Recrouxting

[CajunEXPRESS]

Bumping this thread.

I have no idea what's up with our recruiting this year in football, but we are seriously lagging behind. I didn't pony-up the$$ to make the recruitment dinner a few weeks ago, but something is up. I have several rationales to possibly explain the situation based purely on historic info and experience following our recruiting process. We are currently sitting on 8 committed per 247 sports. 7th in the belt and well pass 100th place nationally.

Well what are some of your rationales?

[zephyr]

Bumping this thread.

I have no idea what's up with our recruiting this year in football, but we are seriously lagging behind. I didn't pony-up the$$ to make the recruitment dinner a few weeks ago, but something is up. I have several rationales to possibly explain the situation based purely on historic info and experience following our recruiting process. We are currently sitting on 8 committed per 247 sports. 7th in the belt and well pass 100th place nationally.

Don't know if I'd say we are behind when the summer and fall are when you will see the bulk of your commitments start coming in anyway. The issue has been our world is upside down right now and there is not much that is normal in regards to sports and recruiting.

[SlickRick]

ok, guess app state has their world right side up with 20+ commits.

[CajunEXPRESS]

ok, guess app state has their world right side up with 20+ commits.

But nobody is App State. Billy working to change our perception. Guess I’m not going to panic in this crazy time. Plenty of time to get pizzed in the future.

[zephyr]

ok, guess app state has their world right side up with 20+ commits.

Maybe we are being selective as to who we take or maybe we have sights set on some bigger names that are uncommitted. I don't know. What I do know is that we finished tops in the belt last year. I won't start worrying a ton until later in the fall as we get closer to early signing period. What are some of your rationales then?

[Bankruptcyman]

I do know that Coach Napier knows what he wants and is a very selective shopper. He will not take someone just to fill out a roster spot. He is very particular about his evaluation of players and, of course, he has not been able to evaluation prospects this year as he would like. I think he would rather keep scholarships for walk-ons than fill out a signing class with recruits he unsure about. I personally think there will be numerous under-evaluated prospects that will fall to schools like us this year and Coach Napier wants to have scholarships available.

[SlickRick]

I do know that Coach Napier knows what he wants and is a very selective shopper. He will not take someone just to fill out a roster spot. He is very particular about his evaluation of players and, of course, he has not been able to evaluation prospects this year as he would like. I think he would rather keep scholarships for walk-ons than fill out a signing class with recruits he unsure about. I personally think there will be numerous under-evaluated prospects that will fall to schools like us this year and Coach Napier wants to have scholarships available.

R...agree with your assessment and is one of the rationales I figured was possibly happening. The other is they may be waiting on some higher rated guys to fall to them, which will move those commitments nearer to signing dates. And, another could be the fact that, schools that don't have a season this fall, will in fact have a huge first time freshman class that will result in many looking for a school to play ball sooner.