Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Ottoble, post: 1594805, member: 2539"] Maybe they don't need to learn the hard way maybe someone can DM or email them. Syracuse can be a tough place to recruit, it is improving greatly, but until they prove to be a winner [U]on our field[/U], they will face many similar challenges as previous staffs. My words: "Be careful not burn any recruiting bridges, recruiting has been leaps and bounds better in the past two years, after several years of hard rebuilding. You are following a popular staff in the eyes of high school coaches, that invested in their players as men, you want to keep that positive family flow going." The new staff has a similar family approach that attracted so many recruits to SU in the past few years. If they keep those connections open it will make the new staff's life 100% easier in the future when that 5 star guy comes out of the same high school as the 3 star guy you gave a shot and turned into a NFLer. I don't think this applies to a cornerback in this case, but if a kid doesn't fit your system and won't play much that is fine. An honest frank discussion with the player, his family and his coach with the player's best interest in mind will be respected, but he deserves that visit in person. I also believe that any kid you move on from a coach should offer to serve his family as a sounding board as he makes a new decision because a College Coach knows other programs and coaching staffs better than anyone. If I'm Dino once the quiet period starts I'm on the road and my staff is on the road and on the phone with Eric White and Cole dial meeting with the head coaches of every Syracuse current player. Make sure every coach knows you are going to do everything you can to make their player the best they can be. Then start going to all the coaches where we had a near miss on a recruit in the past few years, saying our family is still strong, our academics are still spectacular, and now we are going to build a powerhouse. HS coaches are where this recruiting game is won and lost, this was learned the very hard way after the coach P era, and we were just starting to get back. Yes winning solves recruiting but recruiting feeds winning and we don't have winning on our field yet. [/QUOTE]

Verification: What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?