How recruiting has changed.

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:56 pm

From NicSkin's sig file on Miami Hawk Talk.

"You can be on TV more going to Miami and Bowling Green than you can going to Indiana or Ohio State," -Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome on how television has changed the landscape in recruiting.

The nice thing about all of these bowl bids, and the prospects for more bids in the future, is not unlike what is said in Nic's sig.

Not only are you going to be on TV more at BG or Miami, but you will also play on a winning team, and have a fair chance at a bowl game. The last few years have done a lot to give the MAC an edge over lower half major conference schools. In recruiting kids that have the option of playing for Indiana and a BGSU or Miami, who really has the most to offer?

With that gap closed, it make the gap between the mid-majors and the top of the majors even closer.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:58 pm

and how long with the majors allow that? Maybe just long enough to say "12-game schedule"?

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:09 pm

They'll get their 12 game schedule, and I'm all for it. It will ensure more bowl games, and the cycle will start all over again.

In the end, the low major teams still have to schedule games, and a few of those came back to bite them in their high-budget kisters last year.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:13 pm

NWLB:

Well put. America's insatiable need for TV programming certainly has helped, too.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:52 pm

BG can now go to a kid considering an Indiana or other BCS slug and say "we've won at least 8 games four years in a row, we've been ranked nationally parts of the last three years, we're on national TV at least three or four times a year and we've gone to a bowl game the last two years".. combine that with the Perry fieldhouse and the soon to be constructed Sebo center and we become a very attractive option..and that's BEFORE they cn tell them about the women to men ratio....