Yeah, see, I can forgive Fred for not bagging Chucky Hepburn. He was leaving a program better than Nebraska's and ended up at a program better than Nebraska's. The only reason NU even comes up in a conversation about Hepburn is because he's from Nebraska, so I had no expectation that he would land in Lincoln.
But go back and look at the shit ton of point guards who entered the transfer portal last spring, many of them from mid-majors or lower-tier power 5 programs. Lawrence was not a true PG, but he was the closest thing Fred had to one on roster. As soon as he left, PG needed to be the top priority - a fact discussed here quite frequently last spring. Instead, NU ends up with a utility man from Utah who was a somewhat serviceable ball-handler but never, ever a PG, and a standstill shooter from Wisconsin who cannot handle the ball to save his life.
There's no way in Hell that there were no mid-major or even Division II PGs that couldn't have filled this need better than those two. I'm not talking about a star player who was well-established at a power conference program, I'm just talking about someone who is, you know, ACTUALLY A POINT GUARD. This is the blunder that falls squarely at Fred's feet, not the fact that Chucky Hepburn went to Louisville.