10-29-2014, 03:26 PM
I always thought it would be nice if some of the schools from CUSA could take recruits that might go to the C7, but then I thought about how many local recruits those schools get. It also dawned on me that each school (sans ECU) is in a metro full of talent for both football and basketball. Luckily, Eastern NC is choc full of talent (Todd Gurley and Montrezl Harrell are the first that immediately come to mind- not that we offered them or they would've played for ECU).
I question if there's anything the AAC can do to pluck more of the highly rated recruits out of our own backyards? A media barrage of billboards and commercials? Hosting events with ESPN or something like that? I don't know. I know winning cures all (SMU), but it's probably also nice to know you're playing for a school where the fans really rally behind the team and get up for conference opponents.
Or should every team just spend a lot of money on good coaches? Thoughts?
PS- It seems like we (ECU) keep inching closer and closer to taking the big recruits away from big time schools. We're going down to the wire for football recruits against some schools like Ohio State, South Carolina, etc. We're even down to the wire against UNC for a basketball player. I'm sure other schools see this as well. How do we seal the deal? Will our schools ever seal the deal? In football? What about the lower level basketball schools?
PPS-We've had recruits with C7 offers in both classes since being invited to the American, suck it basketball only schools.
I question if there's anything the AAC can do to pluck more of the highly rated recruits out of our own backyards? A media barrage of billboards and commercials? Hosting events with ESPN or something like that? I don't know. I know winning cures all (SMU), but it's probably also nice to know you're playing for a school where the fans really rally behind the team and get up for conference opponents.
Or should every team just spend a lot of money on good coaches? Thoughts?
PS- It seems like we (ECU) keep inching closer and closer to taking the big recruits away from big time schools. We're going down to the wire for football recruits against some schools like Ohio State, South Carolina, etc. We're even down to the wire against UNC for a basketball player. I'm sure other schools see this as well. How do we seal the deal? Will our schools ever seal the deal? In football? What about the lower level basketball schools?
PPS-We've had recruits with C7 offers in both classes since being invited to the American, suck it basketball only schools.