SunBelt Conference - 4 or 5 "Star" Recruits
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SunBelt Conference - 4 or 5 "Star" Recruits
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walty12 said
I just point it out because I hear talk on this board all of the time about signing a bunch of 4-star players and obviously that is not reality. So called "diamonds in the rough" are the entire SunBelts reality.
Don't recall anyone saying we should be signing a bunch of "4" stars. I do recall, however, folks saying we should be able to land a few recruits away from the "big boys", and land some recruits that are at least on the radar who have been recruited and offered by D1 programs. Other SB teams were doing this. We weren't prior to this year.
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walty12 said
I just point it out because I hear talk on this board all of the time about signing a bunch of 4-star players and obviously that is not reality. So called "diamonds in the rough" are the entire SunBelts reality.
Don't recall anyone saying we should be signing a bunch of "4" stars. I do recall, however, folks saying we should be able to land a few recruits away from the "big boys", and land some recruits that are at least on the radar who have been recruited and offered by D1 programs. Other SB teams were doing this. We weren't prior to this year.
Exactly, its a good feeling
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d-owl said
walty12 said
I just point it out because I hear talk on this board all of the time about signing a bunch of 4-star players and obviously that is not reality. So called "diamonds in the rough" are the entire SunBelts reality.
Don't recall anyone saying we should be signing a bunch of "4" stars. I do recall, however, folks saying we should be able to land a few recruits away from the "big boys", and land some recruits that are at least on the radar who have been recruited and offered by D1 programs. Other SB teams were doing this. We weren't prior to this year.
We didnt have a $70 million dollar stadium to show recruits before this year.
There has been plenty of talk about signing 4 star players on this board…I dont feel like doing the research and finding it but there definetly has. I just want people to keep perspective and a little reality. Otherwise our fans will be dissapointed year in and year out for no reason.
Our stadium and hard work will allow us to compete for the next level of recruits…but we wont be signing 4 star guys while in the SunBelt. And like Lockhart that isn't an excuse its the reason.
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GeorgiaOwl said
Agree Walty. Not many 4* have EVER signed with the Belt and they NEVER will until the AQ bias is gone AND they allow BCS access to ALL conference champions and that is NOT LIKELY to EVER happen sad to say!
Yea, I hate to say Never and sound so pessimistic but I dont want us not to get any 4 star guys next year and everybody think Pelini did a bad job.
We could recruit those kids and land them in the Belt but we would have to pull a Boise State and start at least competing with the big boys if not beating them sometimes. We cant lose games 60-3 and expect big time recruits to want to come here. We get people talking about "you see FAU give Bama a scare, that program is really coming along"…then we have something.
As far as the conference thing goes…if USF and UCF are able to climb conferences there is absolutelty NO reason why we aren't primed to do so.
All that being said, I do feel like with the right leader the SunBelt could make some serious strides over the next 5 years. We need to split the conference into leagues and have a conf. championship game for one. A lot of the schools in SunBelt are growing programs and getting better every year.
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walty12 said
GeorgiaOwl said
Agree Walty. Not many 4* have EVER signed with the Belt and they NEVER will until the AQ bias is gone AND they allow BCS access to ALL conference champions and that is NOT LIKELY to EVER happen sad to say!
Yea, I hate to say Never and sound so pessimistic but I dont want us not to get any 4 star guys next year and everybody think Pelini did a bad job.
We could recruit those kids and land them in the Belt but we would have to pull a Boise State and start at least competing with the big boys if not beating them sometimes. We cant lose games 60-3 and expect big time recruits to want to come here. We get people talking about "you see FAU give Bama a scare, that program is really coming along"…then we have something.
As far as the conference thing goes…if USF and UCF are able to climb conferences there is absolutelty NO reason why we aren't primed to do so.
All that being said, I do feel like with the right leader the SunBelt could make some serious strides over the next 5 years. We need to split the conference into leagues and have a conf. championship game for one. A lot of the schools in SunBelt are growing programs and getting better every year.
To have a conference championship we need a twelve team league. What will we have with Sobama? 10?
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NJOWL said
walty12 said
GeorgiaOwl said
Agree Walty. Not many 4* have EVER signed with the Belt and they NEVER will until the AQ bias is gone AND they allow BCS access to ALL conference champions and that is NOT LIKELY to EVER happen sad to say!
Yea, I hate to say Never and sound so pessimistic but I dont want us not to get any 4 star guys next year and everybody think Pelini did a bad job.
We could recruit those kids and land them in the Belt but we would have to pull a Boise State and start at least competing with the big boys if not beating them sometimes. We cant lose games 60-3 and expect big time recruits to want to come here. We get people talking about "you see FAU give Bama a scare, that program is really coming along"…then we have something.
As far as the conference thing goes…if USF and UCF are able to climb conferences there is absolutelty NO reason why we aren't primed to do so.
All that being said, I do feel like with the right leader the SunBelt could make some serious strides over the next 5 years. We need to split the conference into leagues and have a conf. championship game for one. A lot of the schools in SunBelt are growing programs and getting better every year.
To have a conference championship we need a twelve team league. What will we have with Sobama? 10?
Yea, I think Sobama mmakes it 10. We need to add 2 more and get that championship game. Georgia State makes sense….I dont know who else does.
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walty12 said
NJOWL said
walty12 said
GeorgiaOwl said
Agree Walty. Not many 4* have EVER signed with the Belt and they NEVER will until the AQ bias is gone AND they allow BCS access to ALL conference champions and that is NOT LIKELY to EVER happen sad to say!
Yea, I hate to say Never and sound so pessimistic but I dont want us not to get any 4 star guys next year and everybody think Pelini did a bad job.
We could recruit those kids and land them in the Belt but we would have to pull a Boise State and start at least competing with the big boys if not beating them sometimes. We cant lose games 60-3 and expect big time recruits to want to come here. We get people talking about "you see FAU give Bama a scare, that program is really coming along"…then we have something.
As far as the conference thing goes…if USF and UCF are able to climb conferences there is absolutelty NO reason why we aren't primed to do so.
All that being said, I do feel like with the right leader the SunBelt could make some serious strides over the next 5 years. We need to split the conference into leagues and have a conf. championship game for one. A lot of the schools in SunBelt are growing programs and getting better every year.
To have a conference championship we need a twelve team league. What will we have with Sobama? 10?
Yea, I think Sobama mmakes it 10. We need to add 2 more and get that championship game. Georgia State makes sense….I dont know who else does.
UTSA I think is starting a football team, and I think Smitty's school University of Incarnate Word also has a team that started playing this year. There was talk in the past about FGCU starting a team but I don't know whatever happened with that
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