Pumping up the Recruits
Tuesday Recruitin' links a story about how the section immediately behind the recruits made a huge impression on Quentin Washington when he visited. What may have simply been a free trip for Quentin turned him into a believer because the section recognized him and did some chants to that effect (for purposes of the discussion let's leave the ego stroking element alone, please). Was this a coordinated effort? If not, who sits over there and what can be done to encourage more of that?
Scout cites 18 confirmed recruits for bring your Little Brother to The Big House weekend including 11 from Florida (Ricardo, Wood, Robinson, 2 maybe 3 from The Muck, who else?...). Would be a huge boost if that section knew the recruits, made them feel welcome AND pledged their absolute positive support lest they be sentenced to the gulag (booing=cue to chant "let's go Blue").
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There's no correlation between losing and poor recruiting at big football schools. With that said, they don't need to beat msu. Most of those recruits know what UM is going through and have UM high on their list because of the opportunity to play right away and to return UM to glory.
It is important that the fans show up and make the big house FEEL LIKE THE BIG HOUSE. I was at the Toledo game for my first big house experience. I was not impressed. For most of the game, I felt like I was at a bad baseball game, it was that quiet.