May be the best evidence our football coaches recruit hard....

[Yellow Fin Fan]

In the past 5 years, S.C. has spent $25K per win in recruiting costs while Clemson has spent $53K per win. When you consider strength of schedule, this figure is even more impressive.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/2015/01/30/clemson-among-top-recruiting-spenders-usc-much/22603511/

 

[NaturalGC7]

Does this include cash payouts and lake front living accommodations to recruits by KKKlempson

 

[Bigger_Stronger_Faster]

I like how the headline sounds as if it is praising CU, but the meat of the article tells another story. We have definitely gotten more bang for our buck.
I believe the biggest
difference in our recruiting budget and the rest of the SEC or CU is our
smaller recruiting base. Though I'd like to see our staff branch out and recruit other areas, if Spurrier feels like they can find the players he needs in the areas we normally recruit I can live with it...as long as we're winning.

 

[67gamecock]

Originally posted by Bigger_Stronger_Faster:
I like how the headline sounds as if it is praising CU, but the meat of the article tells another story. We have definitely gotten more bang for our buck.
I believe the biggest
difference in our recruiting budget and the rest of the SEC or CU is our
smaller recruiting base. Though I'd like to see our staff branch out and recruit other areas, if Spurrier feels like they can find the players he needs in the areas we normally recruit I can live with it...as long as we're winning.

I agree. ' . . . as long as we're winning'.

I don't care if they ALL come from within a 300 mile distance of Columbia. When that fails, however, throw the net farther out and spend whatever is necessary to get it done, honestly . . . of course.

 

[racetrac]

would just love to know how much they give to potential recruits?

 

[ReadR00ster]

Originally posted by Bigger_Stronger_Faster:
I like how the headline sounds as if it is praising CU, but the meat of the article tells another story. We have definitely gotten more bang for our buck.
I believe the biggest
difference in our recruiting budget and the rest of the SEC or CU is our
smaller recruiting base. Though I'd like to see our staff branch out and recruit other areas, if Spurrier feels like they can find the players he needs in the areas we normally recruit I can live with it...as long as we're winning.

 

[ReadR00ster]

I don't think anyone has said our coaching staff doesn't recruit hard. Just Spurrier. He's admitted how much he leans on his staff, but the guys on the staff are relative nobodies compared to him. The recruiting budget is not what is keeping us from recruiting better. It's that fact that we recruit kids than ignore them for a long a time and let others swoop in. I think our staff does a great job on scouting and recruiting guys early when they don't have too many offers, but they don't concentrate enough on the current recruiting class and keeping those guys committed. That's got to change.

This post was edited on 1/31 3:36 PM by ReadR00ster

 

[Bleedgandb3334]

All this means to me is we should be spending more. Traveling more. Scouting more. Recruiting players even harder. We should spare no expense. Making fancy posters with all the draft picks we've had recently. Hi lighting the fact that we had the number one overall pick in the draft. We should be doing more. Everything in our power to get the #1 class! Just my opinion. I'm pleased with the class, but we could still do better.

 

[bUSCh_heavy]

^^This^^

 

[Cocky kebo57]

Originally posted by Bleedgandb3334:
All this means to me is we should be spending more. Traveling more. Scouting more. Recruiting players even harder. We should spare no expense. Making fancy posters with all the draft picks we've had recently. Hi lighting the fact that we had the number one overall pick in the draft. We should be doing more. Everything in our power to get the #1 class! Just my opinion. I'm pleased with the class, but we could still do better.

Exactly! I've read that we have the lowest recruiting budget in the SEC, but if we can do as well as we have in the past, then we need to increase the budget and recruit that much harder to keep up with the joneses. It's simple, recruiting is the most important part of fielding a competitive team.

 

[Yellow Fin Fan]

The way I see this is there is no correlation between money spent and quality of recruits. Why should we spend more. I suppose we could spend 2x and get one less win like Clemson did?

 

[ReadR00ster]

Originally posted by Yellow Fin Fan:
The way I see this is there is no correlation between money spent and quality of recruits. Why should we spend more. I suppose we could spend 2x and get one less win like Clemson did?

Clemson is not the only team spending more than us. But I don't think we should paying more if our coaches are not willing to use that money in their recruiting plan. Besides we need that money to hire new coaches while we continue to also pay the ones that we should fire but won't.

 

[jerryusc]

Originally posted by Bleedgandb3334:
All this means to me is we should be spending more. Traveling more. Scouting more. Recruiting players even harder. We should spare no expense. Making fancy posters with all the draft picks we've had recently. Hi lighting the fact that we had the number one overall pick in the draft. We should be doing more. Everything in our power to get the #1 class! Just my opinion. I'm pleased with the class, but we could still do better.

We used to use the excuse that USC wasn't winning enough so that hurt recruiting but three straight 11 win seasons proved that to be false. The coaches IMO got lazy and did not build off those years. We should have had recruiting rankings in the top 5 after those seasons. Last season was a good indicator of that and we have a HC who was bragging about how little he worked while cashing checks for over $300,000 per month. The HC's attitude is a mirror of the entire staff's attitude.
I'm afraid that USC needs to look at Tenn and get and idea of how things should be done. We need a recruiter boss who takes his job seriously and will kick butt. I just don't see the fire, drive and want to from the FB coaches especially on the defensive side. I do see it in the MBB coaches. I wish we could clone FM and have at least 5 of him on the FB staff.

 

[FORKCOCK]

We're getting smoked on the recruiting trail this year.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

 

[Yellow Fin Fan]

Originally posted by FORKCOCK:
We're getting smoked on the recruiting trail this year.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

Mostly on the offensive side, I agree.

 

[b.wun]

IMO it is useful to have a larger recruiting dept to get things lined up for coaches. There are only so many hours in a day/week. I believe Brad Scott has helped Clemson in Florida even though he doesn't directly recruit.