I feel like many are penalizing the staff for targeting top transfers. We were never the favorite (almost could say all were long shots) in the recruitment of top grad transfer guards/wings Alstork, Egor, Crawford, and Brown. It felt like we had a decent shot at Brown because he visited Ames and things went well, but ultimately I never got the feeling we would be able to pry him off the West Coast and away from 2 teams that were in the Final Four this past year.
Juiston was a deal that was out of our control. It was certainly unfortunate as he would of had an immediate impact next year, but how things played out was no fault of the staff. I certainly think you can write this one off as an anomaly.
I never was really sure if Darryl Edwards was a for sure take. A good but not great JuCo guard is always a risky endeavor. I was never sold on him and how he would fit in with the current roster so I wasn't really disappointed at all to see him head elsewhere.
Morrow is certainly frustrating because it felt like it was 50/50 and he would of been a huge front court boost as someone who has already produced at the Power 5 level. Competing against Marquette and Xavier for his services was stiff competition for the staff. However, we essentially shot 50% on similar targets as they were able to pull Shayok who was also being courted by Baylor and Marquette.
I guess my point is you have to look at each case individually. Morrow would be the one that I'm disappointed about this Spring but with that being said I understand why he would choose Marquette. I'm hopeful they can land one more sit out player that we can look forward to in 2018/2019.