OL and WR recruiting eval

[skurtn]

There's clearly a lot that separates us from top teams.
However, depth has a been a consistent killer. They can rotate their players in and out to add both diversity and rest to their team all while maintaing pressure and skill.

[Rebel10]

good evaluation...in retrospect Jj parlayed an undefeated regular season and sugar bowl berth into the SMU job. If you go back and look at the scores of the games though it tells a much different story. Several of the wins against some of the worst teams in the country were nailbiters and he caught some bigger programs on down years. His ability to get the South Pacific linemen in there and a one-time hit with Colt and some good receivers paid off. Surprised at his lack of recruiting in Texas. Even Mack has found out you better work at it every day are you can be average real quick. Texas high school coaches and athletes and there fans have high expectations and will work hard for excellence so if you don''t have the same attitude then you are gonna have to go out of state. Notice on the TCU jumb intros the players picture ALONG with their high school coaches names? Too many ex nfl coaches who don't know you need to recruit these great high school coaches AND their parents/guardians and also stay in touch once on campus. Word spreads fast both negative and positive. Nobody wants to hear how great you were in the NFL, they want what is best for their kid and themselves. How many parents or high school coaches of the SMU players would June or his assistants recognize after a game and know their names enough to say hi...five or six maybe. As PAtterson says, you win championships with those second and third team players!

Good point.