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Chase Daniel & quesitons about Drink's recruiting - long
Posted on: September 30, 2022 at 17:07:28 CT
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Gary Pinkel was a long time assistant to Don James at Washington. James pursued a recruiting strategy that consisted of locking up the prospects from Washington and then going to California where he worked very had to mine the motherload of talent there. The strategy was obviously highly successful.
Pinkel pursued the same strategy at Mizzou. He attempted and had good success locking up Missouri and then he went to Texas.
If memory serves, Pinkel had four or five assistant coaches spend all their recruiting time in Texas. He talked about how it was necessaary for recruiters to spend several years cultivating Texas high school coaches inorder to gain their confidence and get them to let the Tiger recruiters talk with their school's best prospects.
I would suggest that one thing this board can agree upon is that Pinkel eventually enjoyed a lot of success in the Lone Star State. Evidence is the 2013 team that won the SEC East. It was loaded with standout players who had preped in Texas.
My impression is that Drinkwitz has pursued a somewhat diffierent strategy. For example, early in his Mizzou tenure he talked about recruiting kids who were within a 400 mile radius of Columbia. That doesn't take in very much of Texas. I've seen nothing about where and to what exent the assistant coaches recruit. I.e. are any regularly working the Lone Star State or anywhere elese.
When Mizzou moved to the SEC, Pinkle switched a lot of recruiting resources from Texas to the Atlanta area. Then Barry Odom switched them or at least some of them back to Texas, but got fired before it paid any dividends.
Looking long term at the Tiger program, I'd argue that Missouri doesn't produce enough talent to allow a program, even one that gets virtually every Missouri kid, to compete with the top programs in the SEC. That makes out of state recruiting critical and I would be more comfortable if Mizzou were attempting mine Texas rather than Georgia, Florida, etc.
Yes, I'm aware we now have the Transfer Portal and NIL, but again I suggest they need to be applied to Texas.
My questions are basically, does Drink have coaches in the field recruiting and if so, which ones and where?
Edited by ScottsdaleTiger at 17:08:51 on 09/30/22
Pinkel pursued the same strategy at Mizzou. He attempted and had good success locking up Missouri and then he went to Texas.
If memory serves, Pinkel had four or five assistant coaches spend all their recruiting time in Texas. He talked about how it was necessaary for recruiters to spend several years cultivating Texas high school coaches inorder to gain their confidence and get them to let the Tiger recruiters talk with their school's best prospects.
I would suggest that one thing this board can agree upon is that Pinkel eventually enjoyed a lot of success in the Lone Star State. Evidence is the 2013 team that won the SEC East. It was loaded with standout players who had preped in Texas.
My impression is that Drinkwitz has pursued a somewhat diffierent strategy. For example, early in his Mizzou tenure he talked about recruiting kids who were within a 400 mile radius of Columbia. That doesn't take in very much of Texas. I've seen nothing about where and to what exent the assistant coaches recruit. I.e. are any regularly working the Lone Star State or anywhere elese.
When Mizzou moved to the SEC, Pinkle switched a lot of recruiting resources from Texas to the Atlanta area. Then Barry Odom switched them or at least some of them back to Texas, but got fired before it paid any dividends.
Looking long term at the Tiger program, I'd argue that Missouri doesn't produce enough talent to allow a program, even one that gets virtually every Missouri kid, to compete with the top programs in the SEC. That makes out of state recruiting critical and I would be more comfortable if Mizzou were attempting mine Texas rather than Georgia, Florida, etc.
Yes, I'm aware we now have the Transfer Portal and NIL, but again I suggest they need to be applied to Texas.
My questions are basically, does Drink have coaches in the field recruiting and if so, which ones and where?
Edited by ScottsdaleTiger at 17:08:51 on 09/30/22
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