Its unconscionable the direction we have chosen to go with recruiting.
What pisses me off the most, and it has been mentioned, is that we are shunning kids that could benefit the most from the okg bullshit. Take a fucking chance on a kid and let him be a part of something positive for perhaps the first time in his fucking life. The local perception is a total disaster and based off the offers tendered in the last week it's not going to change.
What kids have been shunned that could benefit from BFL/OKG? Name them. As far as I can tell, there are like four local guys who (in the case of a few of them, inexplicably) haven't received offers. Who else?
Gee's dad, and the fact that the staff is hail-marying on McMillan and Wilson (better prospects), makes this one completely excusable. If I had to guess, they played him like any other Plan B (awesome, but try hitting the home run first) prospect, and Dad didn't take kindly to this, burning the bridge in the process.
Julian Simon I don't get, but I recognize I have no idea what the whole story is, and he's still a year from worrying about anyway.
DJ Rogers, sounds like there's off the field issues. Nobody will come right out and say what that's all about.
Sounds like the Latu brothers will probably be offered once their grades are trustworthy.
Seems like there's one other kid? Can't remember.
So what's the other grievance?
The offered Smalls when he was like 12. They offered JT when he was a zygote. They've offered pretty much every other local kid not listed above (I'm sure I forget one or two, but whatever). They've offered pretty much every four and five-star kid in the west.
Who exactly are they not giving a chance to be part of something positive? We're talking about DJ Rogers, Gee Scott, and Peter Latu. Those are the three guys in-state that they've passed up so far to offer kids from Texas or whatever (possibly as part of long term bridge-building goals).
I'm not trying to defend the recruiting effort completely, as some of the misses that have happened recently suck, but bashing the "direction [they] have chosen to go with recruiting" implies that it's not the effort/hit rate/marketing that's bad but rather the overall direction (read: "offers"). But they're offering all the kids (save three or four locals that you'd want them to, out of a 90 kid class) that you'd want them to, so what would you have them do differently on that front? They're TRYING to give kids a chance at that sweet sweet OKG bullshit, it's just that, this spring for various reasons, said kids aren't going for it. That's a totally different problem from the one you're upset about.
