What a weirdly angry post, Pilch. My point is that we only have four commits from US HS recruits through three recruiting classes and the highest ranked recruit is leaving.
Mike Young has four US HS recruits in the 2022 class, so I don't know why you're making that comparison.
The 2022 HS class is Young's 4th recruiting class at VT, he was hired a year before Forbes. Forbes' 2023 class with be his 4th recruiting class for WF. So, VT's 2022 class is not a relevant comparison to Forbes recruiting efforts to date.
The point is that, through his first 3 years at VT, Young had essentially the same recruiting profile as Forbes, if, for whatever reason, the "standard" is landing top 100 US ranked recruits (which seems pretty random given that Keller was #79 by 247, but #116 in the composite ranking, so, I guess Forbes gets zero credit for landing him or for landing recruits ranked between 100 and 200 in 2021). Young won the ACC Title in his 3rd year at VT with landing one top 100 recruit in his first 3 recruiting classes, and that recruit transferred.
You threw out a stat: Forbes has recruited one top 100 US recruit, and he transferred.
This is a passive aggressive and misleading attack on Forbes' recruiting as if every recruit rated 101 and above is the same (we all understand there is ranking degradation when a player signs with WF), as if Forbes isn't trying to overcome the stained legacy left behind by previous coaching disasters, and as if WF's recruiting wasn't hampered by the pandemic which limited Forbes ability to get recruits on campus or visit them. Interpersonal interaction is Forbes strength. If you think, Forbes' recruiting has been weak, say that. Given the circumstances, I could not disagree more. Just amazing the angst around here about a program that Forbes transformed from a talentless 6-16 (3-16) to 25-10 (13-8) in one year.
Crazy to me how so many people around here are in a funk still over the BC loss. Yes, it sucked. Even so, the larger picture is that WF basketball hasn't been in a better place in 15 years.