[Mick]

In retrospect, Trent Johnson's mishandling of Jeremy Lin's recruitment was his biggest mistake.  If we hadn't jerked him around, we could have had 4 players that ended up in the NBA on our team.

Well, wait a second.  Lin was nowhere near ready coming out of high school.  he applied to Stanford, Cal and UCLA, but they all wanted him to walk on.  He applied to all of the Ivies, but only Harvard and Brown would even guarantee him a spot on the team.  And his Harvard coach told the Paly coach that Lin was a "Division III player."  Kerry Keating, recently fired SCU coach was the UCLA assistant who offered Lin a walk on spot and said in retrospect that Lin would probably end up starting at UCLA.  As a Sophomore at Harvard, he didn't even start, when Stanford beat Harvard 111-56.  Lin was 0-6 from the field, had 5 personal fouls, no rebounds, no steals, no assists.  0-3 from 3 point range.

Lin worked his tail off, made second team all-Ivy his soph year, then continually improved through his senior year.  But he wasn't ready for Pac 12 ball as a high school senior.

[Mick]

In retrospect, Trent Johnson's mishandling of Jeremy Lin's recruitment was his biggest mistake.  If we hadn't jerked him around, we could have had 4 players that ended up in the NBA on our team.

Well, wait a second.  Lin was nowhere near ready coming out of high school.  he applied to Stanford, Cal and UCLA, but they all wanted him to walk on.  He applied to all of the Ivies, but only Harvard and Brown would even guarantee him a spot on the team.  And his Harvard coach told the Paly coach that Lin was a "Division III player."  Kerry Keating, recently fired SCU coach was the UCLA assistant who offered Lin a walk on spot and said in retrospect that Lin would probably end up starting at UCLA.  As a Sophomore at Harvard, he didn't even start, when Stanford beat Harvard 111-56.  Lin was 0-6 from the field, had 5 personal fouls, no rebounds, no steals, no assists.  0-3 from 3 point range.

Lin worked his tail off, made second team all-Ivy his soph year, then continually improved through his senior year.  But he wasn't ready for Pac 12 ball as a high school senior.