It's a failure to close IMO. Hometown school. Stated as his leader since the summer. Visited multiple times. Came to multiple games. Favorable offense and scheme. Mother who wants him close to home. How is it not a fail? I understand you can't force any kid to go anywhere. It's their choice. But JDs recruitment is a failure by our program to seal the deal on a kid we had a lead with. It's not the first nor will it be the last time. Hopefully we can be the OSU in some of these other target's situations.
I think the word "fail" gets thrown around too much. Like you said can't force a kid to go somewhere he doesn't want to, but the staff recruited the **** outta him not sure what else their suppose to do. A fail is not recruiting that South Carolina freshman last season.
BINGO. Too many cats here dont know what the F*CK they are talking about. "Failure" as if the outcome is something that rests in the hands of the staff. At the end of the day, all the staff can do is do all it can to recruit the kid. A "Failure" in recruiting is ******** up the relationship with a kid, not evaluating him properly, not recruiting him, or getting on him too late. That is fair to blame the staff for "failing". But when you recruit the **** out of a kid, and do everything you can to get him, and he still choses to go somewhere else for whatever reason, that's just unfortunate, but not really a "failure" but the staff. Failure implies that somehow the end result is in your control. Once the staff has done everything it can to recruit a kid, the result is out of their hands.
Trying hard doesn't mean you're doing the right things to be successful. Our defensive corches try hard, but we're not stopping anyone. Therefore, they're failing even though they're trying hard.
You guys are cutting our coaches too much slack when it comes to missing on super blue-chip local stars like Cook. It's popular to say "they did all they could,"
but you don't really know exactly what they did and why they couldn't convince to come here a local kid whose family wants him here and whose brother and beloved teammates go here.
At the end of the day, recruiting, just like wins and losses on the field, is a results game. You can try as hard as possible, but if you don't succeed you failed. It happens to everyone sometimes. But if it happens too much, then you'll be fsu's bytch in perpetuity. Cook is a very rare talent who can mask a lot of corching deficiencies. UM simply can't afford to lose a guy like that to a hated rival.