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re: BCS Bowlers are not recruiting champions
Posted on 12/19/10 at 3:28 pm to TheFinalWord
Posted on 12/19/10 at 3:28 pm to TheFinalWord
Since 2002 (When Rivals started ranking teams based on recruiting hauls), the only team to not make it to the National Championship game within 4 years of signing a #1 class was USC's 2006 signing class.
That speaks volumes about a couple of things. #1 - Surprisingly accurate recruiting rankings and #2 - The importance of signing top recruits.
That speaks volumes about a couple of things. #1 - Surprisingly accurate recruiting rankings and #2 - The importance of signing top recruits.
This post was edited on 12/19/10 at 3:29 pm
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Posted on 12/19/10 at 4:27 pm to superman
Multiple highly rated recruiting classes in back-to-back years is not only a double edged sword but it cuts a couple of more ways as well.
Top recruits combined with good coaching, a favorable schedule and injury luck leeds to championships. But all of the successes lead to a group of negatives for the couple of years that follow which would help explain why it is so difficult to stay on top.
Recruits see a deep depth chart and want early playing time - they go somewhere else. Those with the highest competative mindset take the depth chart as a challenge and jump in. The ones with that kind of drive often head to the NFL a year early when the recruits that went elsewhere would be most needed.
Winning puts your good coaching on the map and causes shuffling in the staff. A shuffled staff has about 60 days to get on the same page before the kids still there are looking to them for ansers in the spring. A shuffled staff takes recruiting relationships and spreads them to other places making the effort to stay on top that much more difficult.
The key to watch is which programs can recover from the spinning wheel and climb quickly back to the top to start it all over again. Those are the teams that are near the top of the pile at both the beginning and end of each season most every year. It is not a very large club.
Top recruits combined with good coaching, a favorable schedule and injury luck leeds to championships. But all of the successes lead to a group of negatives for the couple of years that follow which would help explain why it is so difficult to stay on top.
Recruits see a deep depth chart and want early playing time - they go somewhere else. Those with the highest competative mindset take the depth chart as a challenge and jump in. The ones with that kind of drive often head to the NFL a year early when the recruits that went elsewhere would be most needed.
Winning puts your good coaching on the map and causes shuffling in the staff. A shuffled staff has about 60 days to get on the same page before the kids still there are looking to them for ansers in the spring. A shuffled staff takes recruiting relationships and spreads them to other places making the effort to stay on top that much more difficult.
The key to watch is which programs can recover from the spinning wheel and climb quickly back to the top to start it all over again. Those are the teams that are near the top of the pile at both the beginning and end of each season most every year. It is not a very large club.
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