I must admit we do seem to be slipping when it comes to recruiting New Jersey.

There is a chance we strike out on both our NJ targets this year (Hill and Beal).

This will be the 2nd straight class without a Garden State player, after four straight years of landing one.

USC should send him more texts.

USC should send him more texts.

USC should send him more texts.

Hey Scott:
Did USC just believe they don't need this guy?

Maybe I can invent a way to prevent this from happening in the future.

Given the excellent job Jeff Byers has done communicating to Kris O'Dowd, one has to wonder why they didn't use Byers to communicate with this Will Hill prospect.

If they didn't communicate, then they probably don't care...

commits can (and often do) change their minds

Well, obviously USC is horrible at recruiting then.

We need to go after Beal full throttle-he will be a game changer on the D side. Not to mention he looks like Cushing's little brother.

44-6 alias 13-4nothing you need to invent some magic that can rescue UCLA or else you will be just as bad as Notre Dame.

florida and urban meyer can kiss my butt

Posts like this, where Scott tries to make a mountain out of a molehill, piss me off. (I'm easily angered what can I say).

Urban Meyer is a good recruiter (dirty or not that's not for me to say) and he is supposed to seal off the South and East Coast from Pete where possible. The fact that PC can still go into the South (also Urban's territory along with about 4 other very good SEC teams) and get guys like Brod Green and Joe McKnight right out from under Meyer means that PC still has it.

It's supposed to be difficult to get guys out of state and not the norm. Scott's acting like PC has a contract or right to every kid from Jersey and that they all want to fly halfway across the country to play for PC so PC must be doing something wrong when they don't committ. That's never going to be the norm. PC cannot possibly put a fence around a state 3000 miles away. Especially when he's not really heavily recruiting a kid.

A lot of these kids use offers from USC to make a name for themselves back East anyways. They know they don't want to go away across country to school but they still love the attention from the best program in the country. It helps them get on ESPNews to make their announcements when USC and Florida are both interested.

Urban is doing what he is supposed to be doing when Florida is winning. Getting guys from close to home to go to Florida instead of USC. I'll start getting worried if Urban comes into Cali and starts regularly picking off 4 and 5 star players USC is interested in.

Till then PC is doing what he should. Locking up Cali and going out of state for select players - as he says the guys he knows have the potential to be NFL 1st rounders. Cush, Rivers, McKnight, Green, Turner, Hazelton, RoJo etc.

I agree with everything Tyler had to say.

SC only has 85 scholarships to hand out. How many 5-star players are in the country-- several hundred, at least. Can't get them all.