The unspoken being spoken
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:32 pmOk, so we saw the tweet from the former Coppell coach about the game Sunday and there was the story where the coaches in South Dallas County were talking about the lack of SMU's consistent presence in their schools.
You don't ever see this publicly. But why are we? Well, you can look it from the perspective that these coaches don't have any kind of relationship with the coaching staff so they have nothing to lose "calling them out". What is SMU going to do? Threaten them by not recruiting their players? No because SMU isn't doing that anyway.
A lot of the relationships built between college and high school staffs rarely if ever come to the surface. There's no reason for that to surface. And even if a player from the HS had a bad recruiting experience with a school (it's an isolated incident) then it's probably not going to get out in media circles anyway because of the history.
But in SMU's case, the credibility of your program is destroyed when articles/tweets like this occur. It's such bad PR, you can't overcome it and pretty much have to replace the current coaching staff and start over with a new one for the HS coaches to give you a chance. The fact that this staff has had seven years to do something so basic and yet been unwilling (whatever you want to call it) to do it tells you why 45-0 shows up.
I can also tell you that when several Division I kids were transferring (Keller Fossil Ridge DT Aaron Curry from Nebraska to TCU) were transferring from their schools back to DFW, SMU never reached out to those players or SMU wasn't contacted. Why? SMU no established relationships with coaches as a whole.
We all understand this.
IMO SMU's ability to recruit in Texas with this coaching staff is toast. This group will never make any headway because it reaped what it sowed.
You don't ever see this publicly. But why are we? Well, you can look it from the perspective that these coaches don't have any kind of relationship with the coaching staff so they have nothing to lose "calling them out". What is SMU going to do? Threaten them by not recruiting their players? No because SMU isn't doing that anyway.
A lot of the relationships built between college and high school staffs rarely if ever come to the surface. There's no reason for that to surface. And even if a player from the HS had a bad recruiting experience with a school (it's an isolated incident) then it's probably not going to get out in media circles anyway because of the history.
But in SMU's case, the credibility of your program is destroyed when articles/tweets like this occur. It's such bad PR, you can't overcome it and pretty much have to replace the current coaching staff and start over with a new one for the HS coaches to give you a chance. The fact that this staff has had seven years to do something so basic and yet been unwilling (whatever you want to call it) to do it tells you why 45-0 shows up.
I can also tell you that when several Division I kids were transferring (Keller Fossil Ridge DT Aaron Curry from Nebraska to TCU) were transferring from their schools back to DFW, SMU never reached out to those players or SMU wasn't contacted. Why? SMU no established relationships with coaches as a whole.
We all understand this.
IMO SMU's ability to recruit in Texas with this coaching staff is toast. This group will never make any headway because it reaped what it sowed.