[NU Sports] Recruiting

[Jeff Beamsley]

Harry,
 
I agree that at the end of the day all that matters is wins and losses.  
 
BUT
 
There also appears to be a good correlation between the quality of the
recruiting classes over time and the future success of the football team.
In fact, it almost becomes self correcting, as Ty Willingham can attest,
because coaches who have consistently good recruiting classes and don't win
end up getting replaced.
 
Just as you use tools which track current metrics to predict future
performance of investments for your customers base, recruiting class ranking
is a tool to predict future football success.  
 
What we have at NU appears to be a coach who under recruits (even compared
to institutions with similar academic rigor) and over performs.  This is
probably a good thing if he is able to consistently produce teams with the
heart that we've seen some of his teams demonstrate.  This is probably a bad
thing when we see our team lose because we are playing teams that are just
way faster than we are.
 
Jeff

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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:35 PM
To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Recruiting


I am a money manager and no matter how bad people think my selections are,
the only yardstick that counts is the performance --and the same goes for
recruiting classes--Evaluate RW on our record (and graduation rate and if we
continue to run a clean program)--not on how the "experts" think we did on
recruiting

Harry