This is what it takes at certain levels of competition for players at this quality level......Seton Hall hired Whitehead's HS/AAU coach.....was it against the rules....??? No, but it got the desired results after Year 2....so are we going to ignore this and ignore what every other program does to get players at this level??
So are we saying we shouldn't look at hiring the best potential assistant coach candidates that are connected to the highest number of quality local players that would consider playing for RU?? I keep seeing we need a "recruiting shark" and then suddenly when the player potentially or indirectly prefers or wants a coach or "shark" that he likes or is familiar with to stick around, we want to jump all over the player. Should Sanders retweet it....probably not, but I'd rather have the player do that, vs. trying to guess where he stands on the topic and getting blindsided at the 11th hour.
The one thing that I feel is necessary as a fan base here is to adjust the mindset if you are serious about winning.....fans in recent days are not liking my posts because it's somehow not what they want to hear or see or read, but I also would not over think things. OR we can't have it both ways....we are either going to like every other program with two feet in the water, or we continue to languish behind the rest of the Power 5 conferences and others....
We hired a football trainer with 100% intentions that he would help RU in football recruiting for classes in 2016 and beyond....he was never a coach, but someone connected to specific recruits....Then Michigan goes and hires the same potential HS coach we considered hiring, because the perception (whether real or imagined), is that the coach would help land kids for that school.
Do you want to continue to finish in the bottom quarter or half of the conference in both sports or are we going to go with the flow of what college athletics has become. I am not judging or stating that fans should feel "put-off" by the tweet, but Sanders seems like an engaging personality and even with enough swagger to overcome whatever happens.....but if you prefer to win faster, you do so with Sanders here, vs thinking you are going to land the next Sanders by hiring his AAU coach or an assistant that has an "in" on the next big-time talent.
