[Redacted] broke Racer. It's a shame, because he used to be a good poster. Hopefully the good news will continue, with results behind it, and he can rehab some of his optimism.
-It's important for the class to seal the deal with some recruits next month and do what we were unable to do last year in putting some top-100 recruits around our star. While you can't fault the staff for losing a recruit to Arizona, adding Randolph last year would have made a statement and made it a class rather than looking like a one-off. Sarr helped with that, but we need bodies.
-To that end, I hope we'll find a way to squeeze in both forwards and one of the guards if they want to come. By my count, we have one scholarship available, which means we would need two of Crawford going pro (I think he'll stay, but seem to be in the minority there), Childress machinations, and transfers, which should be doable. On the other thread, Ranger said we were looking for one forward and one guard, but I think it's odd that we would have Laszewski and Mucius in the same weekend if we didn't have room for both. Those were obviously set before this weekend, but the staff had to know which way Hoard was leaning.
-Thank God we didn't pull the trigger on Johnny Newman a few months ago. Kudos to the staff for trusting themselves and the relationships they had built enough to believe that we could land bigger fish. (This, of course, assumes that we do in fact end up landing some.)
-Words cannot express how happy I am that we went out and conducted a full search to get the best possible assistant rather than just promoting the DBO. I'm sure the DBO is a great guy and good at his job, and I don't have any reason to believe Jones had anything to do with landing Hoard, but he's shown up in a couple of other interviews, and it's good to get the broader connections and different approaches of a guy from another staff rather than keeping everything internal.
-It's starting to get fun again to follow Wake basketball. Let's get a few of those recruits next month, pick up Harris for '19, and get this thing rolling. Go Deacs