Bruce Wayne lives
Tuli and Irvin and missed on Barber Shop
This year UW took 3 of our 4 late targets:
Heimuli, Turner, Nacua and missed on TootToot
This year's isn't as impressive because we went into the late period a massive favorite for Heimuli and having had a commit from Turner, but honestly we were only considered the favorite for Heimuli out of the 4 and not super involved on Nacua or Toots. Also you could add Ford to the misses I suppose which makes it 3 out 5.
If you add late commits in the early period you can add Taimani and Gordon to last year's tally as well as Kaho (lol). This year we reeled in McDuffie and Latu late in the early period.
Bottom line is this staff is far above average at locking up solid classes early and has come a long way in their ability to close key targets in December and beyond.
This is all assuming Nacua signs of course.
PTSD doesn't go away in two classes.
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WE FUCKING CLOSED.
Bruce Wayne lives in Malloe's pants, man. He's like the reasonable guy that stops fights in bars, then takes the bitch home because they feel safe. -
He should be paid more than KBDennis_DeYoung said:WE FUCKING CLOSED.
Bruce Wayne lives in Malloe's pants, man. He's like the reasonable guy that stops fights in bars, then takes the bitch home because they feel safe. -
Does Kaho count as a close last class or a miss?
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I count Kaho as a big time close.
I evaluate guys at every step of the process... do we evaluate well? Do we recruit well? Do we develop well? Do we coach well? All of it matters.
We closed Kaho. That was a very odd circumstance and clearly it doesn't happen often.
In terms of the close - yeah - we got him.
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Pumpy double poast... if anyone stayed up last night (or this morning in Europe) they saw a super pissed off mom reluctant to be on TV saying it was very stressful and she’s just happy it’s over. In real-time it felt awkward that Puka pulled her on TV, but in hindsight it may have been a very public move to show everyone watching that they both made the decision and that it’s over. I’d like to see the signed LOI (maybe it’s already in) and him in LEAP before it seems totally over.LoneStarDawg said:Does Kaho count as a close last class or a miss?
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Not what I'm hearing..
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I think more needs to be said about USC's recent neutering in the recruiting game. Yes, their on-field product sucked this year, which absolutely contributed to their struggles. But it sure looks like this newer generation of LA kids are a lot more willing to leave the SoCal bubble than they have been in year's past. USC use to have about as much trouble as Texas did in just sleepwalking their way into landing local blue chip after blue chip. You always knew, regardless of who was doing the recruiting, that there was a large contingent of very talent recruits that just had no interest in leaving the greater LA area. That trend seems to be, or has already faded. USC may be losing their biggest inherent advantage that they've had for decades, and that opportunity can't be overlooked.
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Until someone like Urbs takes over. Then the conference will be pillaged by the Trojan hordes with only the purple kingdom to the north to stand in their way.GreenRiverGatorz said:I think more needs to be said about USC's recent neutering in the recruiting game. Yes, their on-field product sucked this year, which absolutely contributed to their struggles. But it sure looks like this newer generation of LA kids are a lot more willing to leave the SoCal bubble than they have been in year's past. USC use to have about as much trouble as Texas did in just sleepwalking their way into landing local blue chip after blue chip. You always knew, regardless of who was doing the recruiting, that there was a large contingent of very talent recruits that just had no interest in leaving the greater LA area. That trend seems to be, or has already faded. USC may be losing their biggest inherent advantage that they've had for decades, and that opportunity can't be overlooked.
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SC will eventually make a great hire and be BACK. Their upside is the same it has always been.GreenRiverGatorz said:I think more needs to be said about USC's recent neutering in the recruiting game. Yes, their on-field product sucked this year, which absolutely contributed to their struggles. But it sure looks like this newer generation of LA kids are a lot more willing to leave the SoCal bubble than they have been in year's past. USC use to have about as much trouble as Texas did in just sleepwalking their way into landing local blue chip after blue chip. You always knew, regardless of who was doing the recruiting, that there was a large contingent of very talent recruits that just had no interest in leaving the greater LA area. That trend seems to be, or has already faded. USC may be losing their biggest inherent advantage that they've had for decades, and that opportunity can't be overlooked.
The big difference is they aren’t guaranteed to have top ten classes in the meantime like they always have been. The floor has dropped considerably.
