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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 3993002, member: 430"]
There isn't a clear solution, but there can be a clear strategy.  GRob was all over the place as far as target areas, relationship building, etc. Marrone's staff was VERY targeted, imo to their own detriment in recruiting.  Shafer tried to utilize the existing relationships of his staff as opposed to heavy focus on our traditional recruiting areas (Chicago/Midwest for example).  I think Babers has focused both on staff strengths (Hawaii for example, So Cal/SW with White/Schmidt) and traditional recruiting areas, along with blending in our ACC footprint as well.

I think Baber's staff strategy is the right one and imo they find a lot of undervalued talent with it.  But similar to GRob, there have been a few position groups they've historically struggled with at the HS level and it looks like now the answer to that is the Portal (OL, QB).  Those position groups are chicken or egg, and generally I think they're the two that tend to look most at past production of successful players in order to land blue chip prospects out of HS at those positions.  There's a reason why, for the most part, the blue chip OL every year go to the same 6-8 programs.
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