yep. Our recruiting ends up falling off under these corches because the teams play uninspired football, aren't competitive against good teams, etc. And this is for coaches described as "recruiters!" We have a staff full of "recruiters" right now and we can't close on hardly any top prospects because the product sucks. The most important thing by far is finding a coach who actually wins games, beats teams he shouldn't, and produces teams that play winning, competitive, exciting football. Winning is a better "recruiter" than any head coach.
Yes coach's ability to "recruit" is something that should be evaluated but it's not even close to the most important thing a head coach needs to bring to the table.
We don't have a staff of anything. Basically a glorified high school staff or even some subdivision football team. That's it. People tried selling some of the guys as great recruiters because their resumes didn't indicate that they were good coaching hires.
Kevin Beard: 7 on 7 and a year at a high school program coaching wide receivers.
Hurlie Brown: Louisiana Lafayette, FIU, and some position here but not coaching.
Ice Harris: High school head coach, that's it.
Larry Scott: Jack of all trades at USF
James Coley: Never called a game as OC before here.
Kareem Brown: Assistant at FIU
Paul Williams: Temple compatriot of Golden and company.
Randy Melvin: Most experience on the staff and he's been everywhere.
Art Kehoe: We all know this guy. Never went anywhere else or highly sought after.
Unimpressive staff with little experience coaching or recruiting at this level. Besides Melvin and Kehoe, none of them can hold a candle to those they're recruiting against if you list players they recruited and coached up.
Essentially, we lack coaching and recruiting ability.