The Royals are virtually certain not to mess up their first pick with many strong picks available to them at their turn.

Jeff Herr and Ryan Wood have profiled the potential selections when it gets to the Royals.  If you’ve missed them, you can catch up from the list below: (more…)

That means I saw a lot of Roy Williams.  He seemed to have a pattern of pulling in one big recruiting class then taking the next season off, getting roleplayers into the program instead.  Then he’d be right back to getting stars.  Bill Self took over in 2003 and since has brought in strong classes every year.  Maybe the results aren’t there every season, but Self has lost players to the NBA and kept a strong team year after year.  Roy had a few down seasons after strong classes would graduate.

Turning to the Royals, if you’ve followed the franchise for any length of time – and I’ve been a fan since kindergarten – you know that the Royals have been in a rebuilding mode since about 1995.  Blame what you want: bad draft strategy, penny-pinching, plain old bad luck.  The Royals have been bad and for a very long time.

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