So, if our recruiting and coaching are the same, would you say that our coming results will be significantly different? When do you see MAC title under the current program status?
Recruiting has definitely not stayed the same. It has changed several times, both changes when changing coordinators, and changes under the same one. Under Germano, they tended to recruit more players like Croutch, players with few offers, but which they thought had real potential. In 2010-2011 they had new recruiting coordinators, and seemed to play it "safe" by shifting more towards the more mainstream high 2/low 3-star recruits that were rated by the recruiting services. In 2013-2014 they seemed to shift back to more of the under the radar players, players that they think can play, but which have few offers and aren't in the recruiting services. Thus, I see three distinct stages that recruiting has gone through:
2005-9 Mostly under the radar players, few 3-star players, few with other offers
2010-12 More 3-star players, more players with other offers, more players covered by recruiting services
2013-15 Some 3-star players with multiple offers (e.g. Howell, Hagen, Fair) combined with some of the under-the-radar guys (e.g. Hale, Croutch, Maxwell)
So far it seems to be working. Last year's 3-star guys, such as Lowery, McCray, and Walker seem to be very good players, while there is some serious talent in under-the-radar recruits like Preuhs, Brunis, Nelson, and Ouellette. It's the same from 2013, where 3-star guys like Quallen, Morgan, and Alexander have potential, and under the radar guys like Mangen, Cope, Basham, Aloese, Poling and Porter have looked very good.
Note that to figure out which years a recruiting class has the most effect on, you need to look out 3-4 years, to when they are upperclassmen. Thus the 2005-2009 recruits had the most effect from 2008-2012. The 2010-2012 recruits primarily affect 2013-2016. The 2013-2015 recruits will primarily affect 2016-2019.
It seems to me that the under the radar recruits from 2005-2009 worked out better than the more widely recruited players from 2010-2012. Thus I'm happy to see a slight shift back in that direction, along with even better 3-star recruits.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus
Last Edited: 11/25/2014 4:06:54 PM by L.C.