JUCO Offer
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It's called "Recruiting at a level where the players have never been seen before"
He is an ESPN top 50 JUCU and from shopping around, might have had interest from Boise St., SDSU, Utah St and Temple. I am not saying he will have a big impact or not but SDSU and BSU are top 25-35 programs.
He's ranked in the ESPN's top 50 JUCO's ...so, he does exist. Also in there is Darius Johnson 6-3 290 dt from Gonzaga currently playing for Garden City CC. It's pretty obvious they need to take full advantage of the new rule and take several transfers.
If Im a first year HC I take the 7 transfers the NCAA allows and 25 HS kids. You have to balance the roster now but also not hamstring yourself down the road.
At this point we need bodies and like you said, some bodies that won't hamstring us for 4 years. No need to offer a fringe HS player who might clog up the roster when you can plug in a 2 year guy while you get your feet under you in recruiting.
No. You cant just take bodies. You need talent. Otherwise you wind up with too many classes in a row that have kids that can’t play. Eventually it will catch up to you. Have you seen WSU with a roster of 70 scholarship kids out of 85? It won’t be pretty.
I go back and forth on transfer talent. On one hand you can’t ignore it. If there is a kid that can help you right now, you take him. On the other hand, the volume of transfers WSU has taken versus how many have proven to be good players ~ seems small to me.
If pressed for a decision, take the full 25 HS kids. Now that the NCAA allows 7 transfers in addition to the 25, take both.
If you’re a coach that just signed a 5 year contract, you want as many 4 & 5 year kids in your program as possible heading into your contract year. You don’t wanna be in year 4 having a young team cause you spent 3 years playing transfers. At some point you have to develop HS kids.
Yeah, you have to fill all your slots every year. Use the transfer portal to address immediate needs, but you build depth and fill the roster with HS kids. Transfers shouldn’t be developmental, they should be guys that will be on the 2-deep from day 1.
Problem I see with the transfers is that there’s less certainty from year to year that there’s an available contributor at a position you need. So I’d be more willing to take 5 transfers and give the 2 scholarships to kids already on the roster. I think there’s more value in that than there is in taking 2 kids I don’t need and who only have 2 to play.
If you take a transfer that isn’t a two deep player he needs to be transferring again at the end of semester. You cannot have kids taking up slots that aren’t moving up the depth chart. Especially if they’re transfers.
If it were my staff at WSU… we would be recruiting every 4 and 5 star kid on the West Coast. Odds are they aren’t all gonna see the field. When they hit the portal you want to have already met them, not trying to build a relationship then.
