Stallion wrote:BenW wrote:Hudspeth loads up with Miss JCs and players who aren't qualified on signing date. He's taking advantage of the SEC rule about no-oversigning. Last year he got burned some, as probably 2/3 of the top of his class didn't qualify; but the prior year it worked (and it still worked some last year).
something to think about and probably very true. SMU can get just about every full qualifier in-heck we've gotten about 3 non-qualifiers in the last 2 years in Basketball, but there is an advantage that state schools have that SMU can't do-NOT because Turner hates athletics-but because of NCAA rules. A non-qualifier that is admitted to a state school can walk on by paying in-state tuition and if he performs satisfactorily in first year can join the team after sitting out first year. This is a big advantage for state schools in Louisiana, Mississippi with high concentration of poor academically performing students. Not Turners fault because tuition is $57,000
What he's really trying to do is sign them in February and hope they qualify by August. He's losing a good number of those who don't qualify by August to JCs, where he'll never hear from them again. Now some do stick with ULL and pay their way, but not that many (after all, they could do the same for, say, FSU, although the tuition is really cheap in Louisiana).
TCU and Patterson did this a bit, especially in his last few years in C-USA and early in the MWC; he'd sign players OSU were all over, but who weren't qualified, and hope they qualified by August. Hudspeth also has a ton of Miss ties, and he's taking advantage of a beleaguered USM, whose recruiting hit a big downturn before Fedora left.
But if you look at traditional high school recruiting in Louisiana - signing players who have qualified on that first Tuesday of February - Hudspeth's recruiting isn't anything special. But his finding niches and recruiting them is special.
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:33 pm