(01-23-2012 10:12 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(01-23-2012 09:45 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(01-23-2012 09:19 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(01-23-2012 08:49 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Really we aren't ahead of any good non-AQ or bad AQ school. In a whole we have comparable offerings at best.

For football recruits until we have the approval to actually build the IPF at this point our crown jewel is the Yordon Center. The back to back 11 win seasons, division championships and bowl victories don't mean as much as how big the stage is.

The only thing that we have control over is our OOC and we need to big as possible. I believe that our desire of getting to a BCS game, with the deliberate planning of a moderate OOC schedule, is impacting the quality of players in recruiting.

Just removing our typical FCS opponent for a 1-1 with a non-AQ FBS opponent in the South (Florida, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana or Arkansas) would greatly help our recruiting in the region.

Too many excuses.

Many on here said we would get better recruits when we built the Yordon Center. Yet five years later we are still getting the same recruits. Why should i believe having an IPF is supposed to get us those players when 11-win seasons, multiple division titles, bowl games, etc. haven't?

The Yordon center is not getting us better players. It is making the players we have better on the field and better results with grades.

We MAY get one or two more higher ranked athletes because of the combination of the Yordon & the IPF (after it is finished) but it will not give us a 4* recruit just because. However, with the IPF it will make the athletes we do have even better.

People specifically said on here the Yordon Center would help us recruit better.

I could care less about stars (two, three, or four). I just want kids who are being recruited by more than 1-AA schools and a few MAC schools. If a kid has multiple 1-A offers then he is sought after.

All i see you coming up with is excuses yet other schools that are in the same situation as us (Tulsa, Marshall, Toledo, Bowling Green, Miami, Troy, etc.) are getting more sought after players than us. What is the excuse as to why they are recruiting better?

I think people are running out of excuses. We have the wins, the titles, the bowls, the Yordon Center, and soon-to-be IPF. What's excuses are left when we lose kids to Ball State, Toledo, BG, UAB, and similar schools?