TCU doesn’t know how to recruit

[305umking]

Yeah but Ga has NFL talent on their roster and are going to stomp TCU imo. Michigan is just another slow Big10 school being exposed.

 

[skyman]

they run an offense that can do “more with less”. if they ran the offense we do they’d be lucky to win 7 games.

Better to be tuff n fizical, run thru wall and impose your will.. "More wit less" is for pussies!..

 

[da truth]

How many recruiting heavyweights did they play? Texas and OU? And both of those teams were in a rebuilding mode this year.

Tcu would have demolished us this year

 

[LitClicker]

Gimme Dykes and his staff over Cristobal and his staff ALL F'KN DAY!

 

[grover]

Gimme Dykes and his staff over Cristobal and his staff ALL F'KN DAY!

I'll take the UTn or TCU OCs over any of our previous 20 years of OCs.

I recognize it's the HCs that are driving the bus. But a mini-me Heupel or Dykes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mini-me Harbaugh.

 

[88]

Insanely improbably season in his first year at TCU. Crazy

 

[Applecane]

Sure. Beating the teams you’re suppose to beat and winning the majority of your 50-50 games speaks volumes to how good a coaching job a staff does.

But it’s not a path to being truly elite. Only elite recruiting allows that.

Dunno. TCU looked awfully elite tonight…

 

[BeastMode]

Tcu was 5-7 last year and now in the championship. Crazy!

 

[JustAFanHTX]

We obsess over recruiting rankings and not without reason. But look at these paltry TCU numbers:
Class rankings
2019. 32
2020. 24
2021. 46
2022. 34

Better this year:
2023. 18

Guess coaching can compensate for mediocrity on the recruiting trail…

Imagine that…

 

[JustAFanHTX]

So y’all still gone blame the roster we had for Mario Cristobal happening to them? If so man y’all just lost.

 

[407cane]

It can happen both ways. Had we had an elite offensive mind come in, yeah maybe we could have won 10 games this year, maybe?

Having the best recruiter in the country can get us there and more consistently over a long period of time

In 2-3 years we will have top 5 talent in the country and we’ll be fine

 

[Cylo]

We obsess over recruiting rankings and not without reason. But look at these paltry TCU numbers:
Class rankings
2019. 32
2020. 24
2021. 46
2022. 34

Better this year:
2023. 18

Guess coaching can compensate for mediocrity on the recruiting trail…

Great stat Apple. Its numbers like this that drives me insane. I'll look back at Richt, Manny recruiting rankings and we shouldn't be this bad but every year were just an average team.

 

[Cylo]

The Big 12 and PAC 10 have not been strong conferences over the last decade or so…. I fully expect TCU to get waxed tomorrow. Coaching does matter, but recruiting, based on history, matters more…

And were in the ACC. In a division with Ga Tech, Va Tech and Virginia. TCU would clean out the coastal

 

[Cylo]

Dunno. TCU looked awfully elite tonight…

I'm just reading this thread right now and I'm shocked at the hate you were getting or even more the hate TCU got. Even if they got blown out tonight (which they didn't) its still pretty remarkable at what they did and what we have failed to do

 

[Cylo]

Tcu would have demolished us this year

By the 2nd quarter too

 

[JD08]

So y’all still gone blame the roster we had for Mario Cristobal happening to them? If so man y’all just lost.

Isn't it possible that both things could be true?
Our 2022 roster wasn't exactly packed with talent.

 

[Sandman211]

I guess the same can be said for coaches...

 

[JustAFanHTX]

Isn't it possible that both things could be true?
Our 2022 roster wasn't exactly packed with talent.

Yes. And they were both true but not to the extent the board makes it seem imo. For example a lot of people attributed the destinations guys we lost to the portal chose as a perception of their talent. That’s not how that works. A lot of those guys didn’t have a lot of film and recruiting doesn’t stop. Miami isn’t a top tier program and they went 5-7 nobody was beating down their door because of that fact not because of their individual talent. A kid who has never played at UGA has more options in the portal than the guy who signed at Miami.

 

[Torch_Da1]

Every year in the playoff at least one or two teams get steamrolled, but it always happens to the team with a recruiting average far below the other three. Maybe it works out for tcu tomorrow but I wouldn't count on it. At the end of the day it's about putting together a complete package and the horses are the biggest part.

that didn't age well

 

[HurricanePhilly]

So prior to this year was Dykes a good or bad coach? Just trying to figure out where this argument could go…and if Tcu goes 7-5 next year what happens.

A lot of variables past, present and futures for this thread. Exciting potential for all sides.