I personally don't think it's worth it....
when you recruit a big the 7 months you get from him is not going to be his best basketball. Not always but usually, if a player is top 15 coming out of HS and they are 6'10 or up. They are looking at the NBA after that one year of college. If they don't make it after one season...most are bust in college. At least if you go by their ranking coming out of HS.
Here's just a few
Grant Jerrett #15 5.2ppg - 3.6rebs
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ett-1.html
Kaleb Tarczewski #9 8.8ppg- 6.5rebs played 135 games for Zona.https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/kaleb-tarczewski-1.html I would take those numbers but not really what you expect out of a top 10 player
Chase Jeter #16 2.1ppg and 2.2 rebs in 48 games for Duke (2 years left)
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ter-1.html
Carlton Bragg Jr. #18 4.4 and 3.2 in 69 games for Kansas
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...gjr-1.html
Stephen Zimmerman #15 10.5 & 8.7 played 1 season at UNLV not bad points or rebounds ...UNLV won 18 games
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...njr-1.html
You can go down the list of top bigs that dont pan out in college or they have decent numbers but it doesn't transfer to wins. I think MR would have been one of these players. I'm not just saying it now...I believed it all along. I would rather have the player that grows into that key player over 4 seasons....leading his team
Players like
Reggie Upshaw
Justin Johnson
George Fant
Trey Freeman
Brandan Stith
I personally love seeing a player grow and watch that leadership develop over time. Those are the players I remember and consider All Stars. I hate the 1 and done and that includes the graduate transfers. Don't mine 1 to fill a hole every now and then. But not as a key part of recruiting year after year.
The YG in my user name stands for young guns. I like seeing a 18 year old grow into a player and leader and hopefully winner on the court. These hired guns will not be the players I think of 5, 10, 15 years from now. That might have been different when I was 40 or younger...
Maybe then, winning the water cooler bragging on recruiting was more important to me. I don't think so but I know its not today.