Ute FB Recruiting

I gave Pace one of the thumbs up, and felt VERY dirty doing so – because even though I generally disagree with all of his posts, he is clearly right here.  

I don’t like much that Pace posts – but our recruiting classes could and definitely should be better (especially this year).

We have won back to back PAC-12 south tiitles, and will end up in the bottom half of the league in every recruiting measure.  

Everyone can dismiss this as “stars don’t mean anything”, “we develop talent rather than recruit it”, “we live in SLC, so we’re happy to get anyone we can get”, etc, etc, etc.  But the reaility is that every other progam in the south would get more recruiting benefit from 2 PAC-12 south titles in a row that we will get.

Now, off to the shower…..

It’s an anomoly in the process, it would make more sense to add the returned missionaries to the class they come back to, rather than when they sign (because they don’t really sign and may end up elsewhere when they come back). I do understand why they do it the way they do and don’t add transfers, because they are a year or more removed from when they were evaluated.

Moeai, Togiai, and Tanuvasa are the only 3 guys that we are targeting that are mission bound.  Every year will be different as far as when missions end or if a player stays 1 year and then leaves.  I’m not making excuses for the class(I think this class will be great), I’m giving context to an imperfect formula.

Because he’s set it up that he expects a massive recruiting failure, and if it’s a success then it’s some kind weird happen stance.