(10-19-2016 03:41 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: (10-19-2016 12:28 PM)BlazintheATL Wrote: I guess he's become a top priority since we've missed on everyone else.
Way to make the guy feel welcome.
Consider this...
Ehsan and his staff walked in to a very difficult situation this past spring. One would think having just won 26 games we would have solid momentum going in to the Summer recruiting season. That would have been the case if Haase and Wulbrun were still at UAB.
Look at Alex Reese for example. Wulbrun and Haase were his guys. They had been all in on him since 2014. All of the sudden they are gone and Ehsan is left picking up the pieces of a relationship that had been built over many years. The same can be said with Herb Jones.
Ehsan, and give him credit for it, didn't give up on Reese. He stayed with him all the way up to Reese deciding to go to Alabama. The time Ehsan spent chasing Reese was time he couldn't spend chasing other recruits. Our commitment to Reese effected every single post-type player we missed on these past few months. That was a risk they were willing to take and unfortunately it didn't work out.
Taveion hasn't been so high on our radar for a lot of different reasons and it's not because he's thought less of. We spent months chasing higher rated players at his same position because once again, we were trying to capitalize on the progress that had been made by the former staff.
The state of Kentucky doesn't get near the exposure that other Southern states do by the recruiting services. Scout has him as a 3 star and that's worth taking to the bank. Scout, in my opinion, is the most reputable and consistently accurate of all the services.