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Kids respond to rankings.  Whether they're athletes or not, they want to go somewhere that attracts what they think are the best of the best.  All they really have to go at this stage is rankings, accurate or inaccurate.  Current roster and results matter but the recruits are generally encouraged to think about the class they come in with.  Just read the tweets they send each other.  And you can see why schools might encourage them to think of themselves joining a recruiting class as much as they are a program.  It invites the kind of domino effect that we saw this weekend here and even more so at Pitt.

If we think about it as a competition, so far the defensive coaches are getting the better of the offensive ones.  Some of it may have to do with the better recruiters being on the defensive side.  But the domino effect matters too.  If Van Dyke or someone like him had committed by now, there would be more momentum.  That's not to say that recruiting momentum on offense won't come.  It would appear, though, that our peer schools are winning the offseason thus far.  The staff will hopefully turn things around during the season, which will turn some heads.  The problem is that the recruiting calendar has really accelerated.  Who will be left?  Poaching kids with commitments requires extra digging.  You also have to hope that the team they've committed to has a poor season or some scandal that might put doubts in that recruit's head.  We've seen the problem that late scrambles for key positions has created for the basketball program.
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