by gtmoBlue » Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:09 pm
Trifecta wrote:Savannah Jay wrote:So...we offered some guys we really liked but they chose to commit elsewhere. That's neither awesome nor the end of the world. Did I miss anything?
Go Jays!
Depending on which narrative in this thread you favor, you could also say we offered and lost kids that weren't priorities. Not commentary just observation...
The 3 2021 local/regional guys are/were priority recruits. Everything the staff has done to date shows they are priority recruits. Mors and Hepburn are friends and it was inferred by posts and texts that Chucky wanted to play on the same team with Mors. Wisconsin was Mors' "dream school", the 2 guys visited Wisconsin together, then commited to the Badgers. Sallis still is a priority recruit. You win some, lose more in recruiting.
The only time where it seemed that we slow rolled was in the case of Matt Nicholson/Kiyron Powell - both 2020 F/C. We never rescheduled Powell's missed visit (weather) and there was no further mention of Nicholson after his official visit. I and others guessed that the staff was going "all-in" on Ryan Kalkbrenner.
Recruiting is more misses than hits...This staff does a good job in evaluating and offers and prays for commits just like we do.
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