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[QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 78165, member: 686"]
That's all well and good, but how do you go about getting an elite recruit starting from where we were in 2007, or where we are right now. You have to show something to get them interested, whether that is money (a la MSU and Cam Newton), tangible improvement on the field, top notch facilities or an innovative offensive or defensive style of play.  You might get lucky and pluck a top-rated recruit, like Tim Green, but that happens once in 20 years where you can get a guy like that and he actually pans out. I'd rather not rely on luck to make it happen.

Back to my list, I don't want to offer guys money to play, we aren't implementing an innovative style anytime soon, and facilities cost a lot of money. We are working on it, but short of a T. Boone Pickens or Nike taking us under their wing, we are going to struggle in this area. That leaves tangible improvement on the field and that is where developing a pipeline of what I called diamond in the rough athletes that can be coached up to play a high quality of football in their Jr and Sr seasons and win 8 or 9 games to get the interest of local fans and higher level recruits.
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