MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:lobstalova {l Wrote}:Boston College 8 {l Wrote}:jbrooks58 {l Wrote}:Are you guys really this ignorant? How can you expect a coach who has been recruiting a guy for a few months to beat out schools who have been on him for years?
this.
agreed.
This is a ridiculous persecution of a guy who has been here for 6 months. And the worst part about it is that for the next two years every time we lose a game or lose out on a recruit it's gonna be "I told you so" but they won't say jack if we win.
I might agree with you guys if there was a reason to give a shit about BC hoop.
For the record, Militant's attempt to compare JC to Daz is weak. By this point in Daz's cycle he had already landed Outlow and Strachan.
There is less competition for recruits in football. 120 Div 1 football programs (about 60 in pwer 5) vs. over 300 in Div 1 basketball. Also, while fan support for BC football isn't great, basketball is a complete disaster. It is the third sport on campus. BC football is simply an easier sell than BC basketball. That being said, Christian has already landed Diallo, Turner (offers from Stanford, Iowa St. and Arizona St.) and Milon (offers from FSU and Standford).
BC football is an easier sell because its simply a better program. There's 1/3 less teams in football, but there are 8 times the roster spots to fill. 330 D1 hoop programs x 3 annual recruits is 990 scholarship athletes. 120 D1 football programs x 21 annual players is 2520 scholarship athletes.
And there are a lot more kids playing football in high school due to the number of positions that need to be filled in the sport of football.
To look at this competition another way, there are only 120 Div 1 starting QB spots. There are over 300 Div 1 starting point guard spots.
There are only 5 positions to recruit in hoop. It's much easier to get better faster in hoop, it is just harder to recover if you mess up,
Agree to disagree.
In football, Florida State and Alabama and Texas A&M take 25-30 kids every year that BC wishes they could get. In basketball, UNC, Duke, Cuse, take 2-4. I understand that there are more positions (although even this is a stretch - there are basically OL, QB, WR, TE/DE, LB, DB, DT and even some of those overlap) but the sheer volume of top kids that are off the table in football before BC generally gets to pick is huge, despite less programs.
"We remind everyone that Boston College fired a perfectly good coach because he went on a job interview, and deserves all of this." Spencer Hall