Palacios was the 8th leading scorer on his team as a senior, behind a noteworthy like Andre McGee. That screams Pitino success story.
Clark, Caracter, Jennings, Samuels... None of those guys could scratch a Final Four while overlapping play on the same teams.
You gotta be kidding including Behanan as a Pitino success. We could start a thread on him alone.
But I didn't say he couldn't coach any 5-star kids. I said he shouldn't have recruited any, and these little case histories make the point. Does everyone need to end up a dud for that to be true? No. It just needs to consistently happen to say "avoid them"...