RE: My biggest complaint about Kim is they waited until age 60
Posted on: September 19, 2016 at 14:27:26 CT
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Albert White had already decided to turn pro. Dooling/Gilbert had already expressed strong frustrations and a desire to likely transfer. John Woods and Monte Hardge had used up their eligibility. Kareem Rush was not going to sign with Kim.
So his first year at MU would have likely be a team composed of:
Brian Grawer
Jeff Hafer
Johnnie Parker
Josh Kroenke (assuming he honored his committment)
TJ Soyoye (assuming he honored his committment)
Pat Schumaker
Matt Rowan
Kenge Stevenson
Mark Wampler
And whomever Kim was able to land at the last minute as an initial recruiting class. It was not an ideal time to be turning to a coach with a lack of recruiting skills and connections (I do wonder if he would have kept Rich Daly as an assistant). I think that most would say there is a strong probability that team would have done even worse than Kim's eventual first MU 9 win team did, it certainly would have been considerably less talented.