Re: TCU Fans Starting to Face Reality
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:51 pm
It should be at least added that TCU does more with less-they don't recruit a lot of kids who end up being non-qualifiers, they keep kids in school and they graduate kids. They sign 18-20 per year and Tech signs 28-30 per year. Tech sometimes is like a revolving door with non-qualifiers, drop out, suspensions and flunkies. It would be great it there were some way to quantify the Coaches who recruit well and develop those players. For example, for all practical purposes SMU's last 2 classes were greatly inflated by 15-20 spots by players who likely will never contribute on the field because they never qualified, dropped out or flunked out. Ole Miss signed 38 kids a few years ago and Houston Nutt still got fired. There definitely needs to be analysis of inflated recruiting rankings due to marginal academic recruits over the 4-5 years those kids compete. Rivals does publish an enrolled rankings-but its largely ignored and really doesn't trace academic subtractions in ensueing years