Food For Thought: Do You Have to Be A Shark to Succeed In SEC Recruiting?

[Spiderman]

I 100% expected Don to do this and expected several would follow. I also 100% expected JoMo to do the same and am kinda frustrated he isn't. This isn't checkers, it's football! There are no ethics in football. **

Little different. We aren't gonna flip kids from the N. East and East coast that are committed to Penn. St

[Todd4State]

Little different. We aren't gonna flip kids from the N. East and East coast that are committed to Penn. St

And obviously Dan isn't going to flip Mississippi kids to Florida either.

Honestly, it looks like he would have been better off trying to learn his new territory but recruiting innovation never was his strong suit.

[Homedawg]

Little different. We aren't gonna flip kids from the N. East and East coast that are committed to Penn. St

This ^ it isn't complicated. And it's a waste of time. Get the guys we have and lock em up best you can. Some have a tough one comprehending this concept.

[Homedawg]

And obviously Dan isn't going to flip Mississippi kids to Florida either.

Honestly, it looks like he would have been better off trying to learn his new territory but recruiting innovation never was his strong suit.

Good point. He took a shot at the best ones we had and pretty much failed.

[Dawgpile]

You don't repay that with poaching recruits. Much the same way when Dan came here from FL.

All bets are apparently off for 2019, Garrett Shrader got a recent offer.

[bulldogcountry1]

College football head coach is unlike any other profession on earth. I mean, how many professions can get away with shopping around for other jobs with competing companies and not get canned? In fact, it's the opposite. They usually get a raise out of it.

Concerning the ethics question, it was definitely shitty for Don to start trying to flip recruits the day he left. At the very least, I don't think coaches should be able to contact former recruits until the school they left has replaced them.

I don't have a problem with CJM not going after PSU recruits, but if they reach out to him....that's different.

[Lord McBuckethead]

2019 is fine.

[ShotgunDawg]

College football head coach is unlike any other profession on earth. I mean, how many professions can get away with shopping around for other jobs with competing companies and not get canned? In fact, it's the opposite. They usually get a raise out of it.

Concerning the ethics question, it was definitely shitty for Don to start trying to flip recruits the day he left. At the very least, I don't think coaches should be able to contact former recruits until the school they left has replaced them.

I don't have a problem with CJM not going after PSU recruits, but if they reach out to him....that's different.

I agree it’s a terrible, unregulated system that models nothing else In the world except maybe sales jobs.