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Message: [QUOTE="oldpinepoint, post: 901634, member: 320"] "Obviously they have to hang on to Blacknall and I don't know if they will," national analyst Mike Farrell said. "Penn State is very tempting. James Franklin is a terrific recruiter and that's close to home just like Rutgers so if they hold on to him that will be important. If they don't, they will have lost every four-star recruit they had, and that's just disappointing to the point of embarrassing. This isn't a horrible class, but it could have been so much better. That's the disappointing aspect of it. ... "Rutgers has made its own bed," Farrell said. "This whole recruiting thing where Flood said, 'If you visit you are out and not committed anymore,' but then when Hilliman did it he was still committed and then Blacknall visited Penn State last week, so why isn't he dropped? They've made so many mistakes in recruiting this year ? and it's led to guys like (Adonis) Jennings and Hilliman and (Kiy) Hester leaving ? that they can't get out of their own way." ... "He has one season to really make a splash there. A vote of confidence means you've got one more year to figure this stuff out or you're gone. Period," Farrell said. "If they have a disappointing year in the Big Ten and start off horribly, everybody is going to say they could only be fairly good in the Big East or the AAC. They're not ready for primetime. That's going to be used against them and recruiting will suffer and the state of New Jersey will be wide open." He continued, "There will be damages at that point. You have two bad recruiting years in a row and it can set your program back five years easily. You just are not as big, strong, and fast as everybody who did have good recruiting years and you really struggle." [url]http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/rutgers/2014/01/22/manalpans-saeed-blacknall-could-hold-the-keys-to-rutgers-football-recruiting-evaluations[/url] [/QUOTE]

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