[NU Sports] I can live with losing a game ...

[John Labbe]

On Monday, October 09, 2006, at 03:52PM, Brad Wilson <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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A few more 41-9 debacles and we may not have a
>recruiting class. 
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>Brad Wilson
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I think a loss like the one we suffered on Saturday is already "built in" to our recruiting capabilities.  In other words, although we've had a number of winning seasons recently, we haven't exactly been a national title contender and we've had some embarrassing losses and embarrassing statistics to our credit in all of those years.

Obviously, improving on these things would help our recruiting, but I don't think a few big losses to Big Ten teams will really worsen our ability to recruit.

It sounds like this one lost recruit to Wisconsin had a preference for Wisconsin, anyway, and just went with it when they offered him a scholarship.

If you're Fitzgerald, I think you have to point to some of our recent winning seasons and tell recruits that this year is a rebuilding season for numerous apparent reasons.  Although Ohio State and Michigan may not have "rebuilding seasons," it's a pretty common phenomenon among most other schools.