Clearly we are into the pre-August “summer doldrums” now—so maybe this is the inevitable time the boredom and impatience would spur just such thoughts: the ongoing “same old story” has made it a prime topic too...
“Why in the HELL can we not grab, at the very least, ‘our reasonable share’ of 5-star recruits?!!”
I mean, I KNOW all the usual explanations/excuses, but somehow they ultimately ring hollow...Even the most hopeful of them, including and above all the idea that “Mullens has his own ideas about whom he’s looking for and what he can do with them”, born out by the quality of talent developing on the field season by season, still doesn’t change the fact that we compete but regularly are beaten out for the most highly-rated in-state prep players by OUT OF STATE programs!
Yes, we seem to spot and grab the slightly MISrated kids who turn out to be really good ones after all, but we sure could use at least a few more of those “can’t miss studs” too!
I don’t really know what to do about “the obvious question” except to suggest the obvious solution—To wit: Maybe we need to hire a coupla hot-shot young RECRUITERS??? (Okay, yeah—I admitted from the top here that I had nothing to offer but “the obvious”!)
Anyway, at this point, it sure seems like the only thing standing between us and that final step into The Elite status of “Regular Playoff Threat” IS our regularly stocking a decent portion of the best our talent-rich state has to offer.
It don’t take Nostradamus to see THAT.
“Why in the HELL can we not grab, at the very least, ‘our reasonable share’ of 5-star recruits?!!”
I mean, I KNOW all the usual explanations/excuses, but somehow they ultimately ring hollow...Even the most hopeful of them, including and above all the idea that “Mullens has his own ideas about whom he’s looking for and what he can do with them”, born out by the quality of talent developing on the field season by season, still doesn’t change the fact that we compete but regularly are beaten out for the most highly-rated in-state prep players by OUT OF STATE programs!
Yes, we seem to spot and grab the slightly MISrated kids who turn out to be really good ones after all, but we sure could use at least a few more of those “can’t miss studs” too!
I don’t really know what to do about “the obvious question” except to suggest the obvious solution—To wit: Maybe we need to hire a coupla hot-shot young RECRUITERS??? (Okay, yeah—I admitted from the top here that I had nothing to offer but “the obvious”!)
Anyway, at this point, it sure seems like the only thing standing between us and that final step into The Elite status of “Regular Playoff Threat” IS our regularly stocking a decent portion of the best our talent-rich state has to offer.
It don’t take Nostradamus to see THAT.