Time to move on

[xukeith]

Tyrique Jones played 4 years . He is arguably the best rebounder in X history. Steele AND Mack recruited him because they both were on the same staff.

Also Last fall or the year prior, X pushed extremely hard in recruiting Ben Carlson (sp?). He committed to Wisconsin.
This past fall in October, X was recruiting a forward (Ty Rodgers) HS prospect from Michigan. He was narrowing his list of schools to MSU, Michigan and Illinois.
He just committed to Illinois.
I like the big men transfers that Mack and Steele get at X. Big transfers are usually better than frosh big men.

[MHettel]

He was originally Mack’s recruit. That’s also true. Of course Steele recruited him if he was recruiting for Mack.

And as I’ve stated from the beginning, what PF that Mack recruited from HS has panned out? It hasn’t been and continues he’s to not be a priority for how he constructs his teams. You disagree with that?

Lets play "timeline"!

March 24- Hankins wins Nat'l Championship at Ferris State

March 27- Mack hired at UofL

March 31- Steele hired at XU

April 7- Hankins commits to XU


So, it would have been impermissible for Mack to "recruit" Hankins up until March 24. And you are suggesting that the last 3 days he spent as an XU coach were focused on recruiting Hankins, rather than finalizing the terms of his 28M contract with UofL.

Ok.

(hands the shovel back to Drudy...)

btw, last time I checked Steele recruited Freemantle who was All-Freshman and then All BE , and BE Most Improved Player in his first 2 years. He's currently a 3rd year player that is coming off an injury and hasnt found his groove.

Griffin and Stanley BOTH fit the bill as physical bigs. Both have had issues (Griffin with Covid stuff, Stanley with ACL).

You should rethink your argument....since it's sinking.

Recruiting guys that may not have worked out is different than not recruiting a certain type of guy.

[drudy23]

Obviously Steele recruited them - under Mack's direction as to who to recruit. At this point, you're just using semantics to argue. So as the title of the thread says....

Time to Move On

If you think we're solid at the PF position, you do you.

[Xuperman]

Xavier had a system and a brand for a long time, and it was working. He could have made a tweak here and there that fit his vision but kept in line with what Xavier has been.

Steele has finally returned to an old X standard and Byron Larkin's favorite metric....... make more FTs than your opponent attempts!