It seems to me that recruiting a top flight class as coach Grant did when he brought in Cooper, Randolph, Lacy and others that year, just didn't pan out for one reason or the other. With the turnover you have in basketball failed classes are killers, just look at Kentucky last year. I think some times a highly ballyhooed class has an opposite outcome than what you expect it would. Guys come in believing the hype and when things don't start out gang busters they get down on themselves. Once that happens it can linger until they move on to another team, say the pro's.
Without all the accolades of greatness following them and high expectations, they can regain their confidence and actually turn around their careers and become what folks expected of them in the first place. I really don't know what a coach can do to keep situations like that from happening, considering you never know how a player will do at the next level when recruiting him. Its really a crap shoot at times. Sometimes those classes work out like the one Calipari recruited that won the national championship a few years ago at Kentucky.
Recruiting is all on the coaches though and I am glad coach Grant is being given another year.
