Quote Originally Posted by HerdBot View Post
in all fairness, only a handful of players from our 4 peat had FBS offers and most of them were small time FBS. Were not going to win those battles no matter where we go and our current recruiting works just fine. Turner, Marcus, Crockett, Ojuri, Dudzik, Heagle, Emmanuel, Olson, LJ, Haeg, Beck, Vraa, CJ Smith, Jensen, and pretty much every player had zero FBS offers. We beat out other FCS teams for most of these guys and they won't be playing Big Ten teams either. we will be fine no matter what. Actually despite our recent success in recruiting, we really don't need to reinvent the wheel.
I agree with this. The key to any long term success is still going to be finding the 4 or 5 year commitments that are flying under the FBS radar because of some issue that can be developed when they get here. On top of that, they are expected to contribute while they are developing. Combine that with an obvious mandate these young men will have the character to handle this kind of pressure, it has been very successful. The ultimate icing is the number of academic all-conference or all-Americans every year. Their approach is working and would work with the same guys at the next level, just a few more of them.