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2015 YSU Football Recruiting Thread

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IAA Fan:

--- Quote from: paladin on January 19, 2015, 03:11:12 PM ---If Bo's answer is to recruit the Valley, then YSU is doomed to losing seasons. Take that to the bank.

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I cannot find that smiley with a gun to it's head. What you say is true, if you read it literally. You infer that is his ONLY solution. Obviously we cannot find enough local talent to field a great team. You know as well as I do how attached the Valley is to HS ball.  Clearly increasing local talent on the team (in the words of Martha Stewart) is a good thing. Hiring Pelini is also a good thing. All of these little items add up to increased attention, excitement and hopefully attendance.

It will be Pelini and his staff that make it happen "on the field". Do you think there is much out there, that we as fans know, that a coach, AD, or president that is former coach/AD does not? At this point, the only thing that you can "take to the bank" are the receipts from a first-home game sell-out. After that, the team will bring the fans back for more.

Can you not just say something similar to the fact that YSU does not get top talent locally and will obviously still need to recruit nationally? This is why you draw such criticism from people on the board Paladin. It is the way you package your message

FOOTBALLFEVER:

--- Quote from: ysufan0505 on January 19, 2015, 12:18:52 PM ---Keep in mind, we are still pretty young at most positions. The last 2 solid recruiting classes by Wolf are going to see more playing time and those kids have some serious potential especially on the defensive side of the ball. This class isn't going to make or break the program by any means....

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I will agree that this year's class won't make or break the program and thankfully it's small. When I see a linebacker back out of his only offer from a Northeast conference school and commit to the penguins I find that concerning. When I see player's committing here without  any other offers including a Division 2 offer I find that concerning. When i see players picking up their first offer from us two weeks out from National signing day that concerns me as well. I really don't care how close we are in proximity to any other mac school or any other F.C.S. conference within a 500 mile radius. We are part of the best conference in the nation that is ranked ahead of several F.B.S. conferences and we need to start recruiting that way. The majority of the recruits we bring in here should have at least a minimum of 5 F.C.S. offers. BO AND THE STAFF HE DOES HAVE ARE IN DESPERATION MODE AND IT SHOWS

paladin:
Increasing "local" talent here is NOT a good thing unless they are B1G caliber players and we are not getting those. Even the MAC players of recent years have not been very good and don't pan out well in the MVFC. There was a Mooney safety that got picked on quite often over these past few years. YSU desparately  needs national players, especially from Fla., Calif., and other Southern states and fewer from the Valley. This class looks awful so far. Another back to back poor recruiting class will bring Paladin to predicting losing seasons. That's how I first made the first predictions years ago of back to back losing seasons when everyone thought all was well and I was nuts.

BTW, in Wolf first few months here , he recruited , ALMOST alone, and brought in a top class. Pelini never carried a "recruiting" reputation and its showing.

Spiderlegs:
Paladin is right. Pelini couldn't draw anybody to Nebraska. The Cornhuskers were a D-II team at best. ;)

FOOTBALLFEVER:
Paladin has just nailed it and nothing else really needs said !! Wolf had watched the likes of N.D.S.U. beat up on the B.C.S. programs and he made up his mind that he had to recruit B.C.S. caliber athletes that B.C.S.school's  thought weren't quite good enough in order to compete for a conference championship. If it took going national that's what he did. Times have changed if you get a local kid that is borderline F.B.S-F.C.S. they want to get away from home for a little breathing room and the hometown aspect is irrelevant. Case and point the local lineman who choose Lehigh. And as far as your local 3 and 4 star recruits you can forget about that

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