SomeGuy
Professor
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Reg: 11-22-04
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10-04-22 11:14 PM - Post#345024
In response to TheLine
Probably depends on how high you go. Even at the level of high recruits for Ivies, there are guys who aren’t system fits. The highly rated center who played a year at Columbia and then transferred to Michigan leaps to mind. He wasn’t a fit for Engles system. Yet they brought him in anyway. And didn’t change the system.
Of course, you could say the same of Lorca-Lloyd for us.
All that said, while I think system fit does matter, talent matters too. There’s been some discussion of Pete. For all of the narrative of the Princeton system, etc., I think either Pete or Fran would have told you that the team that won the league in those days had the better talent, full stop.
I am optimistic that the commitments we have in next year’s class are talented and will excel at Penn — in Steve’s system. And I think even on paper, they match up fine with Harvard’s recruits for ‘23. Yale with Simmons is another matter.
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