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Mel Tucker the recruiter
- Thread starter Big Jim
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That's encouraging.
What I am going to be watching intently is how he manages his staff and how much recruiting results are going to drive job retention with assistants.
DrunkPanda
Well-Known Member
I think theres no doubt he can identify top tier talent. The question is can he recruit it to a less popular school? Its easy to recruit to a school like ohio state or georgia. The question is was he recruiting that talent because of him or because of the school he was with. Georgia didnt have any recruiting drop off when he left
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
Kirby Smart is one of the best coaches in the sport-and I'd argue he's a better recruiter right now than Saban is because he relates to high school kids better than Saban (and seems like he enjoys it more right now) does. Georgia is going to be a playoff contender every year as long as he's there. Tucker understood from the get-go where he needs to invest his resources-keeping Chev and hiring Alfred Pupunu (especially given how good Utah and Washington in particular are up front) are the two prime examples of this IMO. Can he build this thing up right away with the talent that's in place? Getting to even a 3rd tier bowl would be huge for this team this season.
UGA and OSU don’t just drop any slapdick into a coaching slot and said slapdick becomes a good recruiter. UGA and OSU hire off of the top shelf. Tucker is top shelf.
Pay attention to the recruiting infrastructure that Coach Tucker has built at CU. He was great in the past because of his relentlessness, personality, and the recruiting infrastructure at those schools. He has already built a recruiting machine of the likes CU has never experienced and he knows how to drive that machine.
You get a like for the correct use of "slapdick."
I mean, "never experienced" is a comment that needs explanation given Coach Mac's success.
Back end recruiting team.
Nothing tight about it.
I definitely think the type of institutionally generated organizational commitment beyond the coaching staff that’s needed today in recruiting wasn’t prevalent in the 80s/90s. There were certainly extras and bagmen around, but you didn’t have a FT team of staffers who supplemented actual film and relationship based recruiting.
This statement should be cut and pasted anytime an allbuffs slapdick tries to rely on the various versions of "it's too hard to recruit to CU."
BlackNGold
Club Member
I have no doubt that Tucker can recruit. Can he build a staff of recruiters is another question. CU has to get stronger recruiting in California.. In the long haul we are not going to make a living recruiting in the SE.