Rodriguez And Personal Attention

Sorry to nitpick, but... "Last year Michigan managed to pick up OT Andrew Schofield, but a variety of other recruiting battles went Notre Dame's way." That was supposed to be Michael Schofield, right?

Great response, Brian. Right now, everything about RR is exactly as we hoped, exactly what we want, just what we need. The only glaring hole is, well, results.

If Rich is to be here past next year, the team has to be at least very good. Otherwise, he's gone, there's another massive cultural change, we edge closer to wandering the 'Notre Dame' desert for a good 10 years, and everything will suck forever and ever.

All in for 2010!

should have a byline of Leeroy Jenkins. they're just as thought out and desperate in their attack.

more toward LC than RR.....

I have heard serious stuff about the staff not calling kids at all for months at a time. Dior Mathis didn't get a call for 4 months or something then all of a sudden bam. Also the support staff really has to step up, its their job to tell the coaches who to call and when to call them. There has also been stories about these same guys not printing field passes and credentials to official visitors. Just silly little stuff like that needs to be tightened up to be a top notch recruiting school.

Re: the first coach quoted, I failed to see where it was that Coach Rod had done something offensive. Giving your player a scholarship offer is bad? Lying to a kid is bad. Over-signing is bad. Just not calling? I don't see where anyone gets hurt.

As someone who works in a high school, recruiting weirds me out on about sixteen levels. I view it as a necessary evil, but I really can't get all excited about it because I know that the kids who are being recruited are the same age as the kids in my class and I can't help but think that the overall ability to make a good decision is such a variable, that you can't just have one right way to do it.

What strikes me about this article though is the principle of reflected glory. Are there some coaches who finally have that one D-I FBS prospect, or even that one BCS level prospect, for perhaps the only time in their career, and they want to revel in it? They've dealt with the lower level coaches across the spectrum and now they want their moment to bask in some praise, no matter how faint, from a big wig in their field? So maybe that's where the "lack of attention" issue comes into play? It's not the player that's upset, it's the coach?

If it were me, personally, I would want to know my offers, make an early verbal, and be done with it so I could focus on my season, because otherwise, it's just a thing and a thing (and then you look at someone like Devin Gardner, who is being recruited by all of these other places to the echo of the whistle. It has to be frustrating to a certain kind of personality, whereas others might revel in it.)

...some coaches like other coaches, some don't. if you're not wild about someone, then everything that person does is just further proof that he's a dick. and vice versa. in any case, it seems like the first quote says a lot more about the high school coach than it does about charlie. there are lots and lots of reasons to think charlie is an idiot...his recruiting methods are way down on the list.

by the way, is it a bad thing to be thrown in with (among others) alabama, ohio state, etc., when it comes to recruiting? or am i misreading the quote?

Junior College transfers? When I was at UM, I remember several juco transfers on the team that played well and contributed. Is this out of favor nowadays in college recruiting?

Granted, I don't pay attention to football recruiting very much, but, doesn't it seem like UM could land some safety help from the juco ranks to fill the gap until the defense takes hold (hopefully) in 2011?

Part of it too might be that he's obviously going to be extra nice to the coaches of kids he REALLY wants. He's not going to purposely diss a coach because of the chance that he might really want one of their kids down the line, but does anyone think he's not going to butter up the coaches of the kids that are at the top of his list?

I think that situation was just because we cooled off on him after he repeatedly got burned at all the camps he went to.

What does that mean?

Expect to see a lot of stuff like this coming out about Weis. It typical PR for firing a coach - people suddenly come out of the woodwork to smear the unemployed. The Palace crew have been masters at it.

The only mildly worrisome thing is we seem to be getting multiple sources (of questionable credibility) saying Ruch Rod isn't particularly coach friendly. And say what you will, but it hasn't been usual to get even NON-credible statements like that about the program. But a lot of that is probably more kick you when your down syndrome.

Having said that, are high school coaches the biggest set of whiney primadonnas on the planet? The girls at their high schools are not as overly dramatic and back-biting as these coaches.