2013 PG Kendal Harris unofficial visit Sept. 3

[garyeb2]

And yet somehow your premise that freshmen and sophomores won't improve year to year is a valid premise?

Did I say that? No, I didn't. My premise is that the bigest jump in improvement for a college player comes between the freshman and soph. year. After that it is incremental.

My second premise is that recruiting to a bad team is different from recruiting to a good team. For bad team recruiting, every recruit should be veiwed as a way to make the current team better. For good team recruiting, shaping,molding,laying ground work, and roster balancing is fine.

From all accounts, Kruger has three really good assistants. They make $200,000 per year. Giving that group 6 months to do it. And tasking them with scouring the nation and coming up with 3 guys that are better than any of that bunch from last year should be pretty simple. Remember, they lost to Chamanade. Got carried to overtime at home by by Eastern Popcorn State or someone. And among the other losses were 15 by double digits.

Coming in late and snagging Grooms,Arent, and M'buy was probably the best they could have hoped to do. And I sure hope those guys work out to some degree. But, our staff is a group of well paid pro's. And for at least this year they will be recruiting to a team that is probably not good enough. Whoever they sign, whether it be a freshman or JC, will need to be an imediate impact player.

 

[realdallassooner]

Harris HS coach is an Oklahoma native, coached at UCO at one time. His name is Rod Wright; not to say that will help his recruitment, he might not even be a Sooner fan, but at least he's an Oklahoma guy.

 

[campbest]

Did I say that? No, I didn't. My premise is that the bigest jump in improvement for a college player comes between the freshman and soph. year. After that it is incremental.

Very true. I will add the biggest jump in improvement is between the end of the freshman season and about the middle of conference play sophomore year. At that point, you generally have a good idea about what type of player the individual is and can develop into.

My second premise is that recruiting to a bad team is different from recruiting to a good team. For bad team recruiting, every recruit should be veiwed as a way to make the current team better. For good team recruiting, shaping,molding,laying ground work, and roster balancing is fine.

This sounds great in theory, but when you put all the emphasis on your first statement, how do you break the cycle when turnover in a two year span is up to 12 players (as it very well could be)? You have to have a foundation, it is paramount in the college game for sustained success.

From all accounts, Kruger has three really good assistants. They make $200,000 per year. Giving that group 6 months to do it. And tasking them with scouring the nation and coming up with 3 guys that are better than any of that bunch from last year should be pretty simple. Remember, they lost to Chamanade. Got carried to overtime at home by by Eastern Popcorn State or someone. And among the other losses were 15 by double digits.

Yeah, but aren't they recruiting for a bad team, like you said? Furthermore, you are completely neglecting the fact that our recruiters are on the road trying to convince kids to join a roster that currently has 10 Junior and Seniors...immediate playing time will be hard to come by, even for a JUCO player. Not many elite impact players are chomping at the bit to join a program with that many upperclassmen AND depressed program.

Coming in late and snagging Grooms,Arent, and M'buy was probably the best they could have hoped to do. And I sure hope those guys work out to some degree. But, our staff is a group of well paid pro's. And for at least this year they will be recruiting to a team that is probably not good enough. Whoever they sign, whether it be a freshman or JC, will need to be an imediate impact player.

Let's wait until Osby gets on the floor with the other eligible newcomers before forming an opinion on which way to go. The staff has a relatively good idea, but from a fan's perspective, we don't know crap right now. Throwing two JUCOs and a transfer (who everyone seems high on) is a huge unknown variable.