You're concentrating too much on the unknown part

Posted on: January 31, 2017 at 12:06:10 CT

and not the diamond part. Generally speaking, I'm sure these kids were known. Seeing the potential is an art in the attention to detail, and whether programs feel they need to work that hard at it.

When you're a blue blood, do you even bother with mere 2stars?

Some of our finds have been due to kids transferring from one school to another or late bloomers playing only a couple years of football. Micheal Egnew was on a 1-9 team but a state champ in long jump. Finding kids where others are not bothering to look.

Most have come from Texas. IMO Longhorn arrogance kept them from noticing. Danario Alexander lived only 40mi from (lowly at the time) Baylor, and they didn't notice until he committed to us.

But even the blue bloods have a few slots still open at the end of the year, because of decommits or losing recruiting battles to other blue bloods and running out of 4/5star uncommiteds. Time to poach. I think their's a case to be made that we have gained a reputation at finding those diamonds

Edited by StlOx at 12:12:21 on 01/31/17