Here is how I would build my team. Recruit only highly ranked players - and the best of the best. If we only sign 5 guys - thats ok - get the 5 best ones! Hopefully that number might be as high as 10 - probably never more than that number. Have 6 guys on staff whose total job is to evaluate all of the college players playing each year. Plan on bringing in 30 or so new players every year. Focus on the portal! Hopefully you find 10 to 15 key new players in the portal every year. By the third year you should have 15 solid high school recruits playing on your team, 10 solid 3rd year transfers, 15 solid second year transfers and 20 solid first year transfers. The rest of your roster will be made up from those who haven't quit or transfered out. That's the model.
Next hire the best technical and teaching coaches you can. Make recruiting for them a non issue. Have the 6 evaluators bringing their selections to campus to check out everything, meet the position coaches and be sold on the program by the coaches they will be playing for! The Head coach needs to be the leas salesman along with the co-ordinators and the positions coaches. Let those great coaches show them how we will make them all conference and future pros.
This will require a huge budget - $100 million or more. So......................
Finally, have fund raising efforts going all the time. Recruit big companies for sponsorships all over the place - every major company who operates in the entire state of Kentucky has to be gone after for support. Every alumnus who heads or has successful businesses around the world need to lined up also. Have every yard marker sponsored, every section, every light pole - lol - sell sponsorships to everything. Then raise prices just like the pros do. You will have a winning team - the poor folks like me who have been fans will still be fans - we will just be watching from home as we don't want to spend $1,500 a game to be seen at the stadium or need huge tax deductions. After all those 100 inch TV's can now be bought for $1,500! All the games will be on TV anyway. That leaves more money in your pocket to support the team by buying logo things to wear.
Go Big Blue!
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