Seeing the types of players Groce would bring into Miami over the next few years compared to us would be a real punch in the gut. He is going to run recruiting circles around Saul unfortunately.
I don't understand this attitude.
We all have great memories of two NCAA runs with Groce, but it seems like his biggest fans on this board only remember those runs. He was barely above .500 in MAC play and never came close to dominating the league. I'm not downplaying those runs, but they were improbable and both years involved razor thin margins in the MAC tournament. One misstep in 2010 and even the CIT doesn't want Ohio. The 2012 MAC tournament? We were at three seed that squeaked past #2 Buffalo by three and won the final by a single point in a dogfight with Akron. We weren't even close to the regular season championship and one different ball bounce would have had us in the CBI. People remember Groce's teams as dominant when they were anything but.
Yup, Groce swung for the fences when recruiting, but where's the evidence that Saul does not? Both Groce and Saul had some misses on recruiting, which is par for the course in midmajor hoops. Slamming Saul's recruiting is pretty much a way of saying we don't have good players. I don't agree with that thesis.