2016-2017 Season

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by UCalum08

Can't recruit players who already have the door closed on playing in the AAC.

Crazy. Get highly ranked consistently. Get further in March. They will come if we win. They don't go to northwestern because they are in a power conference. They choose teams with winning traditions and recent success (and great coaches). Of course there will be exceptions. Power conference helps of course but we can and should be doing better.

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by waterhead

Crazy. Get highly ranked consistently. Get further in March. They will come if we win. They don't go to northwestern because they are in a power conference. They choose teams with winning traditions and recent success. Of course there will be exceptions. Power conference helps of course but we can and should be doing better.

All we have to do is recruit better. Then better again. We don't have to be KY.

[WAITE HOYT 2]

Originally Posted by waterhead

All we have to do is recruit better. Then better again. We don't have to be KY.

the point he is making is recruits are shutting us down prior to getting involved with us. Hard to recruit highly ranked kids when they are not interested in your program.

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by WAITE HOYT 2

the point he is making is recruits are shutting us down prior to getting involved with us. Hard to recruit highly ranked kids when they are not interested in your program.

I know. That's where the ranking and winning and great coaches comes in.

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by WAITE HOYT 2

the point he is making is recruits are shutting us down prior to getting involved with us. Hard to recruit highly ranked kids when they are not interested in your program.

The lower half of power conferences don't get great recruits unless they have tradition, a great coach or recent success.

[WAITE HOYT 2]

Originally Posted by waterhead

The lower half of power conferences don't get great recruits unless they have tradition, a great coach or recent success.

Either way we are not landing those kind of kids and the numbers indicate it is conference related. Will be interesting to see how many the AAC land in the future. I'm not saying winning doesn't help but league recognition is huge to these kids. We also have no choice but to make it work

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by WAITE HOYT 2

Either way we are not landing those kind of kids and the numbers indicate it is conference related. Will be interesting to see how many the AAC land in the future. I'm not saying winning doesn't help but league recognition is huge to these kids. We also have no choice but to make it work

The numbers indicate it is conference related because that is where most of the big time programs are. It's not rocket science. 13 went to the big East. Power conference is an excuse.

[waterhead]

As of right now power conference is huge in football. I hope it doesn't become more of a basketball thing before we get something big going.

[WAITE HOYT 2]

Originally Posted by waterhead

The numbers indicate it is conference related because that is where most of the big time programs are. It's not rocket science. 13 went to the big East. Power conference is an excuse.

The big east is a basketball only league. Certainly your not suggesting that its unique status doesn't play a part in their success recruiting. Conference is not a excuse it is reality. We need to land in a Power 5 conference.

[jacobkdoyle]

Originally Posted by waterhead

As of right now power conference is huge in football. I hope it doesn't become more of a basketball thing before we get something big going.

Just depends who you are in basketball imo. Obviously most of the teams in the AAC feel the pain of the lack of 4/5* depth in the conference. It matters much less for us and UConn. That's the same for P5 in that regard. It's very top heavy. Many of the P5 schools have nothing on us in terms of tradition and recent success.

I have a hard time telling where some posters fall on this stuff. On one hand we use the rankings here as an excuse. Sometimes though, we use the rankings to point out how many stars our starters are. And other times (usually after we land a recruit) we talk about rankings not mattering, there is little difference between player #50 to #250.

Here's what I know...we aren't going to recruit with the best of the best of the best. There are only a few schools out of 351 who get multiple one and dones. But we should be able to develop competitive D1 players over the course of their careers. And when it comes to our conference, where about 2/3 of our games are played, we're actually the ones who have the advantages. We can blur things with "landscape" talk, but I've still never heard a reason why we shouldn't be winning the AAC regular season and/or tournament damn near every year. I'm tired of the constant "reasons" why not. Get it done.