Stallion Question concerning TCU

[SoCal_Pony]

Stallion, can you tell us how TCU’s recruiting has gone to date compared to prior years?

Realize it’s still early, but do you feel their move to Mountain West has been a positive or negative on recruiting?

[Charleston Pony]

this site show 2 commitments. perhaps one of the recruiting gurus can tell us about these guys.

http://interact.ocsn.com/recruiting/sea ... &dbyear=04

should note that Houston has a bunch of early commitments. What about their list? Has last year's success revived that program?

[HFvictory]

At UH, Briles has a lot of connections within the HS coaching ranks and it was expected that he would recruit well. How successfull he will be is yet to be seen, but UH has always seemed to recruit well. Briles inherited a talented team which seemed to under achieve. Don't know if his recruits are any better than what UH has had in the past, but he sure is getting kids to commit early.

TCU coaches encourage a lot of the early commits not to announce. They are not the big name recruits that get hounded by coaches, recruiting services and newspapers so there is usually less pressure to make the announcement.

[abezontar]

probably a stupid question, but why would you not want kids to announce? Isn't the convential wisdom that the more kids you get to commit early on, the more likely that large group of commitments will encourage others to come, simply because so many others want to be there too?

[Charleston Pony]

not to mention the fact that a lot of coaches will back off a guy once they hear from him that he's committed somewhere. Won't keep them from calling to be sure a guy really is committed, but I don't see any advantage in trying to keep it quiet.

[Hoop Fan]

There is a line of thinking that once a kid announces, the other coaches not only dont give up, they go after the guy with more pressure tactics and negatives about the school he committed to. As for committments breeding committments, thats true, but some coaches probably feel they can communicate the specific commitments they have directly to the recruits they want to impress. They dont need the recruiting services to do that.

[HFvictory]

Exactly...coaches don't back off. The recruits know what is going on and many discuss their commitments with fellow recruits even if not announced. Early announcements seem to only get fans excited and have little effect on the final class.

[SWC2010]

I would say Chris Hall is a perfect example of "Recruiters Gone Wild" after he committed to us. everybody else turned up the heat....

[HFvictory]

Hated to see that happen. One thing about announcing early is that the recruiters know exactly who the competition is and they can focus on areas that their program may excel over the recruits choice...BCS vs. non-BCS, Big XII vs. WAC or C-USA, attendance, etc., etc.

Every program has an advantage over another program and there is no reason to let the recruiters know exactly who they are going up against. There are several recruits who have stated on Rivals interviews that they are keeping their favorite a secret (some have TCU listed as a possibility).

[Roach]

Why tcu would be anyone's favorite is beyond me. To each his own, I guess.

[HFvictory]

Why tcu would be anyone's favorite is beyond me. To each his own, I guess.

Why don't you win a game first, talk trash later....

I am not a huge SMU fan but enjoy football. I would love it if both SMU and TCU went 11-2 or better every year and had a great battle on the field. SMU plays TCU tough, especially last year, but don't expect to run with them this year....

TCU players had 21 major surgeries last year and still finished in the top 25 after losing their #1 RB and #1 QB as well as many of there DBs. They are healthy so far this year.

Just trying to answer some questions here without talking anybody down, but I could just as soon not....

[SWC2010]

Why tcu would be anyone's favorite is beyond me. To each his own, I guess.

Why don't you win a game first, talk trash later....

I am not a huge SMU fan but enjoy football. I would love it if both SMU and TCU went 11-2 or better every year and had a great battle on the field. SMU plays TCU tough, especially last year, but don't expect to run with them this year....

TCU players had 21 major surgeries last year and still finished in the top 25 after losing their #1 RB and #1 QB as well as many of there DBs. They are healthy so far this year.

Just trying to answer some questions here without talking anybody down, but I could just as soon not....

Let me get this straight "HF"...

TCU 10-0, gives up 40 points & loses C-USA to So Miss on Nat'l TV;

then, TCU sweats out a 20-13 victory against a freshman laden SMU team;

In their final game, TCU loses it's own home bowl game to Boise St...

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[HFvictory]

Let me get this straight "HF"...

TCU 10-0, gives up 40 points & loses C-USA to So Miss on Nat'l TV;

then, TCU sweats out a 20-13 victory against a freshman laden SMU team;

In their final game, TCU loses it's own home bowl game to Boise St...

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmm, why don't you review your past season......

[EP Pony Fan]

Far be it from me to defend TCU (as an SMU alum, I can't do that in good conscience!), but let's be fair - losing to Boise State is not a disgrace - the Broncos are a damn good team.

[Mike Damone]

Ripping on TCU's two loss season. Pathetic. In your post you include three phrases I'd give anything to see at SMU: "10-0", "national television", and "bowl game."

Regardless, anyone else find it funny that the only person not to post on this thread is the one in the subject.