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Looks like Slocum will be back!
ytownchief22:
Doesn't matter if he can or can't recruit. The guy can't keep any of his players in the program. The transfer list keeps growing and growing.
Penguin Nation:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on April 07, 2016, 01:55:28 PM ---Clearly much of this is because we lack a local recruiting base that most other HL schools have. We are not in Chicago, Detroit, nor even the tri-state area that WSU can recruit from. It might be time to consider a heavy local focus, as Tressel once did in football (late 80's to mid-90's). However, that really hampered his replacements. Do you think we have the local talent for this?
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Wright State recruited Mark Hughes from Ursuline, and as a Freshman this year was in WSU's top 7 in minutes and scoring. Why did WSU out-recruit Slocum....here in Youngstown?
jbags:
Underestimate the talent he has recruited ?! Then how do you explain his record if his talent is that good?!
IAA Fan:
--- Quote from: Penguin Nation on April 07, 2016, 02:17:03 PM ---
Wright State recruited Mark Hughes from Ursuline, and as a Freshman this year was in WSU's top 7 in minutes and scoring. Why did WSU out-recruit Slocum....here in Youngstown?
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You know the answer to that question in football recruiting, so why do you not think it applies to other sports and local talent? Why do most MAC schools out recruit us? It really has much less (that you might think) to do with a different level of ball either. WSU is 5-hours from Youngstown. The kid went away to school. Players want the college experience & that is difficult to overcome outside of a "special project" ...which we have had plenty of in MBB and football.
Now he drives to WSU and hears these words "Wright State is a basketball school, YSU is a football school". Game, set, match.
Penguin Nation:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on April 07, 2016, 04:13:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: Penguin Nation on April 07, 2016, 02:17:03 PM ---
Wright State recruited Mark Hughes from Ursuline, and as a Freshman this year was in WSU's top 7 in minutes and scoring. Why did WSU out-recruit Slocum....here in Youngstown?
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You know the answer to that question in football recruiting, so why do you not think it applies to other sports and local talent? Why do most MAC schools out recruit us? It really has much less (that you might think) to do with a different level of ball either. WSU is 5-hours from Youngstown. The kid went away to school. Players want the college experience & that is difficult to overcome outside of a "special project" ...which we have had plenty of in MBB and football.
Now he drives to WSU and hears these words "Wright State is a basketball school, YSU is a football school". Game, set, match.
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I picked Hughes as an example because he selected a school in the same conference as YSU, not a higher RPI conference like the MAC.
If YSU is a football school, then it's not evident during the Strollo era. I would consider YSU an all-sports school. In the last 6 years I'd say WBB has been our premier sport. Also, I would argue a school lacking FB doesn't have a complete "college experience."
Going back to the original point, what tools does Slocum not have? There is local talent (Hughes is an example), he has (had) the 5th highest recruiting budget, and he has decent facilities.
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