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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 4721676, member: 5058"]
For my part, I don’t like it either. I am only acknowledging it as a new factor in recruiting and building a better team and while I started out somewhat sarcastically (in my mind at least) I began to wonder how we can work the new normal to our greatest advantage no matter how I feel about it. I just don’t think we can get where we want to be looking for 5 year diamonds in the rough all the time and hiding them until they are in their 4th year.

As example, look at Lamson. Other than a spring game, we never saw him play and he’s now gone after 3 years. He was an under-recruited diamond in the rough. He seems indicative of that “5 year player” model in today’s impatient sports world. Do we still cheer his success at Stanford? He couldn’t wait, and he left us. 3 years teaching him the offense and he’s gone. We have nothing to show for it. How does this help our recruiting? J’had Carter at least saw the field. We got to see some of his potential. At OSU they will have to talk about his stats at Syracuse. If he goes pro, they will show clips of him in our uniform as well as OSU come draft cycle. They will look at his career trajectory and include us. I like neither scenario, but I still think the latter serves us better than the former.
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