Luckily, Martin is good enough at recruiting he doesn't
Posted on: April 3, 2019 at 10:53:37 CT
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need to put all of his eggs in local recruiting.
While he waned both, he got a capable freshman pg instead of Ramey. While Ramey has been really good for Texas lately, Pinson has a really nice ceiling. He also got Dru Smith to increase depth there.
Same thing with EJ Liddell/Tray Jackson. We probably would have taken both, but Tray Jackson is no consolation prize in these sweepstakes.
He's getting more of the local kids than we've gotten in a very long time. Guys like Cook and Snead are comparable to Watson and McKinney; kids in the lower half of the top 150 that Martin targets, I think we get. We didn't get them before.
The upper level kids are always gonna be tough, because they can go anywhere. Need to get the program back on a winning track (multiple NCAAT seasons) before we can start to see if Martin can consistently land them.