I mean also the question is looks bad to who, and has what ACTUAL negative impact?
Seems entirely a negative MEDIA or Fan look. Not actual tangible impact. Like us missing on Mathews is impacting us landing other top recruits? I doubt it. In fact it's more arguable it makes it more likely we land other top recruits because we are gonna spend what we're gonna spend and hopefully that money just results in us landing top dlineman instead.
And like other recruits are gonna be like "wow y'all missed on Mathews I don't wanna go there?"... Uh **** no lol.
Itd entirely he a Media/Fan "Look bad" thing. You think the players on this team or that will be on this team are going to actually be negatively impacted? No.
Its a bad look only because we wanted him, expect he could have been a high impact player with a high ceiling, and now we don't have him. That's the only actual impact.
So yeah the bad look stuff is mostly bs in terms of recruiting misses. Any 1 player isn't the be all end all.
Like if we land a great DLine class and many of our other top targets it won't be a bad look to have a top 5 recruiting class lol
If you’re looking for something tangible, it’s just a (small) crack in the armor that coaches will use to negatively recruit.
How tangible is this? Likely not much, but I’m answering your question. It’s not entirely a twitter trolling situation.
There are coaches, 100.0%, who will tell other recruits Miami can’t even keep their homegrown stars home, something’s wrong, blah blah blah.
It also impacts future recruits. Again, albeit in a very small capacity, but it is a data point. LSU gets **** near every single kid they want from Louisiana. Why? Because it’s drilled into every kid’s head from birth. You’re a baller? You go to Baton Rouge like *waves hand at 500 elite local players*. It’s not realistic to get every single SFL kid we want, but the more we do get, the more kids in future classes see that and it’s hammered home over and over that your best option is to stay home.
Getting this worked up over one kid at the one position we trust our staff to produce is peak CIS. Get ahold of yourselves. We’re more than fine.
But there are actual real-life impacts. They’re just not exactly crippling, like most people here want to portray. Go the **** on to College Station. Enjoy yelling at midnight. We’re just fine over here.
