Originally Posted by
Kedsy
Well, no I don't. But that doesn't have much to do with my response to your comment. What you said was "at some point we're actually going to need to land some frontcourt players." I'm saying that probably won't happen with 2014 recruits (other than Okafor and Turner, assuming Travis is moving on without us).
First of all, if Okafor and Turner decide to go elsewhere, we're still recruiting Jones and Winslow. If we get one or both of them we'd have 9 or 10 recruited scholarship players and a pretty good rotation, albeit a rotation in which our SF may only be 6'4 or so.
Second, if we fail to get any of our priority recruits, we'd probably attempt the fifth-year-senior-immediate-transfer route, rather than "expand the net" to pick up lesser high school players.
Finally, if everything else failed to provide high quality players for the 2014-15 roster, which I strongly doubt will happen, then yes -- rather than scrounge for players outside or at the bottom of the top 100 who probably wouldn't play much anyway, I'd guess we'd go into the season with just 8 guys (plus walk-ons). That's more or less what we did in 1999-2000, and it worked out OK.
Still, I'm not getting worried about that just yet.