East Coast Mustang wrote:FTHP fails at reading comprehension for the 1,432nd time
Fatterson would never take a job at SMU if fired from TCU
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THERE YOU GO! And yes, I, gulp, actually agree with you
Yeah, right. We're putting the cart before the horse here but if he gets canned at TCU and we had a vacancy he would absolutely consider it. It's another paycheck and he has a lot of familiarity with this area for recruiting purposes.
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I hate it when someone that doesn't know jack about recruiting tries to [deleted]. TCU has beat us in recruiting like a drum just about every single year for 24 years. TCU historically has taken small classes-those numbers are skewed. Take those same numbers and look at Average Per Recruit which really is more important. The schools taking 32 recruits are doing it because they have attrition, non-qualifiers, washouts. The fact is that TCU for a decade had one of the Top 1-2 non-BCS recruiting programs. The strength of the TCU program until 2012 was that they recruited well, kept players in school and developed their recruits. In both in 2012 and 2013 they lost 7-8 starters from OFF field issues in EACH year. That's been their downfall not recruiting.
"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris
When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.
Stallion wrote:I hate it when someone that doesn't know jack about recruiting tries to [deleted]. TCU has beat us in recruiting like a drum just about every single year for 24 years. TCU historically has taken small classes-those numbers are skewed. Take those same numbers and look at Average Per Recruit which really is more important. The schools taking 32 recruits are doing it because they have attrition, non-qualifiers, washouts. The fact is that TCU for a decade had one of the Top 1-2 non-BCS recruiting programs. The strength of the TCU program until 2012 was that they recruited well, kept players in school and developed their recruits. In both in 2012 and 2013 they lost 7-8 starters from OFF field issues in EACH year. That's been their downfall not recruiting.
Not sure if you're talking to me, but do you honestly think Patterson can scout talent and coach well enough to sign a middle-of-the-road recruiting class in the Big 12 and still compete for the Big 12 title? Yeah, Briles did it, but I'd contend Briles is a lot better coach than Patterson- as evidenced by that Big 12 title he won this year. Also- you say that Rivals skews rankings because TCU has a small class- their avg. star ranking on Rivals is 2.56- just barely above Iowa State and Kansas, good for 8th out of 10 in the Big 12. And I wasn't comparing TCU's recruiting to SMU's and I don't know why any SMU fan would want to at this point. My point is, I know they were one of the top non-BCS teams in recruiting prior to joining the Big 12, but it's a lot easier to recruit well and beat up on Wyoming, Colorado State, and New Mexico and have your super bowl be one or two games vs BCS teams per year- it's another thing to have to play Texas, OU, Baylor, and OSU week in and week out in the Big 12.
2005 PonyFans.com Rookie of the Year Award Recipient
Basic Assumption-Class Rated Top 50 is Superlative for non BCS School; Top 60 is Outstanding, Top 70 is Great and Top 80 Good, 80 and above Average to Bad:
TCU(Average Per Recruit)( Number of Recruits) 2002 63(17) 2005 63(21) 2004 45(21) 2005 58(21) 2006 45(18) 2007 54(24) 2008 72(16) 2009, 2010, 2011 not going to waste my time because even under Total Points their class was Superlative
Note the small TCU Classes in parenthesis By my count TCU had 5 Superlative Classes, 2 Outstanding Classes , 2 Classes at 63 which were close to outstanding but Great nontheless, and 1 in good category. We go over this every year-TCU drums us every year in recruiting
I'm not going go thru SMU's average per recruit because we generally sign large class but I see 0 Superlative Class, 1 Outstanding Class, 2 Great Classes, 2 Good Classes and 8 Classes from Average to Bad
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"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris
When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.
Stallion wrote:I hate it when someone that doesn't know jack about recruiting tries to [deleted]. TCU has beat us in recruiting like a drum just about every single year for 24 years. TCU historically has taken small classes-those numbers are skewed. Take those same numbers and look at Average Per Recruit which really is more important. The schools taking 32 recruits are doing it because they have attrition, non-qualifiers, washouts. The fact is that TCU for a decade had one of the Top 1-2 non-BCS recruiting programs. The strength of the TCU program until 2012 was that they recruited well, kept players in school and developed their recruits. In both in 2012 and 2013 they lost 7-8 starters from OFF field issues in EACH year. That's been their downfall not recruiting.
Not sure if you're talking to me, but do you honestly think Patterson can scout talent and coach well enough to sign a middle-of-the-road recruiting class in the Big 12 and still compete for the Big 12 title? Yeah, Briles did it, but I'd contend Briles is a lot better coach than Patterson- as evidenced by that Big 12 title he won this year. Also- you say that Rivals skews rankings because TCU has a small class- their avg. star ranking on Rivals is 2.56- just barely above Iowa State and Kansas, good for 8th out of 10 in the Big 12. And I wasn't comparing TCU's recruiting to SMU's and I don't know why any SMU fan would want to at this point. My point is, I know they were one of the top non-BCS teams in recruiting prior to joining the Big 12, but it's a lot easier to recruit well and beat up on Wyoming, Colorado State, and New Mexico and have your super bowl be one or two games vs BCS teams per year- it's another thing to have to play Texas, OU, Baylor, and OSU week in and week out in the Big 12.
I wasn't talking to you-but whoever said that I thought that TCU woiuld be contending for Big 12 titles. I think they can be competitive.
"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris
When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.