You can't bring them in for bowl practice unless its an official, any other way they have to pay their own way. There is a quite period during that time or was. When UK makes a bowl this season and Stoops has to take time away from prep ask him how much he likes doing that to entertain kids. Early signing period will do nothing, you think kids won't flip, it will just be a few weeks earlier because the same programs will come in making their pitch just before the early signing period that they have been making on the traditional signing days. How many people are on UK's football staff counting on the field coaches which there are 9 plus the support staff? Bama has almost 50, 37 of them do nothing but recruit, supposely, but all are former college coaches or coaches with ties to the super high school teams. My guess is UK probably has less than 20 total, pretty near the same as UGA.
But vote is coming up today or tomorrow and we will soon know, but when kids flip on you in Dec. don't be surprised. When something has worked pretty well for nearly 50 years there isn't much reason to change it and I expect this change will creat more problems than it solves. Its an excuse being used by teams who don't recruit as well as others, Baylor and TCU were awful programs, didn't recruit well and built their program with kids with zero P5 offers, and might have been the 2 best teams in the country last year, they were certainly in the top 5. In 2011, TCU's class was ranked 26 with 2 4*, Baylor was ranked 46 with 1 4*, 2012 TCU was 37 with 3 4* and Baylor was 45 with 3 4*. 2013 TCU was 30 and Baylor was 31 both with 2 4*, in 14 Baylor was 30 with 2 4* and TCU was 50 with 1 4* BS
Wait until UK plays their bowl game this year and see if Stoops had rather be preparing for the bowl or entertaining kids. But let's take a look at recruiting over the last 5 years, Bama has had the number 1 class every year, but they were hardly the best team this year, Baylor and TCU may have been the 2 best teams in the country last year but neither got a chance to prove it, but they both were certainly top 5. Look at their recruiting the last 5 years,
2011 TCU 26 2 4* Baylor 46 2 4*, ,
2012 TCU 37 3 4* Baylor 45 3 4*
2013 TCU 30 2 4* Baylor 31 3 4*
2014 TCU 50 2 4* Baylor 35 2 4*
2015 TCU 34 2 4* Baylor 50 3 4*
The last 3 years UK has out recruited them. They weren't complaining and making excuses about bigger programs stealing their kids, they got the right coaches in, signed the kids who wanted to go there and kicked butt. Don't give me they weren't in the SEC, TCU beat Ole Miss like a rented mule in the bowl game and Ole Miss kicked a field goal in the last few minutes to get the 0 off the board. Big programs stealing our commits is an excuse, make your program more attractive so they won't flip. UGA's BB program sucked pre early signing period and it still sucks after an early signing period come into effect, made zero difference, this won't either, kids considering flipping won't sign and the ones who are solid will. What will be the next change force the teams that recruit better to play with 10?
