(09-27-2014 07:47 PM)odusteeler Wrote: The JUCOs we've recruited for the last 2 years are not FCS level players (and they're 3rd & 4th year players). Neither are the last 2 full recruiting classes. That excuse is getting tiresome.
Doesn't mean it's not true. Why did anyone think we could recruit some JUCOs, and 2 FBS classes and think we'd have the depth to compete with schools that have had players on their strength and conditioning program for 4 or 5 years?
The last 2 recruiting classes were FBS recruits, sure, but they are still "young" players. Our team's depth and overall strength won't be where it needs to be to consistently compete with FBS schools until our FBS recruits are upperclassmen--juniors and seniors. We need FBS recruits that have spent 3, 4, or 5 seasons in the program, not 1 or 2 sprinkled with JUCOs who have also only been here a short time.
And yes, we have some JUCO recruits, but that doesn't mean they all pan out. We need an entire cycle of actual FBS recruits--5th year seniors all the way through freshman before this gets where it needs to be. We need to be able to redshirt any freshman we want, not any freshman we can. We're not there yet. Our team is not "mature" yet, even with the JUCOs.
I know this is a message board and we can all do it better than the professionals, but people need to be realistic. There's not a "solution" posted on this board that the staff hasn't talked about. Now they may not have tweeted about it enough to satisfy us, but they've talked about it.