re: Football Recruiting Thread: ESD Edition

I think its a waste of money to recruit another highly ranked 5 star this cycle.

Someone will leave, someone you have paid a fortune to sit on the bench.

Id like to see someone like this Burgess kid.

Now someone on here will say, nonsense go for broke! And that same person will be eerily quiet when all of our 5 star QBs are getting crushed because we could not afford some offensive tackles.

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I think its a waste of money to recruit another highly ranked 5 star this cycle

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We are going to have sign the most highly recruited and talented players at each position we can. NIL makes that weird at QB, but that's the world we live in.

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I do not believe this to be true at QB. Look at Lanning's HS QB recruiting since he took the Oregon job. He has all the NIL money in the world to do whatever he wants, and yet his HS QB recruiting has been "mid" in the 3 full recruiting classes that he has had there. He is signing "4-stars", but they are in the National 100+ overall range. This is by choice. His highest rated "young QB signee" has been Dante Moore, who was poached from the Portal and didn't come from HS.

The old recruiting models need to be altered with NIL and the Portal. You get literally nothing out of spending millions to stack 3+ "elite QB's" onto your roster. Those players will leave immediately, just like Walker White did, or just like Air Noland did at OSU.

You aren't going to safe-guard for the possibility of Deuce Knight failing by leveraging a player who is even younger than he is. If Deuce Knight ends up sucking, the solution is to go to the Portal. The Portal isn't just for immediate starters; you are seeing that your elite HS QB's who were signed just a year ago are already on the market again a year later. Like Dante Moore.

I do love the discussion, now we are debating how many 5 star QBs to have on the team, I like it, I like it a lot.

It would be irresponsible to not recruit the best player you can at QB every year. Iron sharpens iron, you'll lose a few players to the portal either way.

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Thanks SwaAU, I think you and meta explained better than I.

The point is, we would all love to have a bushel of 5 star QBs, but reality says we certainly cant afford that AND a competitive roster as well. And even if we had them they would not stay.

Go for broke every other year and in the alternate years pick up a "second tier" kid with potential. Why I mentioned this Burgess kid, Alan Head spoke about his improvement over the past year in their podcast. Kid has the arm, makes all the throws, and has some wheels. Threw 60% as a junior for Grayson who plays some of the best teams in the south (now look at Walker Whites completion as a junior in lower division in Arkansas).

Space out the "5 stars" every other year, they get the practice reps, some game experience and are ready to go when its their turn.

Now save that money and spend it on some OL

You are making a strawman argument. Nobody is talking about "taking a year off" or not continuing to sign QB's. We are specifically talking about spending the time and money to sign a "5-star" QB every single year, which is going to prove to be the college football equivalent of throwing money into a dumpster and lighting it on fire. I can't think of a worse way to attribute NIL funds, which in case everyone forgot, are not unlimited.

There is zero upside to committing millions of dollars to players who are never going to even step onto the football field for you. Proper roster building and NIL management moving forward will also have to include the TIMING of acquisitions.

The team is not going to fold if you follow Deuce Knight with a Top 250 QB from HS instead of another 5-star. The money that you save in doing so can be spent to protect and increase the probability that the two 7-figure QB's that we just brought in at the same time (Arnold & Deuce) actually succeed.