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[QUOTE="KevMonstah, post: 116750, member: 327"]
Where Marrone needs to get the program to is the point where they don't have to get as many early commitments as they can, and can save room for guys who get interested later.  I'm not certain he's at that point yet.  I get the need to restock, and since the program isn't viewed as a top-40 school yet, they need to identify the lower profile guys who can develop into good players, and get them signed.  But what that potentially ends up doing is filling the class with 2-3 star guys, and not leaving room for more highly rated players should the team begin to draw interest from them, as it seems to have done for the first half of the season.  At that point, they need to tell guys there's no room.  For example, the LB recruits seem to be full at this point, and they've had to turn away a few guys, according to other sites.  I would like them to be at a point that yes, they have a great set of guys committed early, but they have room for someone like a Deaysean Rippy, should he be interested.  (Note:  I've no idea who they are attempting to finish with now, just he was on the wish list, seemed to get interested, then seemed to lose interest.)  Yes, Josh Manley is interested, is he better than who they have, maybe, but I hope they have space for guys like him.  Of course, it would help that once recruits start getting interested, the team would continue winning, to keep that interest.  This year, they filled up on guys, started winning, got more recruits interested, seemed to have to push some away, but then they started losing and likely lost the recruits anyways, ie Kenneth Goins.

Kev
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