[Langdude]

This does strike me as a culmination of years of unforced errors. Like SMF, I have been utterly befuddled at our recruiting pipelines, or lack thereof. We should always be at 84 or 85 scholarships, without needing to give one or three to walk-ons to make it seem like we have a fuller boat than we do. We should always be recruiting for all positions every year, especially the lines. We've seen in past years what happens when you don't recruit safeties or quarterbacks and defensive linemen, and now we're seeing it at RB and ILB. And coaches/recruiters should always have a personnel chart so that they can see years in advance where they need to be focusing.

We are simply too thin, and our margin for error on recruits is too narrow, for us to not get as many personnel options as we can. We seem to do this pretty well with PWOs, getting multiple guys who can contribute. We should do it more with, you know, actual recruits.

I guess that the team finally got the memo and recruited safeties ... so we use one of them to play RB (and moved another two years ago to ILB). (It is pretty crazy that a D-I starting running back was a safety like two weeks ago.)

-m.

[Langdude]

This does strike me as a culmination of years of unforced errors. Like SMF, I have been utterly befuddled at our recruiting pipelines, or lack thereof. We should always be at 84 or 85 scholarships, without needing to give one or three to walk-ons to make it seem like we have a fuller boat than we do. We should always be recruiting for all positions every year, especially the lines. We've seen in past years what happens when you don't recruit safeties or quarterbacks and defensive linemen, and now we're seeing it at RB and ILB. And coaches/recruiters should always have a personnel chart so that they can see years in advance where they need to be focusing.

We are simply too thin, and our margin for error on recruits is too narrow, for us to not get as many personnel options as we can. We seem to do this pretty well with PWOs, getting multiple guys who can contribute. We should do it more with, you know, actual recruits.

I guess that the team finally got the memo and recruited safeties ... so we use one of them to play RB (and moved another two years ago to ILB). (It is pretty crazy that a D-I starting running back was a safety like two weeks ago.)

-m.