Recruiting History
Hey, so, I've been on this board for awhile now, and using the site for longer. I follow recruiting somewhat closely. It seems to me that recruiting information is much, much more widely available now. That said, some posters seem to have a great deal of knowledge about recruiting in the early 2000s and even the 90s. This is a group of legends and myths that I know nothing about, as I was too young to really care that much at the time-the first recruit I recall reading about was Mike Hart, in the Ann Arbor News. I was just wondering. . .where does this all come from? How was recruiting covered in the past, and how do those of you in the know find out stories that the general public doesn't seem to know?
As an example, I hear cryptic mentionings of a lot of recruitments, but never full stories of what happened. Carlos Brown is a good example; Ronald Johnson is a bad one.
Back in the late '90's, there was a lot of info out there that was free (or freely reported). I discovered recruiting through a site the a poster on the victards board (ny1995) used to write. The first year I really followed was the David Terrell class. After that, it was bits and pieces from the pay sites like scout and rivals. Usually you could find the juicy stuff about 3 days after it was reported. They've clamped down on that a bit. There were always little hidden gems around the net if you could find them. The Winged Helmet had a poster named "brunk" that no one knew, but was always right on recruits and knew things the pay sites didn't. He/she hasn't posted in several years (I miss his/her posts). The scout free board had a poster in 03/04 that was in the know. He had connections with Warren Harding HS and got a lot of info from the recruits there that he shared.
Worm02 is the Harding poster. He still pops in once in a while.
I used a couple of his posts in the "Hello" for Davion Rogers, if I recall correctly.
He posts a lot more on OSU boards (I believe he's an OSU fan, but that could just be me remembering incorrectly).
Does anybody know when they started having the "stars" system.
WTKA. I first started listening in 1994 or so, and back then Doug Karsch was on afternoons, and he covered it like nobody else did at the time in terms of focusing on Michigan. Back then guys like Bill Kurelic and Allan Wallace were highly regarded within national and regional recruiting circles, in large part because relatively few people concentrated on it like they did, and Karsch routinely would interview them live on-air during recruiting season. With WTKA's focus on Michigan athletics it was natural that covering recruiting would become a big deal, and after Karsch left the recruting coverage baton was passed on to the guys who replaced him on the station. Sam Webb has taken to a higher level than ever, and there is nobody in the country better informed and more routinely in personal contact with Michigan recruits than Webb is, at least with respect to football and basketball. Kurelic is widely derided these days around here as a shameless ND homer/slappy, but back in the day he was way ahead of anyone else in the degree and quality of his recruiting in the midwest.
Bill Kurelic is an OSU guy.
you mentioned Kurelic as a ND homer/slappy, when he is the OSU slappy...You might have meant Tom "army game" Lemming as the ND love fest guy....