Are we better than last year?

[Lennys Tap]

Hard work is an admirable thing, it's also not exclusive to JUCO kids.  Just as not all JUCO kids bust their butts either. 

We will continue to recruit JUCOs, there will be transfers into the program, and on occasion there will be guys that we take a flyer on academically.  It just won't be 40% to 50% of the roster anymore.  Nor does it have to be to be successful.

Some of you make it out like a zero sum game, it isn't.

In the last 7 years of the Crean era we took 4 "academic flyers" on non qualifiers - Wade, Marcus Jackson, Jamil Lott and Trend Blackledge. 5 if you count prep school grad Lazar Hayward. In Buzz's 6 years we took 2 - Bucks and Crowder. Three if you count prep school grad Todd Mayo. Kinsella, Butler, Fulce and DJO qualified to access Marquette's parking lot out of high school.