Careful catfan5. While appreciate the support, I am 100% F’ing Pro Fitz! No ifs, ands, bits or questions about it. I am thrilled with our success on the field and off, and if someone was to tell me the results of the last three years are guaranteed for the next 20, even WITHOUT a Big Ten Championship, I’m still thrilled.
What I am concerned about, and the reason I’ve started this whole thing, is I want to see us winning more head to head recruiting battles against the programs we want to emulate/surpass. Consistently losing to Stanford and Notre Dame and other Big Ten schools over and over again.....I just don’t know how success can be sustained in the BT with diamonds in the rough, projects, and these other schools plan B kids they don’t offer until late in the process, when they have already accepted an NU offer. And as our success has increased, and our facilities as well, I am disappointed to see our recruiting staying largely the same in terms of the schools we are and are not beating out for kids. In my opinion, while all recruiting is an ‘inexact’ science, the positive return rate in competing at the top of P5 level, is far lower when you are trying to outsmart everyone and build a team with kids fewer of those top P5 schools wanted.
What I am concerned about, and the reason I’ve started this whole thing, is I want to see us winning more head to head recruiting battles against the programs we want to emulate/surpass. Consistently losing to Stanford and Notre Dame and other Big Ten schools over and over again.....I just don’t know how success can be sustained in the BT with diamonds in the rough, projects, and these other schools plan B kids they don’t offer until late in the process, when they have already accepted an NU offer. And as our success has increased, and our facilities as well, I am disappointed to see our recruiting staying largely the same in terms of the schools we are and are not beating out for kids. In my opinion, while all recruiting is an ‘inexact’ science, the positive return rate in competing at the top of P5 level, is far lower when you are trying to outsmart everyone and build a team with kids fewer of those top P5 schools wanted.