Quote Originally Posted by TheBeast View Post
It's not that they don't want to get kids from around here. I do believe that the odds of a player staying in school and on the team greatly increases with them being from a distance away and getting them away from their old friends. Think about it if the only friends they have around are their new teammates and they all have to do the same thing everyday as far as goin to practice and working around the same schedule then they aren't talkin to runnin around with their high school buddies that don't have to go to practice and such. They see their old buddies out running around having fun while they are workin their but off in practice, weightroom and classroom it is very easy for them to go be with their buddies instead of stickin with football. Playin ball in college is year round not just a few months from Aug-Oct/Nov and the guys at that level have been used to everyone including coaches gushing over them their whole lives and now they are just another kid and it's a hard pill for them to swallow. Same reason freshman that live on campus aren't allowed to have cars at a lot of schools, if they do it's to easy for them to pack up and leave whereas if they don't have it mom and dad are likely to make them stay and tough it out instead of coming to get them and after the first year they are exponentially more likely to stay/come back.
Good points. I guess we will never truly know what goes on behind those closed doors or phone calls. A recruiter could have given their all for some of our local talent and it just did not pan out. Selfishly though, I would love to have seen a lot of our areas past high school players together and kicking butt in a Cavalier uniform. If all the cards fell in place, they would have been some tough teams over the past years.