You're insiders can't touch BT, Sam, and Big Hinzzo.
The quality of the insiders on any given team's board(s) is, IMO, a reflection of what the coach intends to get out there.
I know very little about the insiders here or how Capel runs his program (although I will admit, it's a very nice site... the only non-Mizzou college sports site I ever visit), but I don't doubt for a second that he's very aware of this place and has a pretty good handle on what information gets out and when. The fact that there are "good" insiders here, to me, just means Capel wants Sooner fans talking.
To me, it makes a ton of sense for a coach to "leak" information in a way that it gets out to the fans. However, Mike Anderson doesn't operate that way.... thus, the MU insiders are pretty darn weak (the few "insiders" we have, IMO, don't have a clue what they're talking about). For example, Anderson has been recruiting Pressey for the better part of three years. But early this spring, a lot of the information out there was about Baylor, LSU, Arizona, UConn, OU, etc. Almost no mention of Mizzou. But Anderson had Pressey in for an unofficial visit in the spring completely under the radar. No one knew about it until well after the fact. And now Pressey's a Tiger.
Another example: right now MU has two open scholarships. None of our "insiders" seem to have a clue what Anderson intends to do with them. Now that Scott and Cobbins are off the board, no one even knows if Anderson intends to take a guard and a big, two bigs, or just use one scholarship. And whatever he does plan on doing, the only name we really have right now is Ricardo Ratliffe (apparently our top target right now, and possibly was higher on our list than Cobbins).
Anderson's made a habit over his three+ years at Mizzou of pulling recruits out of nowhere. Two years ago, Mizzou was recruiting Suggs and Releford. Both chose elsewhere, and almost immediately after that we find out we've been recruiting Kim English for some time. No one even knew who Kim English was (he wasn't even in the databases at rivals or scout), but as it turns out he was being recruited just as heavily as the other two (and so far he looks to be better than both).
Anderson and Capel seem to have very different philosophies when it comes to recruiting and team building, and the quality of "inside information" available for either team is, in my opinion, a reflection of that.
Or maybe not. Just a random observation I had, perhaps not necessarily a valid one (but I think it is).
