Be patient Creighton fans...
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:45 pmSaw this article over at Bluejays Today about Creighton's lack of success on the recruiting trail so far this off-season and this was written before JP Macura choose X over the Jays.
"But as the program heads into the second full week of September, the Bluejays have yet to receive a commitment from a player for the recruiting class of 2014. Coach Greg McDermott said there’s no reason to panic, that he and his staff knew this process would take time. Rome wasn’t built in a day,” assistant coach Patrick Sellers said...Yet one detects at least a tinge of disappointment as the coaches talk about the impact of the new Big East on Creighton’s recruiting. They are finding themselves still pedaling uphill until the Bluejays at least start bouncing basketballs in Big East games or their new practice facility is more than just a beehive of construction activity."
“Until kids see us playing on TV on Fox Sports 1, and until kids can walk into that new practice facility and are able to shoot baskets and see the unbelievable locker room and team room and weight room and academic facility, it’s a lot of hot air being tossed around,” assistant coach Steve Lutz said. “It’s the American way: Kids want to smell it and feel it and kick the tires.”
I always thought Creighton's bump in recruiting would come next year after they won a lot of games and received national press/exposure as a BIG EAST team this year. This seems to be the attitude of the coaching staff as well:
"Sellers is convinced that will happen, that players can be found without sacrificing the program’s principles. "We’re going to get some good players,” he said. “Our main core has always been the Midwest, but I think we’re going to get some guys from the east and from out west. We’re going to get our share of good players. It’s just going to take some time. Once guys start seeing who we are and where we are and our fan base, this thing is going to take off. People still don’t know a lot about us. They still have the same kind of stereotypes about Nebraska that I had when I came here. That’s going to change."
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130907/BLUEJAYS/130908871
Great read...
"But as the program heads into the second full week of September, the Bluejays have yet to receive a commitment from a player for the recruiting class of 2014. Coach Greg McDermott said there’s no reason to panic, that he and his staff knew this process would take time. Rome wasn’t built in a day,” assistant coach Patrick Sellers said...Yet one detects at least a tinge of disappointment as the coaches talk about the impact of the new Big East on Creighton’s recruiting. They are finding themselves still pedaling uphill until the Bluejays at least start bouncing basketballs in Big East games or their new practice facility is more than just a beehive of construction activity."
“Until kids see us playing on TV on Fox Sports 1, and until kids can walk into that new practice facility and are able to shoot baskets and see the unbelievable locker room and team room and weight room and academic facility, it’s a lot of hot air being tossed around,” assistant coach Steve Lutz said. “It’s the American way: Kids want to smell it and feel it and kick the tires.”
I always thought Creighton's bump in recruiting would come next year after they won a lot of games and received national press/exposure as a BIG EAST team this year. This seems to be the attitude of the coaching staff as well:
"Sellers is convinced that will happen, that players can be found without sacrificing the program’s principles. "We’re going to get some good players,” he said. “Our main core has always been the Midwest, but I think we’re going to get some guys from the east and from out west. We’re going to get our share of good players. It’s just going to take some time. Once guys start seeing who we are and where we are and our fan base, this thing is going to take off. People still don’t know a lot about us. They still have the same kind of stereotypes about Nebraska that I had when I came here. That’s going to change."
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130907/BLUEJAYS/130908871
Great read...