Nope, recruiting is what matters on its own. If it was about that, nobody would commit in the offseason.
It seems to be a little different for us.
Winning matters more to OUR success.
Think of it like a balance scale. We have advantages that make a certain type of kid want to be here, but disadvantages as well when compared to the big public schools.
FOR US, winning gives us a lot more weight to pull bigger recruits.
Fans over value our urban location and lifestyle. These guys can go to state schools and be big fish in small ponds. They can be pussy magnets in towns that revolve around the football team.
Once we lost the pro level coaching and driven, savvy recruiters and had to contend with cheating, the more we lost, the more it emphasized our disadvantages.
Losing hurts us more than our recruiting rivals. Makes us easy to negatively recruit against. Shyt coaches, misused players, empty stadium in another county, big city crime, The perception is not easy to overcome. Especially to kids who have only known us to be trash.
This is why Mario can’t be complacent with the roster. Wins put us on a level playing field. Without wins and good coaches, we end up trying to sell palm trees and old nfl draft results.
