Is anything I said there wrong?wgdsr wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:41 pmso after a bunch of judgmental comments about rutgers, you demand there are no more judgmental posts about rutgers. got it.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:58 pm There are a lot of value judgments being made about Rutgers and Head Coach Brecht. Sure, 11 transfers is eye opening. Certainly not what I would ever want to see Johns Hopkins doing.
But Rutgers is not Johns Hopkins … or the Ivy League … or Notre Dame … or Virginia … or Duke.
I could easily imagine a highly sought-after HS recruit thinking that there are a few dozen Division I schools he would prefer to attend over Rutgers. Rutgers brings in good HS recruiting classes, but it is very unlikely that Rutgers could regularly compete for (much less win) a national championship without major acquisitions through the transfer portal.
Rutgers is clearly in a stronger position in the transfer wars than it is with respect to HS recruiting. First, many schools will not accept many transfer lacrosse players. Other top schools, for example some in the Ivy League, do not accept lacrosse transfers at all (or rarely do). On the other hand, Rutgers under Coach Brecht accepts large transfer classes, and Rutgers probably doesn’t have the same academic hurdles that a Johns Hopkins or Notre Dame does.
If, then, Rutgers is in a relatively stronger competitive position in the transfer market than it is in the HS recruiting pool, why shouldn’t Coach Brecht leverage that strength in the transfer market to make his team more competitive for national championships?
I would even say that Rutgers has virtually no chance of ever winning a national championship without bringing in substantial transfer classes.
In regularly bringing in large, talented transfer classes, Coach Brecht is simply doing his job. Rutgers cannot, and should not, be expected to recruit its talent in the same way as programs that are more competitive for HS recruits.
Enough of the judgmental comments … Brecht is doing what he needs to do at Rutgers.
DocBarrister
there is this: if you told me i could parachute in to any acc/b1g/ivy school in the country and needed to pull 6 top/playable recruits per class out of 3,900 schools to recruit from? + canada? i would take that challenge.
Coach Brecht is acknowledging the realities at Rutgers at doing what he must to keep Rutgers competitive in the top tier of Division I lacrosse.
DocBarrister