Babushka's Recruiting Philosophy
Under Smith, Oregon State isn’t nearly as prominent on Twitter. He hasn’t posted anything to his personal Twitter account since last October. Oregon State football has an active Twitter account, but it mostly spreads news about the current team and former players. OSU assistant coaches have personal Twitter accounts, and some use it to retweet posts from recruits.
Smith acknowledges there is value to using social media as a recruiting tool. It’s just not his style.
“Maybe I’m old school, but I’m just not on it that much,” Smith said. “I’m way more into phone calls that I can have with recruits rather than retweeting their picture. That doesn’t say I’m right for doing it and they’re wrong. It’s just a different way of doing it.
Smith pauses, and turning to Oregon, says “I’m not saying their stuff isn’t authentic. I’m really not. Sounds like (Cristobal) is all over Twitter. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it. I’m sure there are some benefits to it.”
To be fair, Alabama’s Nick Saban doesn’t have a Twitter account, and the Crimson Tide seem to do quite well in recruiting. Washington coach Chris Petersen uses Twitter, but outside of an occasional “WOOF!!” tweet, it’s rarely about recruiting.
It seems to be paying off, as last year's horrid recruiting class is going to look like Clemson's current class in comparison.
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I do like how he's trying to say that he thinks Cristobalz is fake while being too much of a pussy to actually say it.
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Smith can coach. I think he did a pretty good job offensively considering the crap he had on his roster. However, it doesn't look like he's improving the talent very much. The defense might be even worse this year.
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That is sad as fuck. I mean fuck them all, but this is sad.GrundleStiltzkin said: -
To be fair, it must suck to recruit to OSU. Your best pitch is "Technically we are a Pac-12 school"
I don't know if he'd do that much better if he really tried. -
Dennis Erickson seemed to do okay, so it's not impossible with the right guyNeighbor2972 said:To be fair, it must suck to recruit to OSU. Your best pitch is "Technically we are a Pac-12 school"
I don't know if he'd do that much better if he really tried. -
Another Stephen Jackson isn't walking through that door.DerekJohnson said:
Dennis Erickson seemed to do okay, so it's not impossible with the right guyNeighbor2972 said:To be fair, it must suck to recruit to OSU. Your best pitch is "Technically we are a Pac-12 school"
I don't know if he'd do that much better if he really tried. -
Vat you fail to understand is thees, once telephone come to my veellage last year we discover all the teenagers love it veddy much. Is going to be secret veapon in recruiting vars. Babuschka veddy dialed in weeth Gen Z.RatherBeBrewing said:Is to not recruit any good football players while pretending this is 1997: https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2019/05/oregon-state-football-coach-jonathan-smiths-approach-involves-the-phone-call-and-not-too-much-social-media.html
Under Smith, Oregon State isn’t nearly as prominent on Twitter. He hasn’t posted anything to his personal Twitter account since last October. Oregon State football has an active Twitter account, but it mostly spreads news about the current team and former players. OSU assistant coaches have personal Twitter accounts, and some use it to retweet posts from recruits.
Smith acknowledges there is value to using social media as a recruiting tool. It’s just not his style.
“Maybe I’m old school, but I’m just not on it that much,” Smith said. “I’m way more into phone calls that I can have with recruits rather than retweeting their picture. That doesn’t say I’m right for doing it and they’re wrong. It’s just a different way of doing it.
Smith pauses, and turning to Oregon, says “I’m not saying their stuff isn’t authentic. I’m really not. Sounds like (Cristobal) is all over Twitter. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it. I’m sure there are some benefits to it.”
To be fair, Alabama’s Nick Saban doesn’t have a Twitter account, and the Crimson Tide seem to do quite well in recruiting. Washington coach Chris Petersen uses Twitter, but outside of an occasional “WOOF!!” tweet, it’s rarely about recruiting.
It seems to be paying off, as last year's horrid recruiting class is going to look like Clemson's current class in comparison.
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That's true but once he leaves schools tend to fumigate the programDerekJohnson said:
Dennis Erickson seemed to do okay, so it's not impossible with the right guyNeighbor2972 said:To be fair, it must suck to recruit to OSU. Your best pitch is "Technically we are a Pac-12 school"
I don't know if he'd do that much better if he really tried. -
