Need to recruit winners.

[Coach_1976]

Normally don’t look at stars next names. Look at how there HS team is doing. We need to go recruit winners that don’t know how to lose. Come in and take control bring in a winning swagger. I know couple of recruits are on State championship favorites we need more of this and less look at me

[Cr1028]

21 minutes ago, Coach_1976 said:

Normally don’t look at stars next names. Look at how there HS team is doing. We need to go recruit winners that don’t know how to lose. Come in and take control bring in a winning swagger. I know couple of recruits are on State championship favorites we need more of this and less look at me

Like him?

[emmitt01]

8 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

Like him?

Love his swagger, but I watched his state title game.  Pretty much threw up bombs to WR’s that outclassed the man covering them…he doesn’t have that here.  
 

I think we make WAY too much of the nano-snapshots if his play and his *cough* proper level of excitement on a sideline

[BillySee58]

Rico Bussey was 1-9 his senior season of high school. Darden’s team was 2-8. These guys were key impact guys on our 9 win teams. This is just such an incredibly simplistic way to approach high school recruiting. Makes zero sense to penalize recruits for having bad high school teammates.

[Cr1028]

35 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Love his swagger, but I watched his state title game.  Pretty much threw up bombs to WR’s that outclassed the man covering them…he doesn’t have that here.  
 

I think we make WAY too much of the nano-snapshots if his play and his *cough* proper level of excitement on a sideline

Oh I agree with you, I was just pointing out that we already have players that meet his criteria.

[keith]

We need to hit the portal hard. 

[meaniegreenie]

4 minutes ago, keith said:

We need to hit the portal hard. 

We've been hitting it...just in the wrong direction.

[greenminer]

Todge took this approach and it didn't work out like you are thinking.  My takeaway from those years was, the athletes that came from ultra-winning traditions really struggled in the face of adversity.

Some of those said guys are used to winning by 40+ points and seriously don't know how to react when someone in college punches them in the face, or they look up and see the other team up by 7 points and nothing they're doing is working.

[Coach_1976]

 

 

I completely understand What you are saying and I guess I should have said players with winning attitudes instead of winning teams. Both Darden and Bussey may have come from bad teams but had winning attitudes. 

[SilverEagle]

Go back about 15-20 years and look at all the outstanding players that have been here and profile them. Especially the walk-ons who became either all-conference or were the leaders-team captains etc. Was there a common psychological characteristic about them? Why were they passed up by other schools only to come here and blossom into outstanding players.  The Andy Brewsters-Chris Hurds-Casey Fitzgeralds, etc, etc. 

[Big Z]