HopFan16 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:06 pm
flalax22 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:33 pm
When was the last time a MIAA recruit not named Brown lived up to or exceeded expectations with the Jays?
Not allowing Brown in the discussion is a little bit "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln" but I digress. How often has a recruit from ANY league materially exceeded expectations for us? Maybe Crawley? Durkin? It hasn't seemed to happen much in the last several years no matter where a recruit played in high school. One could argue that is more a player development and/or widespread recruiting issue than it is something to do with a specific league in a specific state. I could point to lots and lots of MIAA players on other teams who greatly exceeded expectations coming out of high school. You don't have to venture much further than 5 minutes up Charles Street to one Pat Spencer.
I think we're less likely to see MIAA kids because Milliman just doesn't have the recruiting connections there yet and because it's clear they want to run a box-esque offense—not because of any perceptions about them or some belief that they don't pan out. I think we'll see plenty on defense (they're keeping a kid from St. Mary's and added an LB goalie to the '21 class) but, sure, on offense I think we're going to see less MIAA X attackman quarterback types because of the style of offense they are installing.
Flalax, ok, thanks for sticking up your hand to explain RRR's grinding...
However I think '16 is right on point re Mrs. Lincoln.
I'm also not sure anyone really wants to pee on the Stanwick brothers, right?
Pretty sure anyone with two + brain cells would have been happy to have them on their team in each's 4 year tenure.
That includes Milliman and Grant.
It's dumb (yes, IMO) for anyone to suggest that recruiting from the MIAA produces "soft" or "entitled" players. Just too many examples directly contrary to that misplaced image.
Now, if one wanted to say that the best MIAA players in college over the past decade (other than Brown and the Stanwicks, sheesh, two of the top 10, 3 of the top 15, point scorers in Hopkins history) produced somewhere other than Hopkins, that's probably fair. Lots of MIAA alum first team AA's didn't go to Hopkins...
And it's probably fair to say that Hopkins has had a substantial share of recruits from all over that have performed less than some of the starry eyed projections for them.
But why look backwards at this point?
There's a couple of classes of recruits in the pipeline to be interested in, a new coaching staff, and lots of transferring around that's going to only be exacerbated by COVID...isn't that enough to discuss?