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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 4529874, member: 6809"] This is old rationale, but to compete with the south we had better begin winning consistently to attract attention and Gino Gigliotti better up his game as Recruiting Director. Easy to say, not easy to do. Wildhack is no dummy. He has to begin understanding that to compete and be in bowl games every year you have to realize the need to get money and spend it. You wanna be like the Big Boys, be like them. Find the money to hold on to what you have and attract successful people. I’m sure he’s trying. Otherwise were going to continue to be a middle of the packer hoping to win 6 games every year. [I]Finally[/I], some work is being done to attract recruits with the updating of the football complex, the addition of a nutrition director and hopefully a small staff for the football team and a Defensive Coordinator who invented the 3-3-5. Rocky Long will be a game changer at SU. Dino tried to hire Long in 2019 – 2020, but Long signed onto New Mexico as DC/LB coach and got White, who worked under Babers as a grad assistant when Babers was Asst. Head Coach at UCLA. White also worked under Long at SDST as Cornerbacks Coach and added the title of Recruiting Coordinator when Long was promoted to HC. We just saw White build the Defensive Side of the program very well in two years. But, especially in football, if you do that, people notice and they offer you opportunities to go to another school for more money because of your success. [I]That’s a given in the sport.[/I] Great coaches without great salaries along with the combination of the transfer portal makes it tough for schools to hold onto coaching talent and players who aren’t seeing the field. Finally, the NCAA fixed it a bit by saying you have to sit a year if you transfer twice. Monroe leaving leaves a void in NJ and FL recruiting And, NJ has become a mine of talent in the Northeast that we’ve tapped into lately that we need to keep paying attention to in recruiting. We do not need to lose that connection, it has to be kept current. [/QUOTE]

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