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He absolutely should. I'll go: Colton (C), Smith (A), Senden (A), Kierstad (A)

I am too haha. In my defense, I said "think"

Younger hahaha

Sounds like Singleton really wants to be here. Hope that continues.

Gross. Stop lol.

This kid definitely seems like he could be worth the gamble.

Perunovich, Anderson and Shepard were the only ones I REALLY wanted to go. Don't get me wrong, I wish they all left, but those three are the most to fear, IMO. So, two out of three would be cool by me

That's fair. Peaked shouldn't be the word, for sure. Leveled off, currently. I think he'll progress again. So, right now, he's progressed, but not to the first/second round level which we thought he was right away. I don't think leveled off indicates he's done progressing, just that he's no longer got a rocket up his rear end.

This is precisely how I feel. He's supposed to be a Top 6 player. Why have him come in if he's not ready to be that? Give him one more year of development and see if he'll be ready next year.

Totally fair, man. And just because I'm tempering expectations on Rizzo doesn't mean I'm not excited about him. He's a very good player and will be a contributor during his career. Just seems like he may not be the "blue chippa" that we may have thought right away. So be it.

You can do what you want, man. I'm telling you what I'm going to do. I said, it seems like we should... If you want to continue to ignore things like rankings and scouting, by all means, go for it. I was absolutely high on Rizzo. No question about it. Now, it seems like he's peaked, for the moment. So, I've tempered my expectations on HIM and him alone because his initial reports were very, very high. I don't understand how this is a reflection on the pipeline as a whole. If you don't want to be excited about our pipeline, that's cool. Enjoy that.

We can still and will, IMO, have a top 3, or top recruiting class for the next three or four years with the classes as a whole. I've been commenting recently on Rizzo specifically and that people may want to temper expectations on him and him alone. Our overall expectations, from what I've seen, should be really high and we should feel good about our team moving forward. Specifically on Rizzo, I think we should pump the brakes on how immediate his impact will be. Capisce?

So, I'm tempering expectations on ONE player. But, that speaks for the entire pipeline. Got it. I can't eye roll any harder.

Yup. 100% agreed. I definitely am still excited about Rizzo.

I won't say specifically, but I'm very confident who I've been told by and who that person knows. Take it for what it's worth. I'm just afraid to hear down the road some self-fulfilling prophecy. Rizzo will come in, not be the second round type player that people initially thought he'd be and boom, Bubbs can't develop lol. I'm tempering my expectations.

Of course they don't know, but they get paid to make projections.

I should say I don't get the comp, I just think Rizzo is falling off a bit and Corbin was a late riser. Like I said, I think we need to temper expectations on him from everything I've heard and seen. Seems like he's leveled off. Sounds like he'll be a late rounder now.

Not sure I get the Rizzo/Knight comp. Rizzo won't be drafted very high. Had a high grade early, but he's been falling on draft boards for a long time. Seems like he's leveled. Feels like we need to maybe temper expectations on him, a bit ala Donovan.

I think he'd have to take a pretty big jump to leave after two years of college. Definitely not the type of player that is going to leave that early.

I mean, we did just get Shane Pinto!

I think you're spot on, man.

A flyer... Get it?

I think he would have had a chance to contribute for sure, but it's not a bad thing for him to have one more year of development if the staff didn't think he was truly ready, IMO.

Yeah, he didn't have a great year last year, so it's not a bad thing at all for him to get 100% healthy and get some more seasoning.

Well that doesn't suck