St. Mary's is the target

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That’s a long ramble but I think BYU will be served to follow the St. Marys’ model rather than the Kentucky model. BYU will never get Kentucky caliber players but they can get a few top 100 recruits and coach them up. They can recruit better athletes than St. Marys but they are a lot closer in talent to St. Marys than Kentucky. I think BYU could make a final four with the kind of players they recruit but it will require a bit different formula than they have followed. Butler made 2 final fours with the kind of talent BYU usually has. I know Gordon Hayward played on one of those teams but the one that finished runner up in 2011 didn’t have Hayward and to the best of my knowledge it didn’t have any future NBA players. With Brandon Davies I think BYU would have beaten the 2011 Butler team. They were on schedule to be a number 1 seed and it went up in smoke.

You hit the nail on the head, Reed. I also think that Schroyer has BYU playing close to a SMC’s game right now. In what world would we see TJ taking 8 total shots in 36 minutes of play and just 1 shot in an entire half? But leading the team in assists with 7, that is what we saw last night. The old TJ would have had 15 shots and manybe 3 assists. Rose really ought to think about turning TJ into a better scoring Emmitt Naar.