There are 150 kids we know or ready about per class in and out of state....20 to 25 verbal to RU each year....125 of those kids interview go elsewhere.....frustration should be high because we know about too many kids and can't distinguish any of them in person, if they walked past you in your local mall or down the shore.
TOS recently did a review of names of kids and there actually were 250 known names with RU offers in and out of state/region.....at 250 kids with a max of 25 verbals, you are not going to get 90% of the known names mentioned over the course of a year.....I know it's hard to digest, but it's literally that many names folks and for the most part, most are at the same talent level, with a handful of few rare exceptions (Rashad Gary being a unique talent).
The rest are really a hit or miss bag of items that you cannot confirm with any confidence will succeed, other than separating their upbringing and how they are raised off the field....typically that is what separates the more consistent kids with their performance early and late in their careers in college.
In that scenario, RU has 5 high quality kids/verbals and a handful of other strong leans that are going to verbal in the next 2 months...some we know about already, which essentially limits the true amount of spots left to this class to less than 10-12, spots, depending on attrition.
It's amazing to think of things in that simple of terms, but we continue to ignore the obvious items and that's what happens on game days....do we have the coordinators in place goes well beyond the overhyped recruiting scene....I know fans are enamored with Franklin and other schools, but there is Ohio State and everyone else right now.....I'm not do much able to tell if Ron Johnson will be the next Max Issaka or Kemoko Turay as far as actual production on the field. What I do know is that, it's how you actually use your roster that is 10X more important at the coordinator level than the amount of recruiting pieces you believe you have accumulated.
But I'm probably not the best person to talk to about things....I had a fun weekend with some friends Friday night after work and ran into a couple of folks here on Round Table, watching Rangers/TB and had a BBQ at a friends house last night with some beats/music and talked hoops, hockey, NFL football etc....the last thing I'm losing sleep over is RU football recruiting, it's not going to fail like many believe and revenue is coming, so if a change is needed later, there are funds in place to do so.
The program is on the uptick and year one helped solve the mystery of how far RU has to go BUT also reconfirmed, how far RU has progressed. Year two's schedule is daunting, but that's how you challenge your staff, find out about your players, not "guessing" or speculating like years past in the Big East.....
