Recruiting Needs To Start Early!!!!

CharlesMincy

d2d said:

I'm all for branding children at an early age. It doesn't hurt a bit.

Well Oregon will Tattoo Nike symbols on them if we don't so lets have at it.

CharlesMincy

In the recruiting game 2015 kids are "Old News". 2015 kids that are good and not on the radar at this point are looked upon like 5th year senior basketball players in the NCAA. They figure if there was no interest in them before, they must not be that good. That is NOT accurate, but that is the sentiment. And it is also a SELF-PRESERVING stance that the coaches are taking. Position coaches are NOT hired to "Coach" football. They are hired to RECRUIT. And the more "Big Name" players they get, the better. They are trying to land NAMES to bolster their portfolios. So finding the diamond in the rough is a MAJOR risk for them...
...And so goes the PROBLEM with recruiting.

CharlesMincy

Schools have offered 8th grade kids. It makes a big splash and they have found that the "prodigy" kids are not impossible to identify at that age. So why not take a chance? It's not written in stone. It's good publicity. And you may get lucky and make the best player of the future feel obliged to attend your school.

DonaldJones

Guess whose son may be the best 8th grade football in the nation. Check out his highlight video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7TGSOPb244

PurpleBaze

A chip off the old block...

RaceBannon

DonaldJones said:

Guess whose son may be the best 8th grade football in the nation. Check out his highlight video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7TGSOPb244

Oregon lean?

FremontTroll

CharlesMincy said:

In the recruiting game 2015 kids are "Old News". 2015 kids that are good and not on the radar at this point are looked upon like 5th year senior basketball players in the NCAA. They figure if there was no interest in them before, they must not be that good. That is NOT accurate, but that is the sentiment. And it is also a SELF-PRESERVING stance that the coaches are taking. Position coaches are NOT hired to "Coach" football. They are hired to RECRUIT. And the more "Big Name" players they get, the better. They are trying to land NAMES to bolster their portfolios. So finding the diamond in the rough is a MAJOR risk for them...
...And so goes the PROBLEM with recruiting.

So are you saying there is a market inefficiency created by this type of resume building competition? An ineffeciency that could be exploited by coaches that don't care about ratings and hype?

CharlesMincy

Yes, coaches that know how to find kids or are working hard enough to find the GEMS can really take advantage of the laziness of the other schools. But they will have to do some real "Digging".

HuskyJW

This whole thread doesn't reek of nepotism at all

whatshouldicareabout

CharlesMincy said:

Yes, coaches that know how to find kids or are working hard enough to find the GEMS can really take advantage of the laziness of the other schools. But they will have to do some real "Digging".

Do you see any recruits like this from Petersen's two classes?

For example, Pettis and Dissly had 0 BCS offers when they signed with UW, but both have exceeded expectations this year and look to have bright futures with the program.