Ranking Big Ten recruiting classes by average commit distance (we are #3)
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It's not good when the best talent in the country is thousands of miles away. We should aim to be closer to OSU, who does a better job recruiting nationally.
Are those means or medians? I mean an Aussie kicker could really skew those numbers
Like I said, I don’t think it’s good or bad, the recruiting approach of Franklin is to focus close to home. It was Joe’s focus as well. Although one could argue that state college is 292 miles away from the rest of civilization!
Do you really expect PSU or relocate to columbus?
Geography is important. How many million people live within 5 hours of a school? Those with large population bases don’t need to look as far
Ohio is not what it once was in high school football. To maintain a high level of talent, OSU has gone nationally. OSU is not alone in doing that.
Given that retention of players is difficult in the era of the transfer portal, recruiting locally is probably even more valuable that it had been in the past. I don't think anyone would suggest that we shouldn't try to recruit top athletes from all over the country (including Florida, Texas, etc) but if having the bulk of PSU's classes being "local" from PA, NJ, Maryland, Virginia, etc I think is likely a better strategy than a wider recruiting area. I'm more concerned about actually getting the top local talent to commit than criticizing not getting more players from other regions.
Really surprised at Iowa being high on this list.
Stop the effing complaining! 99% of every school and fanbase would give their left nut to be Penn State. Jesus H C!
