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Message: [QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 786176, member: 3201"] Look at it this way...you guys identified a kid that can play major BCS ball, and recognized it before PSU/Wisc did, and were first in. That's ONLY positive. There's nothing you can do about that, relative the state of the programs and your location, but tip your cap. It's life where you are right now. But it's still the right thing to do. First offers matter, they really do. Not to every kid, and every kid's circumstances are different. I'd be more worried if your commitments/prospects WEREN'T getting offers from some big time programs. You'll see...some will stick because that first offer is special to them, even if most don't. What are you going to do, not offer the kid? Not accept his commitment? You have to, that's the way it works. A few will stick along the way. If you took the path that you would only offer kids for whom SU is their best offer, that's a recipe for disaster. You need to have tons of offers out there, and have them out early. You need to take a full class ++ every year, and get them committed as early as you can. Read about Addazio's recruiting...it sounds ridiculous, but he absolutely gets it. You have a HUGE disadvantage of being in what I would guess might be the worst per-capita area in the country for big time college football prospects. You simply cannot win with local kids. Stars matter, recruiting matters. You've got a hill to climb and you need to be incredibly aggressive. I'd argue that it might be worth focusing a little more in the South now that you're in the ACC, where it's more likely to find a really solid player that slips under the radar of the major programs, simply due to the volume of great athletes. But on the flip side, everyone in the country is there looking for the same kids, so even if you find a kid that slips under FSU and UF's radar, you still have to battle Wake Forest, Illinois, Iowa State and everyone else trying to do the same thing. But as much as I see you questioning your coaches game planning, I'd be focusing more on recruiting right now. You can be bad with really good recruiting, but it doesn't work the other way. It's virtually impossible to be good with poor recruiting. There's maybe 2-3 staffs in the country that have been able to do that, and even then its usually unsustainable. [/QUOTE]

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