I've noticed that too. It was the same way last year, and seems even worse this year. It seems P likes to do a month or two of film review and ranking of all players nationally, arranging targets, and then issuing offers in April and more offers again after June camps. This loses some of the enthusiasm for the players of thinking, "they're on me first, they really love me, I'm their top priority, the coaches are excited about me, they will be the most likely to stay committed to me after I'm on campus."
yup the staff doesn't seem to like looking at the situation thru recruts eyes. kids like offers early and face to face early. they buy into that becuase then they egt there summer and fall to focus on sr years fball and just keep in touch with the school they committed to.
does anyone here enjoy scrmabling every year on NSD for multiple surprises? i would love to be all but done in december with maybe 1 or 2 slots of kids being waited on.
i understand camp is playing in front of your eyes blah blah, but if u can't tell a kid is a great recruit from tape, then why are u focused on him for jr day anyway. u bring studs in, offer them. get talk flowing and see what happens when they have offers in hand and not begging for one. the convo changes a lot. its like going for a interview for work. they grill u qith questions. here do u see yourself in 5 years, how hard do u work etc. then u do a nice job and they offer u salary and benefits w/e. then the convo becomes what about xyz. its the same with recruiting. once kids get the offer they want to know about future plans for the program more in depth. whats the fr year dorm, what hours is this building open and so on. have to take those oh so valuebale face to face minutes and use them for 2nd level recruiting not 1st level stuff. any kid can take a unofficial visit to uconn football and talk with the coaches for 5 minutes. how many kids cna u egt there for 5 hours that u cna offer becuas eu saw the good tape and then work on them with a offer in hand? no many, and jr day is supose to be that golden goose.
the best recruiters think from the players side as well as the programs side to combine the best for a good situation. kid travels form nj or pa, u bet they are hoping for a offer. when they dont get it, not matter how good the day was and nice the campus was and the staff got them to summer camp on the list etc, at the end of the day hes driving home a couple hours syaing wish i got a offer. then on top of that he then goes to 3 other jr days and some or all of them offer ships. now we look bad or the dad of the player is thinking that old guy at uconn moves slower than most other coaches. i love his resume but moving slow is a telling sign.
45 offers is not accpetable right now. we needed to offer most kids at jr day if they were of talent and we need to get on the ne/nyc train quick. some things fell in place last year for our good year in the footprint. things aren't going to be handed to us again.
