This year seems eerily familiar, in a good way, to some of Greg’s best recruiting classes during his first tenure. Speed, size where needed, under the radar guys that probably won’t be for long, etc. it’s great to witness.
Schiano Of Old Recruiting
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Only difference now is that it's not restricted to just Florida.
The results might be similar, but he’s far more efficient about it.
It’s June and he already has a class of 20 kids. And according to what he’s said, he only took 180 offers to do it. This is why we’re paying him the 4M salary as opposed to the 2.3M we were previously paying him.
This is Schiano with 15 years experience.
Wouldn’t mind seeing a few 4 stars sprinkled in.
Probably. It is sheer lunacy to be throwing a LOT of NIL money at an unproven recruit coming out of high school. Maybe for the very top elite recruits, which Rutgers will rarely get a shot at. IIRC, in the interview with Brenneman that I posted, Greg alluded to something like this. I don't have time to look it up, but it makes sense. NIL for transfer portal players makes a lot more sense, and of course, for players on the current roster who have shown potential and/or proven themselves on the bigger stage.
A team with a limited pot of NIL money has to spend it wisely.
We need NIL to get the 4 star and 5 star recruit. Jaylan Hornsby would have resolved our receiving talent issues, once and for all. Instead, he’s taking a big bag and going to Texas A&M. The recruits we are getting, are good recruits, but they will require development, and most likely aren’t the instant impact recruits that would help us win sooner. So you’re just going to have to be patient.
Gotcha. Btw Ive been patient for 15 years.
Was gonna respond exactly like that.
BTW.. love the old logo in your avatar. I still cannot believe we paid some design firm to come up with those over-produced, incredibly busy logo/brand designs and chose them. Thankfully they were short-lived and the Block R was brought back to life.
Some of the high 3* would absolutely be 4* in NJ.
I don't know if Michigan still has the policy that you don't get NIL until you get there and perform, but it seemed that way originally when Harbaugh said, "But with the NIL, it can become transactional. We’re not going to recruit players and be promising them money to come here. But, it’s been proven — you come here and you play well, then your jersey starts selling, you start getting these deals." Anyone know if that is still the case at Michigan?
Classic fence hopper. When Rutgers starts winning you'll say you were supporting all along.
Will probably end up with two or three 4 stars.
Agree with many that we rarely landed the 4 and 5 star players before NIL. These are the types of classes that will make us much more competitive.
Our NIL money is used to keep the players we developed, not used to buy *s.
Nightshift right on the money, Spending NIL money for unproven H.S. Kids 4 stars or not is just downright dumb. NIL should be used on portal position of need kids and to keep players who are performing here. Last podcast Ritchie indicated 4 of last yrs. nj top ten have already transferred, good indication they were not successful or weren't going to be successful where they were. Also some of the high 3,stars will turn into 4 stars by the end of the fb season. The only problem with the portal is proven players with value are not overly interested in program building, they want to play in successful programs along with NIL were are not there yet
Who would have thrown Hornsby the ball if he came to RU? To have an impact as a receiver, you need the ball to be thrown where it can be caught.
Gavin Wimsatt is going to play much better this year.
It's already been 3 years.Let Greg develop his on his under the radar guys. In 3 years, the new coach will have a foundation to work with
I’d love for this to be the case. The spring game didn’t exactly inspire optimism of a drastic turnaround.
He's still super young. Remember he enrolled during his HS Sr season. While he may be a RS Sophomore on the roster, he's really a RS Freshman.
Weather was bad and WR1 and 2 weren’t on the field. I wouldn’t take away too much from the game. 10-18 for 125 yards is honestly better than how he was in most of his games last year either way.
Accuracy in QB play makes all the difference in CFB
We have not seen this yet from our QB
Anybody who says Gavin Wimsatt will be much better this year is a fool.
Let’s hope Kirk can develop schemes that will somewhat compensate for this and give the offense some pulse.
We have not seen this yet from our QB
Anybody who says Gavin Wimsatt will be much better this year is a fool.
Let’s hope Kirk can develop schemes that will somewhat compensate for this and give the offense some pulse.
I'll volunteer to wear the dunce cap then. For Gavin to be "much better" then last year is not a very high bar to reach. He's not going to be some type of all B1G 10 QB but I expect a dramatic improvement.
I'm all for a wait and see attitude.
Guaranteeing failure is as foolish as guaranteeing success.
If he's right it's "I told you so", if he's wrong it's a "I'm happy to be wrong". Win win situation.
That's the MO for many of the people on this board.