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[tower912]

Or, sign a 4 star seven footer, get him to skip his final year of high school, and pay him to redshirt and develop with the players, coaches, and training staff.

[wadesworld]

Or, sign a 4 star seven footer, get him to skip his final year of high school, and pay him to redshirt and develop with the players, coaches, and training staff.

Right.  Shaka misplayed his hand this season.  Let's see how he responds before we decide a guy with a Final Four to his name and some great results in his first four seasons here doesn't know what he's doing in this era of college basketball.

[MU82]

Sure.

Chad Venning. Averaged double figures at Boston College as a grad transfer after leaving St. Bonaventure.

Baba Miller. Though I guess we don't have the money to out bid Florida Atlantic.

David Skogman, a Wisconsin kid and grad transfer who averaged 6 and 5 for DePaul after averaging 13 and 5 as a senior (or maybe we can't outbid DePaul).

There are three guys who could have contributed more than Hamilton and Clark to a team that badly needed a center that may have prevented a first-round exit last year.

In this new era of college basketball, playing the long game and hoping for development isn't like it was 5 years ago

20/20 hindsight.

But sure, Shaka could have had both Venning and Clark on last year's 15-man roster, with Venning giving us valuable minutes and Clark redshirting. But what we really needed last year IMHO was a veteran backup PG and better shooting. Of course, that's 20/20 hindsight on my part, because Shaka thought Jones was coming back and didn't foresee Kam and Jop suddenly being unable to hit 3s.