so here's yosh's very cogent point to get started.
Agreed. Right now, if Judge leaves early, we'd be looking at going into the 12 class needing to fill basically the enitre frontcourt.
so, yeah, that's the huge risk, if judge leaves as a jr. you're looking at going into 2012 with all new bigs plus jh-r. scary.
i'll take the other side of the debate, whether i believe it or not: the 2011 class is poor in bigs, and kstate isn't mentioned with any that are any good. they only have 2 left to give, and it'd be easy to fill those with fall 2011 guards. williams and southwell have decent size to give some post minutes, if necessary. the 2012 class probably has the best group of 3 bigs ks has ever produced (has ks ever had 3 high major bigs come out in the same year?). nationwide, the 2012 class is deep with bigs too. should be much easier to sell bigs in 2012 than 2011. any 2011 big is going to come in knowing he has very little opportunity for minutes as a freshman.