Sweet Jesus. A guy who has been a head coach for about 10 years and has been to three final fours, played in three final games and won two of them.

Wish we had a charlatan like that.

Scipio with a more clearly stated version of the point I made above. AJ should be a 6th man/situation guy. As it is, he’s tossing his tiny frame out there and busting his ass to guard bigger and better guys.

One thing is for sure, if AJ is hot the next few weeks, we’ll be playing the next few weeks.

Bayless is an AAU purchase. CJ Miles went to the NBA. What would you like to do - place a lien on him?

AJ was brought in as a 20 minute 6th man energizer/instant offense dude that we’ve asked to become a 40 minute per game complete guard because we made a couple of recruiting errors and have an injured Byzantine.

AJ deserves our appreciation and respect for working his ass off to fill needs to which he isn’t suited.

The list of top national recruits we’re recruiting the bejeezus out of is lengthy, starting with Tyreke Evans for the ‘08 class. Who knows how many we’ll land but we’re out there giving ourselves solid looks at every one of them.

Pittman is OK, but it’s been two years, he isn’t getting time yet. I mean he has to be in shape by now, right?

We have no depth. We are starting AJ precisely because we can’t get CJ Miles and Jerryd Bayless on campus. Our backup there is JD Lewis.

My question is, is that day coming? Can we stop recruiting good in state players that A&M and LSU want and start recruiting good national players that Duke and UCLA want? We’ve gotten a few. Kansas is stocked with them. We can beat them when they play poorly, but when they are on their game, forget it. It took a herculean effort to stay with them that we couldn’t sustain.

Florida fell off because Donovan is an overrated joke. You could give me 3 lottery picks + Green, who played together for 3 years, and I’d make the tourney. We won’t have that problem with Barnes. We’ll always have Masons. Barnes can’t help himself, and that’s a good thing. I’m not asking to recruit 13 NBA bound guys.

What I want is to not start AJ Abrams, and have more than 0 guys on the bench who can play*.

We have the kid from Port Arthur, who hasn’t signed yet, the kid in 2025 who might not be here by then, and Jordan Hamilton. Can we take the leap up into the elite teams?

* I realize Balbay got hurt and guys like Chapman will be good, just aren’t there yet.

AJ Abrams is a great guy to have on schollie. You just don’t want him to be the starting 2 and playing 35 minutes a game.

Basically, even with the Oden / Durant one and done policy, teams can be decimated so quickly by the NBA it’s hard to keep the talent level steadily high. It’s also not a sure thing that a team packed with Mickey D’s is a recipe for success.

So, I guess your point is silly.