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Originally Posted by HCSmooth
Some Wisconsin fans are as susceptible to this line of nonsense about their coach/talent as anyone and it's unfortunate that we/they are unable to appreciate just how many talented, quality kids Bo Ryan has been recruiting. Though in defense of some of them, Brian Butch never looks the part of a great talent/athlete. Another aspect of it is that Bo Ryan has had about 3 NBA players since he's been coach. I'm not sure if he recruited any of them. Kirk Penney is one of them and he only had a cup of coffee. So far Alando Tucker has had about a cup of coffee as well. Devin Harris is doing pretty well. But if you compare Wisconsin to other programs around the country who have had similar success since Bo took over you'd probably find that they have had less NBA-level talent than most. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but there aren't many teams that have won as much as the Badgers have lately to begin with.
Bo Ryan is obviously a tremendous coach. He has tremendous talent to work with. He just hasn't been blessed with the One-and-done types, and part of that might be by design. Part of that might be the perception recruits have of Bo and Wisconsin. I think the talent-level of Wisconsin has been steadily increasing over the past few years and that they are getting more athletic moving into next year.
Whether this pushes them further than they've been...stay tuned. But anyone who watches the Badgers or follows them should know full well that they've got a really talented team and that Bo Ryan isn't sprinkling any magic dust on a manure pit and turning it into a souffle.
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Oh i know hes a good coach. I was making a joke about the article someone posted the other day that was talking about how Bo Ryan was one of the best coaches in the nation at doing so well with so little talent (even though they had as many 4/5 stars as we had this year)