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03-14-16 03:20 PM - Post#204445
In response to besnoah
Not sure I agree.
Dallier may have gone to Yale under any circumstance, but he was not our first choice at that position. Matt Howard was Interestingly enough, Jerome's staff didn't aggressively pursue a couple of players who turned out to be outstanding Ivy players. One whom we passed on was none other than Justin Sears who the staff thought was flawed. There were others including big Cedric who was marginal academically and they didn't see him as a difference maker. And of course Lo was playing Prep ball under former Penn coach Chris Sparks. It certainly seems like we made some misjudgments, which may have been the bigger problem than simply getting outrecruited.
As for the others you mentioned, one must recognize that Boudreux had significant Dartmouth connections and that was difficult to overcome. Brennen isn't that good and wasn't a Penn priority.
I'm not saying our recruiting has been where it should be but I think Brodeur will be a star in the league and we all seem to be overlooking Matt MacDonald who might really help next year.
I'm clearly disappointed we didn't bring in another big this year, but there is still time between guys still floating around and the myriad of transfers, some who have surfaced with more likely to come with all the coaches being fired.
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