The only thing I can think of is that they are afraid he'll accept the offer?How is it that we put out about 7 million offers a year and yet we don't offer really talented kids just over the state line?
The only thing I can think of is that they are afraid he'll accept the offer?How is it that we put out about 7 million offers a year and yet we don't offer really talented kids just over the state line?
I meant fair is subjective, but I was dealing with the rare all day hangover when I posted that.
Nobody is trying to take all credit away from the staff. In the end we are on the same team. The reason I made the original comment is because I don’t like it when we chalk a recruiting commit up to “our staffs skills” when he clearly always wanted to come here. If the latter was true and our staff were clear cut amazing recruiters, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.It's dismissed as not a big recruiting win because "he was always coming here". That's the standard mantra to use when people don't want to give any credit to the staff, the same as people saying "we don't want people who don't want to be here" by the other side.
Nobody is trying to take all credit away from the staff. In the end we are on the same team. The reason I made the original comment is because I don’t like it when we chalk a recruiting commit up to “our staffs skills” when he clearly always wanted to come here. If the latter was true and our staff were clear cut amazing recruiters, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
It's dismissed as not a big recruiting win because "he was always coming here". That's the standard mantra to use when people don't want to give any credit to the staff, the same as people saying "we don't want people who don't want to be here" by the other side.
Top 20 classes threes years in a row...all with losing seasons. That tells us something. Carry on.Nobody is trying to take all credit away from the staff. In the end we are on the same team. The reason I made the original comment is because I don’t like it when we chalk a recruiting commit up to “our staffs skills” when he clearly always wanted to come here. If the latter was true and our staff were clear cut amazing recruiters, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
If our current staff isnt clear cut amazing recruiters, I ask, compared to whom?Nobody is trying to take all credit away from the staff. In the end we are on the same team. The reason I made the original comment is because I don’t like it when we chalk a recruiting commit up to “our staffs skills” when he clearly always wanted to come here. If the latter was true and our staff were clear cut amazing recruiters, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Props to you and a really catchy comeback. Would have been even better if it was true. This is going nowhere, you can have the final response."Nobody is trying to take all credit away from the staff"
Then proceeds to take all credit away from the staff.
You can't make this stuff up.
Yep, remember Tim Ridder going to Notre Dame when we were winning big.Not necessarily
Some kids want to spread there wings and experience other things
Which is okay because we benefited from that getting #1 commits from MN, KS and Iowa over the past three years
The Omaha kids have more options. Guys like Haarberg, Carnie, and Gifford are choosing us over Iowa, Boston College, and Oregon State. Even go look at the 2019 class where our staff did a great job keeping guys, the out of Omaha guys were Snodgrass, Nelson, and Piper. The best offer was Iowa for those guys. Deshawn Woods has LSU and Florida offers, Jackson has Notre Dame and A&M offers, Helms has an Oklahoma offer, Riley got offered from Penn State. Since the 2011 class, there's only been 2 in-state recruits outside of Omaha that had bigger offers than Iowa, and that's Bryson Williams and Jared Bubak. That's pretty staggering to only have two in a decade. That's one of the big issues IMO.thank you both for your responses. This is meant to be a prespring thread to give someone something to talk about.
@ShortSideOption I hear what you are saying. However why is it so prominent in Omaha but top Lincoln, Kearney and other out state kids still seem ready to go to the home school. Omaha just seems to be the outlier in state.