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I don’t think this is necessarily fair for the older coaches. High school basketball in Florida, and South Florida in particular, has grown exponentially in quality, focus, and quantity of top recruits in the last decade.

I thought the big sticking point was how FSU was selling his position as point forward with the offense running through him, and we had him more of a traditional SF role. If I am mistaken, I apologize.

And apparently entirely bungled Barnes recruitment. All of that aside, all we hear about is how the basketball program doesn't make money or have money or whatever. You know what saves a boatload of money? Recruiting locally. It is so unfathomably stupid the way we **** away money and then...

The biggest shame in all of this is Miami was a 100% football town at the youth level until 2010. And then LeBron came. Since then, maybe basketball hasn't overtaken football, but there has been enough local high school talent on an annual basis to recruit locally and become a perennial...

Because he isn’t. The hallmark of Blake James’s tenure, aside from nepotism and an aversion to coaching searches, is waiting a year too long to make a move.

You also have the local sports media do what they do. Barry Jackson tweeted about the bad injury luck this year instead of asking the question why we are on a self-induced scholarship limitation.

All you can do is laugh.

We approach basketball recruiting much like our CB recruiting. It is actually incredible the spot we are in with this roster right now. Almost as incredible are the excuses and mental gymnastics people are coming up with to defend what’s going on.

Building mediocrity to new heights..