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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4535111, member: 27"]
Agree. These are crucial hires for Dino.

We have needed to upgrade our recruiting since he arrived.

We have lost some good recruiters and they need to be replaced.  Rocky’s system has been in place for a couple of years.  The players know it well.  The remaining defensive staff know it well.  It isn’t important to bring in some guys Rocky has worked with in the past to fill out the defensive staff.  We have people who know it.

The priority has to be getting good recruiters who have contacts in our prime recruiting areas.  We have a chance to upgrade recruiting substantially when Schmidt was replaced and didn’t really do it.  Hoping Farmer might be able to leverage his connections in Texas and Oklahoma to get us a couple of players from those areas but it is unlikely.  If we are lucky, maybe we can get a OL transfer or two from Tulsa or Texas Tech that liked him and want to play for him.  But he is unlikely to make a big impact receruiting.

So Dino has to be strategic with his hires.  I think we really need someone who has recruited NJ/NYC extensively for years to fill out of the spots.  And someone who has recruited Florida for years to fill another spot.

Rocky is not going to help here.  He should be part of the Interview process for the defensive coach(es) we hire but he can’t be the guy making the calls here.  The same applies to Jason Beck,
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