[Hulk01]

Matt Squeri was good on recruiting before he allowed work and women to destroy his DC life.  When he got more involved, I let him run with it.  He understands the game pretty well although he whiffed on the 2012 class. The killer call that year came from Tom Feldstein, aka tmf.  He called the call man-for-man--Garnett, Murphy, Peat, Shittu, Rector, misses on Bam Bradley and Jameis Winson an epic call in Stanford history.  TMF still has inside info.  Dave Fleming was a treasure trove before he left for fame. 

Longwinded had good insights on recruiting, too, and influenced what became the HOTS (the Hulk Offer Theory Score).  This create a much too precise number for scoring a player's offers.  The weakness is that some kids over-report and some offers are not committable.  But the tool proved to have predictive value: On the 2011 team, you could predict 21 of the 22 starters based on the HOTS, and it suggested that Terrence Brown could become a player and that Jemari Roberts was really a maybe.

The likely HOTs score for this 2014 class probably will exceed the 2012 class, btw.  And I think there is more upside here,  How many classes have had the possible upside of Alfieri, Okereke, Thomas, Alexander, Perez, Marx,Chryst, Schultz, and McCaffrey?  Maybe Walsh's first class of his second term, but probably not. And no group has come within 400 hugs of this one for early bonding. 

I say watch out. This could be one wild ride.

[Hulk01]

Matt Squeri was good on recruiting before he allowed work and women to destroy his DC life.  When he got more involved, I let him run with it.  He understands the game pretty well although he whiffed on the 2012 class. The killer call that year came from Tom Feldstein, aka tmf.  He called the call man-for-man--Garnett, Murphy, Peat, Shittu, Rector, misses on Bam Bradley and Jameis Winson an epic call in Stanford history.  TMF still has inside info.  Dave Fleming was a treasure trove before he left for fame. 

Longwinded had good insights on recruiting, too, and influenced what became the HOTS (the Hulk Offer Theory Score).  This create a much too precise number for scoring a player's offers.  The weakness is that some kids over-report and some offers are not committable.  But the tool proved to have predictive value: On the 2011 team, you could predict 21 of the 22 starters based on the HOTS, and it suggested that Terrence Brown could become a player and that Jemari Roberts was really a maybe.

The likely HOTs score for this 2014 class probably will exceed the 2012 class, btw.  And I think there is more upside here,  How many classes have had the possible upside of Alfieri, Okereke, Thomas, Alexander, Perez, Marx,Chryst, Schultz, and McCaffrey?  Maybe Walsh's first class of his second term, but probably not. And no group has come within 400 hugs of this one for early bonding. 

I say watch out. This could be one wild ride.