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Football Recruiting Activity

Postby PonyTime » Fri May 30, 2014 11:08 am

Is it just me - or is the activity level increased fairly significantly on the Football recruiting front?

Increases in HS visits. I don't recall this many offers out this early in the past. Not sure if the quality is stronger or not.

Perhaps there was something in that contract extension that addressed recruiting efforts. Something appears to have lit a fire under the staff. Perhaps they took a look at what happened in BBall.

Correct me if I'm wrong about this.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby sbsmith » Fri May 30, 2014 11:31 am

Meh, it's still nowhere near the activity level of legit football programs.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby Stallion » Fri May 30, 2014 11:38 am

Yes should pay dividends in 2017-2018-long after June Jones has been run out of town
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby malonish » Fri May 30, 2014 12:18 pm

It seems like more than normal. I wonder why this didn't happen in the past.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby PonySnob » Fri May 30, 2014 12:23 pm

malonish wrote:It seems like more than normal. I wonder why this didn't happen in the past.


Coach trying to act like he's worth his salary..........
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby gostangs » Fri May 30, 2014 1:04 pm

bingo.

It is simple People are motivated by greed or fear. This would be fear.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby BIGHORSE » Fri May 30, 2014 6:20 pm

PonySnob wrote:
malonish wrote:It seems like more than normal. I wonder why this didn't happen in the past.


Coach trying to act like he's worth his salary..........



If he was trying to act like he is worth his salary he should have been

doing it all these years, too little too late.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby blackoutpony » Sat May 31, 2014 11:19 am

It's still mostly a farce. Kids still getting offered through the coach and have never actually spoken to an SMU coach.

Yeah, it's a little bit better effort wise, but still a joke for the most part.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby B1GPonyFan » Sat May 31, 2014 11:25 am

It is not uncommon for kids to receive offers from schools (not just SMU) before ever speaking with a coach. Let's keep it real here.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby Grant Carter » Sat May 31, 2014 11:44 am

B1GPonyFan wrote:It is not uncommon for kids to receive offers from schools (not just SMU) before ever speaking with a coach. Let's keep it real here.

If other schools do it it is strategy. When SMU does it is is a combination of laziness and ineptitude apparently.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby Stallion » Sat May 31, 2014 12:09 pm

Not uncommon? What does that mean? I'd bet its not uncommon for those schools to have plenty of "free time" after Thanksgiving as well. Its definitely not a winning strategy with a top prospect
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby B1GPonyFan » Sat May 31, 2014 12:19 pm

Stallion wrote:Not uncommon? What does that mean? I'd bet its not uncommon for those schools to have plenty of "free time" after Thanksgiving as well. Its definitely not a winning strategy with a top prospect


No question but you know it happens so don't pretend it doesn't. If you want to talk strategy, that's a different discussion and not what I was pointing out.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby East Coast Mustang » Sat May 31, 2014 3:49 pm

Thought I read on one of the sites that Emmanuel Sanders told one of the guys he had an SMU offer...I actually thought that was actually pretty cool. Not sure how accurate that is, or if it's an NCAA violation of not
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby mrydel » Sat May 31, 2014 4:02 pm

Sanders is not eligible anymore.
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Re: Football Recruiting Activity

Postby redpony » Sat May 31, 2014 4:04 pm

I'm glad to see the increased activity. My concern is that tiki may just be going by and saying ' hi, I'm jj' and then hoping the h.s. coaches will recruit for him. Or perhaps even worse- just throwing out a bunch of offers and then when the recruits don't sign he can say that he tried but his old method worked better. Guess signing day will be the proof of the pudding.
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