gopherdudepart2
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We know on an intuitive level that we will never be able to recruit the types of athletes that Wisconsin, Michigan, tOSU, Iowa and Nebraska can
the 4 and 5 star types, Mason said it, Brewster thought he could do it and Kill has said it is hard to recruit that type of athlete here. Can we recruit enough
guy's that can compete with them? Northwestern seems to be able to get players at a very difficult institution to get players in. I don't think you can build a statistics based system but you can identify talent that can win here. We have trouble keeping academic at risk students in school that can make progress to remain eligible, this also makes it difficult.
I heard Jerry Kill point to the fact that he recruited Marcus Jones today and that he needs more football players of his type that he can bring them in and then have the time to mature them to he point where they are ready to compete in the Big10. I understand change is difficult and culture change is even more difficult. His comments make me understand that he has a plan, but will he have enough success to be able to see that plan to fruition? Everyone knows that his health issues are going to hurt him in recruiting and might hurt the ability for Minnesota to attract players.
Is it possible that a coaching staff can design a recruiting system that has the potential to recruit traits of "football players" with things like "want to" "heart" effort
and a combination of talent and just enough ego or having a chip on there shoulder that could help elevate a downtrodden program like Minnesota? This seems to be the method that Wisconsin used, build the Walk-on program, take your lumps, start winning games, build sustained success. Can we mine
these competitors backyards to find players that have been overlooked or undervalued in talent locally or even find the most out of our own? This seems like our best opportunity to achieve some competitive balance, find talent in our neighbors backyards and locally that are undervalued or overlooked.
I know Michigan and Ohio have a lot of high school talent and Illinois has a lot of talent available to them. Do places like Iowa and Wisconsin, even Nebraska really have that much more talent in there high school ranks then Minnesota, I don't feel that and not from what I have watched. We constantly hear about atmosphere and not being a college town, how do you build that when you cannot get Wins on the football field. IF a coach ever does turn this turd he will have statues and be forever remembered. If we could turn back the clock we all would. This place had a college atmosphere when this place had winning but all of our success is in black and white pictures. We have great facilities, a nice place to play and we have at least that, god do we need to get lucky on a few more players, don't know how you do it but we need a few overachievers.
the 4 and 5 star types, Mason said it, Brewster thought he could do it and Kill has said it is hard to recruit that type of athlete here. Can we recruit enough
guy's that can compete with them? Northwestern seems to be able to get players at a very difficult institution to get players in. I don't think you can build a statistics based system but you can identify talent that can win here. We have trouble keeping academic at risk students in school that can make progress to remain eligible, this also makes it difficult.
I heard Jerry Kill point to the fact that he recruited Marcus Jones today and that he needs more football players of his type that he can bring them in and then have the time to mature them to he point where they are ready to compete in the Big10. I understand change is difficult and culture change is even more difficult. His comments make me understand that he has a plan, but will he have enough success to be able to see that plan to fruition? Everyone knows that his health issues are going to hurt him in recruiting and might hurt the ability for Minnesota to attract players.
Is it possible that a coaching staff can design a recruiting system that has the potential to recruit traits of "football players" with things like "want to" "heart" effort
and a combination of talent and just enough ego or having a chip on there shoulder that could help elevate a downtrodden program like Minnesota? This seems to be the method that Wisconsin used, build the Walk-on program, take your lumps, start winning games, build sustained success. Can we mine
these competitors backyards to find players that have been overlooked or undervalued in talent locally or even find the most out of our own? This seems like our best opportunity to achieve some competitive balance, find talent in our neighbors backyards and locally that are undervalued or overlooked.
I know Michigan and Ohio have a lot of high school talent and Illinois has a lot of talent available to them. Do places like Iowa and Wisconsin, even Nebraska really have that much more talent in there high school ranks then Minnesota, I don't feel that and not from what I have watched. We constantly hear about atmosphere and not being a college town, how do you build that when you cannot get Wins on the football field. IF a coach ever does turn this turd he will have statues and be forever remembered. If we could turn back the clock we all would. This place had a college atmosphere when this place had winning but all of our success is in black and white pictures. We have great facilities, a nice place to play and we have at least that, god do we need to get lucky on a few more players, don't know how you do it but we need a few overachievers.