I have no idea, but could it be Mike couldn’t recruit higher rated, or should I say players with more “stars”, due to his “personality”? Maybe this coach may have a “personality” more attractive to some 3/4/5 star athletes.
I guess we will just have to wait and see!.
Look, let's not play revisionist history here when it comes to Lotief. How many consecutive regionals has the program played in during his and Stefni's tenure? They did it with a 3rd of the budget that most P5 programs have competed with and with a number of athletes like Sanders and Myers that were not big time prospects. They guy flat out wrote the book on the Split Grip and is known as one of, if not the top hitting coaches in NCAA College Softball.
Mike Lotief's tenure is over and I'm happy Glasco has the job. He has great credentials, but before we elect him to the hall of fame, I want to see if he can run a college program. In the mean time, no matter what you think of Lotief today, he is a hall of fame coach period.
It's much easier recruiting to Georgia and Texas A&M than UL. They have far more to offer in money (Stipend) and the scholarships are worth more as well. He will find it much harder to recruit the top players in Texas, Georgia and Florida over the Top SEC and Big 12 programs. I will be ecstatic if he steals a few here or there, but he is also going to have to develop athletes. If he can do those two things, he should be fine.
That's what I'm saying. Tony deserves more than what he is getting now and from what I read even with incentives tony doesn't make 262k
http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/...8bd0c3566.html
The best class he ever recruited was Ranked 7th by ESPN that year, consisted of Ashley Brignac, Katy Smith,Christi Orgeron, Donna Bourgeois and Gabby Bridges. To my knowledge, he never finished in the Top 25 in recruiting classes since then.
He did recruit a number of very good players out of Texas, but none of them were All-Americans and there were others like Meyers and Cherry that were just good all-district players, but not all-state.
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