Bird in the hand.
Coach Smith who recruited him to San Francisco and rerecruited him to WSU. Gave him the sixth most minutes per game on the team. Started him most times when guard starter was out. Has watched him in practice for two years and in games and game film for two years seems to disagree with you. How much time was Rosario getting?
Like I said, there is no question that Rapp during his freshman, sophmore year, years, was, is better then Rosario's Freshman year, BUT ONLY BECAUSE:
1. ROSARIO WEIGHED LESS THEN A PIECE OF PAPER THAT YOU COULD BLOW ON HIM AND HE WOULD FALL OVER.
2. BECAUSE OF THAT HE WAS PRACTICALLY, OR ALMOST COMPLETELY REDSHIRTED
3. THE ONLY REASON FOR THAT WAS FOR HIM TO PUT ON WEIGHT.
4. THE ONLY REASON HE PLAYED INSTEAD OF COMPLETING HIS REDSHIRT TO PUT ON MORE WEIGHT, WAS BECAUSE OF INJURIES, AND BECAUSE HE ROSARIO WAS DOING TO GOOD IN PRACTICE TO NOT HAVE HIM PLAY.
ROSARIO, is, was a 4, FOUR STAR, ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATED RECRUITS IN ALL OF WSU HISTORY.
HE Rosario had lots of good offers from good programs, many of which better then WSU, that Smith beat out for Rosario.
You dont recruit such a player, if your a WSU, to practically Redshirt, and then encourage them to transfer next season, because Rapp is supposedly TEMPORARILY better, more developed.
Rosario is 6 foot 7 inches, and is a SEAN ELLIOT, MALIK SEALY TYPE HYBRID, that can play the 2,3,4 spots, that is EXTREMELY ATHLETIC, but RAW as all Heck.
Rapp is, was a 2.5 star, 2 star by some recruit ranking services, and 3 stars by other recruit ranking services, and either didnt have hardly any good offers, an or at least had LESS offers, LESS GOOD OFFERS then Rosario.
Rosario has a HIGHER POTENTIAL TO HAVE A HIGHER UPSIDE, HIGHER CEILING then Rapp, who lack of Lateral quickness was EXPOSED by REMY, VERGE of ASU, and by others.
While Rapp is now temporarily better then Rosario, that wont ve the case for long.
And by the time, by the end of Rosario's Soph year, to beginning of Rosario's Junior year, at the latest, Rosario will be BETTER then Rapp.
I guarantee you, that if Smith, Shaw, Phelps, etc, had to get 1 more in addition to Kunc, to leave to make a scholly available for Tari, Green, and if they had to choose between either encouraging Rapp to Transfer, or encouraging Rosario to transfer, to free up a scholly, that they would choose to have Rosario stay, and encourage Rapp to Transfer to free up that scholly.
Once Rosario puts on some WEIGHT, and once Rosario loses his RAWNESS, and develops, and gets more skilled, etc, Rosario probably will be better then Rapp.
Guarantee that Rapp gets 13 to 23 minutes per game this coming next season.
Rosario will get about 15 to 30 minutes per game, depending on how much, if he develops, as a semi unknown for this coming season.
But by the next season after this coming next season, Rosario will get about 33 minutes per game, while Rapp would get about 15 to 26 minutes per game.
The college game LIKE the NBA is about LIKELY UPSIDE CEILING POTENTIAL.
And Rosario is HIGHER UPSIDE, CEILING POTENTIAL then Rapp.
Now whether Rosario REACHES, PANS OUT HIS ON PAPER HIGHER UPSIDE, HIGHER CEILING, HIGHER POTENTIAL, then Rapp, remains to be seen.