I'm sure the board experts can help with this one. Off the top, I'll posit that the answer to my question is convenience of travel and relationships with high school coaches. And that there's plenty of collaboration between our coaches that everyday people like us don't see. But food for thought as we enter the offseason.
Why don't position coaches recruit for their position groups? Instead, coaches recruit geographic territories.
Shouldn't position coaches have the best insight into what will make a good player for their schemes, styles, preferences, etc.?
Wouldn't position coaches be able to develop more meaningful relationships with recruits, seeing as they're going to be the primary coach-player relationship for 4-5 years? (Especially at a program like ours, where we see so little turnover in the staff?) Like, whoever recruits Texas is looking at players at many positions, even though that coach won't actually be coaching most of the players that we pull from there.
I'm pretty sure I've read we don't offer a QB until McCall sees that QB throw. I'm not sure whether it's live in game settings, or on film, or in camp. But that seems to be more along the lines of what I'm talking about. QB recruiting is a different beast because we're generally taking one guy a year from a very limited pool of offers. But as coaching and GA/recruiting assistant staffs grow, doesn't that setup start to make more and more sense across the whole roster?
Why don't position coaches recruit for their position groups? Instead, coaches recruit geographic territories.
Shouldn't position coaches have the best insight into what will make a good player for their schemes, styles, preferences, etc.?
Wouldn't position coaches be able to develop more meaningful relationships with recruits, seeing as they're going to be the primary coach-player relationship for 4-5 years? (Especially at a program like ours, where we see so little turnover in the staff?) Like, whoever recruits Texas is looking at players at many positions, even though that coach won't actually be coaching most of the players that we pull from there.
I'm pretty sure I've read we don't offer a QB until McCall sees that QB throw. I'm not sure whether it's live in game settings, or on film, or in camp. But that seems to be more along the lines of what I'm talking about. QB recruiting is a different beast because we're generally taking one guy a year from a very limited pool of offers. But as coaching and GA/recruiting assistant staffs grow, doesn't that setup start to make more and more sense across the whole roster?