[washingtonismoney]

Certainly Dawkins has recruited well in the past, but if players do not develop the recruiting will dry up soon.  I disagree with you on this.  Injuries may help explain lack of development in some players, but I don't think it explains all.  Sure, Domingo is a single recruit.  But I'm guessing we would have a much better shot at recruiting if players coming out of HS see actual progress from year to year with both the team and the development of individual players.

Except the other players have developed. Bright was a completely different (and better) player his second season than his first, Randle developed throughout the season...Gage developed to a lesser extent. Nastic is a stiff so I don't blame Dawkins for not developing him. Zimmerman got better every year. Owens developed a ton under Dawkins's watch. Mann didn't really develop but I view that as a Nastic-type problem--there's little natural talent there in the first place. (Now, if you want to ask why Mann played so much, there's an excellent question.)

It's hard to look at Stanford basketball and conclude development is a problem. What I would conclude is rotations, substitutions, timeouts, and other in-game management is a brobdingnagian problem--in fact, the primary problem with the Dawkins era going forward. (There were some brobdingnagian problems that just won't be an issue going forward--for example, the 2008 Olympics debacle won't be repeated.)

[washingtonismoney]

Certainly Dawkins has recruited well in the past, but if players do not develop the recruiting will dry up soon.  I disagree with you on this.  Injuries may help explain lack of development in some players, but I don't think it explains all.  Sure, Domingo is a single recruit.  But I'm guessing we would have a much better shot at recruiting if players coming out of HS see actual progress from year to year with both the team and the development of individual players.

Except the other players have developed. Bright was a completely different (and better) player his second season than his first, Randle developed throughout the season...Gage developed to a lesser extent. Nastic is a stiff so I don't blame Dawkins for not developing him. Zimmerman got better every year. Owens developed a ton under Dawkins's watch. Mann didn't really develop but I view that as a Nastic-type problem--there's little natural talent there in the first place. (Now, if you want to ask why Mann played so much, there's an excellent question.)

It's hard to look at Stanford basketball and conclude development is a problem. What I would conclude is rotations, substitutions, timeouts, and other in-game management is a brobdingnagian problem--in fact, the primary problem with the Dawkins era going forward. (There were some brobdingnagian problems that just won't be an issue going forward--for example, the 2008 Olympics debacle won't be repeated.)