I know you're joking, but Ole Leonard has been out-recruiting Pitino lately (see class of '15 and '16 so far). Can't say if it's just good old fashioned hard work or better quality hookers, but I'm not going to question it.
After the Karen Sypher incident, I can conceive that Pitino would be willing to look the other way if frat brothers or even boosters were making sure there were attractive women around. But not if dollars were openly exchanging hands for sex. He had too much going for him already during this time period to have knowingly allowed something like that.
That's a myth. Ham's recruiting has been awful the past few years. He was good for getting a surprise 5 star (usually with caveats like Wafer/Johnson/Kreft) and some under the radar types prior to that, but he's never landed classes like the '15 class and what he's doing so far in '16. This is the first time he is truly landing entire classes full of kids who are on par with the upper level of the ACC teams.
I'd rate 2008 on paper on a par with what 2015 is on paper. We have to wait and see them though.
I noted above that I thought '08 was similar on paper. While that is true of Rivals network paper, a couple other outlets have 2015 clear superior. And today at ACC media day, Ham said this is the best group he's ever brought in.
