(06-04-2013 04:06 PM)digibrink Wrote:  

(05-29-2013 08:14 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(05-29-2013 03:40 PM)CincyBearcatFan86 Wrote:  

(05-29-2013 09:11 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Anyone who thinks this conference is not going to impact recruiting is kidding themselves. It already is.

Forget the usual suspects, UL, UK and middlin' B1G and ACC schools are going to eat UC's lunch in our backyard on the recruiting trail.

There are now 2 clearly defined tiers in FCS and we are riding in the 2nd class car.

Those schools had be doing this to UC for like 2-3years now nothing is new it's just more of the same. UC will always get a top30-60 incoming class each year no matter the conference.

I disagree. Not nearly to his level. We are not even on the radar right now with the kinds of Ohio recruits we would fight for in years past. Look at UC's target list. It's like they have abandoned Ohio and are instead focusing on "under the radar" guys from outside of the Midwest. We'll know in a few years how that pans out.

For instance - why didn't we offer these brothers from St. X? One is a 95 LB, the other a RB.

http://247sports.com/Article/Hilliard-Br...bor-133599

Because St. X, like every other major Cincinnati program other than Elder and Colerain is essentially closed to UC. There are too many people around this city whose opinion of the University of Cincinnati has not caught up with reality. They view it as an overgrown commuter school with little to no academics, a drab and dreary campus, the guarantee of getting raped or robbed the second you cross short vine and with a degree that does not the same opportunities as other name brand universities in the mid west. That UC has a pretty vibrant off campus scene, that UC's campus is an architectural wonder, that UC has become a leading research institution and that the University has cultivated deep connections with the P&G, Fifth Third and the like is completely lost on the West Chester and Montgomery crowds which populate most of the GCL schools.

The simple truth is that UC has to expend a lot of their recruiting capital to overcome that negative perception locally. That is something they don't have to do outside of Cincinnati. The program and the school have much better reputations outside of the 275 beltway than in it. The only real way to change that is to land a really high profile local kid and have him develop into a star (think Michael Bush and Brian Brohm). But that hasn't happened in a long time, nor does it look likely to happen soon.