Gopher Hoops Recruiting and What About the Local Kids?
This has been a strange recruiting cycle for the Gopher basketball program. After yesterday's announcement by Theo John that he'll be attending Marquette and McKinley Wright will be taking his skills to Dayton, the Gophers have officially gone 0-5 with local kids who have high-major talent. It can be very easy to take that 0-5 stat and make some pretty broad assumptions. On the other hand you do have to take the entire situation if you have any intention of having a fair conversation about this. But the ultimate result is that Pitino and staff absolutely have to be right with the guys they are bringing with the precious few scholarships they have in this recruiting cycle.