In just the last 3 months ...

[Norm Peterson]

By the way, you left out an important part of the quote.  Context, y'know.

 

I wasn't trying to make this about Creighton.  

 

If you're referring to everything before post 4 on this thread, that's an accurate statement.

 

 

Here's the rest of the quote:

 

I wasn't trying to make this about Creighton.  But bringing Creighton into the discussion is illustrative of the great job of recruiting that Miles has done and how he has parlayed the successful season we had into recruiting gains this fall.  When we can draw parallels or contrasts between us and another school in close proximity that felt they also had a good season, it really helps to drive home the point.

 

I don't see how you can score it as anything but 4 straight recruiting wins over another school with whom we will typically be in competition for recruits.  I think it says something that in four consecutive cases in which we were in direct competition for a particular prospect, WE got the commit.  Forget that it's Creighton for a little bit and just hit the bottom line:  Miles is killing it on the recruiting trail.  That's the upshot.

 

Like I said, it's not ABOUT Creighton.  It's ABOUT us.  And the success we've had going head-to-head against another school in close proximity to us.  But that's still about us.

[hhcmatt]

No, it's an accurate statement period.  I think I've made it pretty clear.  You cannot evaluate recruiting success in a vacuum.  You do it by comparing where you are with where others, similarly situated, are.

 

One could compare against the rest of the conference, vs former Husker coaches, vs other Miles classes, etc.

 

Like I said, it's not ABOUT Creighton. 

 

[atskooc]

 

 

I wasn't trying to make this about Creighton.  

 

If you're referring to everything before post 4 on this thread, that's an accurate statement.

 

No, it's an accurate statement period.  I think I've made it pretty clear.  You cannot evaluate recruiting success in a vacuum.  You do it by comparing where you are with where others, similarly situated, are.

 

If our last 4 commits had all been pursued by Iowa and we'd beaten out Iowa for all of them, I'd have pointed out that we'd beaten Iowa for 4 straight commits.  But the thread -- and the intent behind it, which I don't see how you think you can judge -- wouldn't have been about Iowa.  It would still have been about us.  I was remarking on what I think is pretty substantial forward strides in recruiting FOR US. 

 

Poo poo it all you want but the fact that we won 4 straight head-to-head battles says something.   About US.  (And maybe about them, too, but that wasn't my focus.  You didn't see me doing any endzone dances over the recruits they've missed on.)

 

I don't see why you're making such a big deal about beating out a mid-major for recruits.

[Norm Peterson]

 

No, it's an accurate statement period.  I think I've made it pretty clear.  You cannot evaluate recruiting success in a vacuum.  You do it by comparing where you are with where others, similarly situated, are.

 

One could compare against the rest of the conference, vs former Husker coaches, vs other Miles classes, etc.

 

Like I said, it's not ABOUT Creighton. 

 

 

Y'know, Dimes, you can make any comparisons you want.  Start a thread on how Miles compares to Sadler.  Knock yourself out.

 

I was pointing out that we've had 6 commits in the last 3 months.  And it just so happens that the 4 most recent of those 6 commits had something in common in addition to the fact that they all committed to us, which is that they were all also being pursued by another school in our area that also just came off an NCAA run.

 

Now, if the school that we'd beaten out for all four of those kids was a fellow B1G conference school, I'd have mentioned that fellow B1G conference school.  But comparisons to fellow conference schools or to past coaches were TOTALLY NOT GERMANE to the topic of 6 commits in the last 3 months. 

 

What was germane was a common factor that the 4 most recent of those commits had to each other.  I didn't make it up; it's there.  It's there on its own.  I only pointed it out because it gives evidence of trajectory.  And that had more to do with anything I've brought up in this thread than who that other school happens to be.