I don't get it. Why doesn't fan support matter to recruits? Baylor is ranked #4 in the country. Okie State has an NBA point guard(Evans) with a new coach leading them to a 7-2 record. Yet both crowds are sparse tonight, and I mean sparse. Yet neither school has had trouble getting good recruits/talent to their programs. Just seems like it would be a factor for a 3 or 4star who was deciding after the top kids go to the blue bloods. While we promote it and boast our sellouts, I don't know that it really has ever been a factor in getting us a recruit. Too many other factor$, I suppose?
Fan support?
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Who says it doesn't?
The answer is, is doesn't matter to all of them...maybe not even the majority?
Let's not act like all kids are motivated by the same things. Some are 100% about the coach. Others the tradition. Some want to be in a warmer climate. Others might care about game-day atmosphere. There are probably a hundred different factors....and arena atmosphere is only one of them.
The answer is, is doesn't matter to all of them...maybe not even the majority?
Let's not act like all kids are motivated by the same things. Some are 100% about the coach. Others the tradition. Some want to be in a warmer climate. Others might care about game-day atmosphere. There are probably a hundred different factors....and arena atmosphere is only one of them.
If fan support and attendance were the be all and end all then we would have the best women's basketball program in the Big 12. But it isn't and we aren't. Same applies to MBB once you drop below the blue blood schools with their crazy support and tradition.
I think fan support matters to some kids but not others. I definitely don't think it matters at all to the ones that are thinking almost exclusively about college as a path to the NBA.
You ever steal lunch trays and go sledding down the hill by the Ice Arena/Disc Golf Course? Can't do that **** in Coral Gables.
When did the popular place to lunch tray sled move from the president's house hill to the DG course? Although I've done both.
Closer to home for recruits from Texas and the South. Warmer weather. Oh, and Whataburger of course.
We've heard from numerous recruits they like our environment. Once they are here it's almost always the same response.
I would venture a guess that the recruits who see college as the realistic pinnacle of their playing days will find atmosphere more important than a recruit who knows they will be in the NBA. At that point it's about skill development and the right coach.
I would venture a guess that the recruits who see college as the realistic pinnacle of their playing days will find atmosphere more important than a recruit who knows they will be in the NBA. At that point it's about skill development and the right coach.
You know what has a lot to do with it? Changing coaches every 5 years for more than 20 years. Success and longevity matters in recruiting. We have had some success. We haven't had longevity. There isn't a successful power 5 program (there slso really isn't an unsuccessful program) that has had the type of turnover we've had. People say it doesn't matter, but it does.
A school like Baylor has everything a young recruit could ask for. Money and the potential to commit crimes and not get in any trouble.
They were lunch tray sledding on that hill back in the 70's. We had a tractor inner tube that you could pile people onto. We used to pick up some serious speed going down that hill.
Bigger hill, and after the ice Storm of 07/08 that mother ****** was like sledding down Everest in an avalanche.
That answer is real easy....Its the COACH boys and girls....why was Johnny Orr a success at ISU and glen anderson ....Ken Trickey and Lynn Nance abject failures?????
Its the coach and with most recruits thats all it is.......Players who grew up in the south dont want to come up here for the winters if they can stay down south.......
