise, you need to build your team with good, team oriented players who probably won't be ready to make the NBA first round within a year, or possibly even after four, and sprinkle in whatever top 20 players you can find. It's kind of what Gonfaga has done If you can get the great players, OK, but they need to somehow not turn into Tony Wrotens and just play wild....if possible.

Romar was able to get a few of the elite/near elite players several years ago, but it didn't really stick. After about 2011, the talent he was getting took a hit and we have the crap teams now because he's not a good coach who can turn 18-20 win talent into 21-24 win talent. Instead, he's turned it into 16 win talent, or whatever the hell number of gaymes we've been winning.

That's my unresearched, possibly flawed assessment....