KF always talks about he "reevaluates" things yearly in the off-season. I wonder if he made some conscience change to how we recruit after the 2009 signing class. We recruited very poorly in 2008 and 2009. Granted we didn't have great teams, but we were coming off a nice 5-6 year streak. We had some name notoriety, and just recruited terribly.
2010, 2011, and 2012 all have been far better recruiting years. Again maybe that is just the byproduct of having better 2008 and 2009 football teams. But these last two years have been disappointing and we still are recruiting strong this year.
I'm just curious if KF made some strategic change. I doubt we will ever know. We seem to recruit earlier than we used to. Many more unofficial visits in the spring/summer. More summer commits, more Junior days. Other than that I can't discern any real pattern. I just hope we keep recruiting at this clip. We can win with the types of players we brought in this year and the past two. It's hard to win (as we are seeing) with the 2008 and 2009 type classes.
2010, 2011, and 2012 all have been far better recruiting years. Again maybe that is just the byproduct of having better 2008 and 2009 football teams. But these last two years have been disappointing and we still are recruiting strong this year.
I'm just curious if KF made some strategic change. I doubt we will ever know. We seem to recruit earlier than we used to. Many more unofficial visits in the spring/summer. More summer commits, more Junior days. Other than that I can't discern any real pattern. I just hope we keep recruiting at this clip. We can win with the types of players we brought in this year and the past two. It's hard to win (as we are seeing) with the 2008 and 2009 type classes.
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