Posted by tianyi7886 on 8/3/2011 3:50:00 PM (view original):
And these kind of players is why I don't like it when coaches complain about recruiting generation. I am seeing quite a few D2 teams with players rated in the 800s and alot of of D3 players rated in the 700s. These guys should be playing at a level above their respective division. Recruiting generation might be flawed (I guess really flawed at D1?) but not looking deep enough into the talent pool is also a major problem.
They do exist, but there's not enough of them to be able to bank on being able to find one, or to make developing a roster of them into a viable strategy (I'm talking D1 here). There's still too big an element of luck involved. Whenever I take over a team with low prestige, I scour the nation looking for exactly that type of player. In some cases, I've been lucky and found enough to succeed. In others, I've come up bone dry in repeated seasons, despite scouting 30-40 states. Or like this past season, I did find two 520-ish players (at D1) with High-High potential almost across the board, but A-prestige schools scooped them up on signing day.