[stupac2]

My concern is that does the fact that we play and promote smash-mouth football diminish our eligibility pool?  The current metric (per Coach Shaw) is that we have a pool of ~80 players that we can recruit.  If we eliminate those players who are fast and like to play fast-forward-spread-offense-football, do we reduce our pool commensurately?  Or, do we increase it by therefore being more attractive to the less athletic, but bigger kind?

I think Shaw's comments about the player pool is more about grades. The number of 3+ star guys who can get admitted is small, he claims around 80. There are obviously more kids who can get admitted, but who might not be as talented.

I would guess that our style of football isn't a minus with most recruits. After all, the guys who are in the spread offenses may put up bigger numbers, but they're not NFL-ready mentally the same way someone who runs a west-coast offense and modern defense is.

[stupac2]

My concern is that does the fact that we play and promote smash-mouth football diminish our eligibility pool?  The current metric (per Coach Shaw) is that we have a pool of ~80 players that we can recruit.  If we eliminate those players who are fast and like to play fast-forward-spread-offense-football, do we reduce our pool commensurately?  Or, do we increase it by therefore being more attractive to the less athletic, but bigger kind?

I think Shaw's comments about the player pool is more about grades. The number of 3+ star guys who can get admitted is small, he claims around 80. There are obviously more kids who can get admitted, but who might not be as talented.

I would guess that our style of football isn't a minus with most recruits. After all, the guys who are in the spread offenses may put up bigger numbers, but they're not NFL-ready mentally the same way someone who runs a west-coast offense and modern defense is.