AMDG wrote:
Mertz2003 wrote:
natetheskate wrote:
For the most part the rosters of th A-10 are players from the East. Dont know if you consider Ohio the east but there is a considerable Ohio presence on some squads..Duquesne and St. Louis have a good number of Midwest kids.....What is unusaul is that there a lot of foreign players...2 schools, including #1 Davidson have 6 foreign players...but total 7 have 3 or more foreign players.
I am curious to see how being in the A-10 is going to change our recruiting....I would love to see us take 5 Chicago kids and dominate!
I think we should definitely expand our recruiting footprint East and internationally. Chicago is an easy place to fly to for international kids, and LUC is a great school. We'll always get the 1-2 local guys that are a good fit, but let's replace our Omaha and Kansas City pipelines with East Coast and Europe.
Defensively, we have to lock down Chicago so that we aren't losing players to other A10 teams. It's fine if players are going to bigger conferences and programs but Chicago has to be ours in conference.
Yeah, I wouldn't be too worried about that, although Dayton has a history of getting Chicago players. Also, paradoxically I think broadening your recruiting base in order to get the best players actually ends up making you more attractive to local kids, because the team is better. If you look at how Illinois has been building, outside of Ayo, they have built the program around recruiting from all over, which in turn is now making the top prospects want to stay home because Illinois is now considered a top program. Not a perfect parallel, but you never want to be over-reliant on local recruiting.