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albsooner said...
From a business perspective, Mack is right on the money (no pun intended). I won't let my disdain for Texas get in the way of the essesnce of the article. There are costs and opportunity costs w/ recruiting a player. For ex., Norvell was clearly upset based on some of his quotes re: DGB and Nelson. If he could have that time and money back, who else could have OU got a commitment from as a result?
I am sure Mack isn't the only business savvy head football coach out there, but I love his thinking on this topic. As a Strategic Business Unit Manager for Xerox, I am faced with these decisions every single day. They are not easy decisions and I applaud Mack for de-briefing after the cycle and looking for ways to continually improve his strategies, tactics, and processes. It is all about "Continuous Improvement"!!!
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kwest2 said...
Saw this article on ESPN about how Texas lost out on DGB and Mack asked his coaches if "it was worth it" to come in second for a recruit instead of last. I love that this is how Mack thinks - it's so defeatist. Stoops would rather outwork the competition even if you miss more often than not.
http://insider.espn.go.com/colleges/texas/football/recruiting/story/_/id/7547829/texas-longhorns-rethinking-how-spend-recruiting-money-energy
Money, energy well-spent? Texas lost on two big-name recruits and is wondering if it was worth it
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Strickland By Carter Strickland HornsNation Archive
AUSTIN, Texas -- Even before all the letters of intent and scholarship papers were signed, Mack Brown and his staff started to crunch the numbers. [+] EnlargeDorial Green-Beckham Denny Medley/US PresswireTexas missed on signing Dorial Green-Beckham which has Mack Brown rethinking his approach to pursuing prospects Texas can't land.
Not the numbers you would think -- 28 new players fitting onto a roster and two-deep already loaded with underclassmen.
But instead the financial numbers were the ones giving Brown some concern. Yep, even Texas, the wealthiest athletic department in the country, has to worry about budgets.
"I met with the coaches (Wednesday morning) and said, 'Look back at how much money you spent. Go back and look at how much time you wasted. Go back and look at if you should have taken someone else,' " Brown said.
The Texas head coach told his coaches: "Go back, and if you are second on somebody, you would rather be last than second. Second costs you time, energy, money and somebody else. Let's see if for [UT Athletics Director] DeLoss [Dodds] and our department, did we spend our money right? Did we not waste our time? Did we not waste our energy, and how will that help us do a better job next year?"
That's because next year already has begun. And Texas, which has had its share of recruiting failures in the past, is trying to become a smarter, more efficient and successful program when it comes to who, where and why they spend their recruiting money and energy. To that end, 2012's out-of-state successes and failures are being dissected by the coaches.
In the case of defensive end Torshiro Davis (Shreveport, La./Woodlawn), the relationship and bond that was formed between defensive line coach Bo Davis and the player is being examined. Why did it work? What did Bo Davis do to make a connection?
The player told HornsNation: "The people in Texas, the love and how they care about their players, I felt like it was better at Texas than at LSU."
Texas has to do a better job of conveying that feeling to all potential recruits. Because that was not the case in two instances where Texas' reach exceeded its grasp in 2012. Wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham (Springfield, Mo./Hillcrest) and defensive end Mario Edwards (Denton, Texas/Ryan) both spurned the Longhorns for Missouri and Florida State, respectively.
"If you recruit one and come in second, then I don't think it helps you," Brown said. "It took your time and energy away from somebody else. There is a time when you have to know if you are going to get a young man or not, and you stay in or you don't." Marcell Harris William Wilkerson/ESPN.comMarcell Harris is one safety the entire country will be after next year.
Texas didn't know on Green-Beckham until the weekend before signing day. In fact, the week before signing day, with four potential recruits -- Davis, Dalton Santos (Van, Texas/Van), Daje Johnson (Pflugerville, Texas/Hendrickson) and Bryce Cottrell (Plano, Texas/West) -- hanging in the balance, the coaching staff was still zeroed in on Green-Beckham and made an in-home visit.
Clearly that didn't pay off and has left Brown wondering if their time and energy could have been spent more wisely somewhere else. At least Texas knew before national signing day that it would not get Green-Beckham or Edwards.
"Two of the young men we didn't get were gracious to get us out before signing day, because if you wait until today, you don't get two other players," Brown said. "So they were really great to us that they would tell us that we were not going to get them. At a time where so many are doing it today on TV and are costing coaches guys, I really appreciate those families being honest enough with us and saying, 'We are not going to come, you need to help another kid.' "
As Texas turns to 2013, most of the 18-22 recruits that will be signed should come from the state. Therefore the time, money and energy expended will not be as great as it was in 2012.
Still Texas will cast its eye to Florida in the hopes of attracting safety Marcell Harris (Groveland, Fla./South Lake). All three Florida schools are after Harris, as well as every power school in the SEC. In other words, Harris is not unlike Green-Beckham, Edwards or even Davis when it comes to suitors.
What Texas has to figure out, using all its analysis from the 2012 class, is if it's worth it.
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ut rarely has to go outside their state and when they do,they find out that they're not as popular nationally as their gigantic ego thinks and it's hard for them to understand why they're not loved like they're loved by espn and fellow texans.So since they can't handle being shut out,they'll just go home.This has nothing to do with money because they have more money than all of the Big 12 schools combined.It's laughable that Mack acts like he's concerned about saving money on a recruiting trip.What a joke!!
This post was edited by frizz on 2/7/2012 at 11:40 PM
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Texas reducing efforts on out of state recruiting?