UH is recruiting former Houston Texan, All Pro OT, Duane Brown’s son, 4 star DL Ezekiel Ayangbile. He has a long list of offers. Too early in the process to know a favorite.
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BOOM! 2027 Katy Jordan WR Mo Poko.
https://247sports.com/Player/Mo-Poko-46164472/
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Looking for an updated list of 2027 recruits…
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That’s my neighborhood’s school! My next door neighbor has a son on the team.
GO JORDAN WARRIORS!!!
GO COOGS!!!
Good recruiting tactic…no bs & straight to the point.
I said that on another string.
That’s why I told 92010 that NIL/sugar daddying doesn’t give poorer or G level schools an equalizer; he and Cullen have argued that for a long time, and that simply ISN’T what has happened in the last three years under this new NIL/TP system.
On the contrary, it has turned G-level schools into the P4 FARM SYSTEM, and has really just made the rich (full shares B1G schools) EVEN RICHER (allowing them to easily win the last three natties).
It simply AIN’T as he and Cullen theorize. It’s the opposite.
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Beast indeed. His agility is outstanding.
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It did not start with nil. It started when players were allowed to transfer
A G5 is one mega donor from reaching the top. Sure it has not happened yet but technically it can.
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I’d no longer be a fan.
I wouldn’t put money on it.
How many G5’s have megadonors or billionaires? I think Rice has one billionaire. That might be the best test case if he decides to back the football program.
Edit: I was curious and took to AI to answer my own question. Rice and Tulane are the best shots to see that happen among the G5’s. They both have wealthy alumni that do donate to the school (not sure about football). But I think it is notable that Tulane did make the CFP and has been making progress in football (thanks to Fritz). Rice need to step it up!
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Rice and Tulane’s wealthy alums don’t really donate to athletics except once every blue moon. Rice even has a clause saying they can’t use any endowment money on athletics.
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And even if they do, will any of them be willing to be a sugar daddy?
Take Stanford, which, at least for now, is still P4.
They have more billionaire alums than just about any other school, and an endowment bigger than nearly anybody else.
Guess what?
They have about a decade’s worth of consecutive four win or less seasons in.football, and about a decade’s worth.of no NCAA men’s basketball tourney appearances.
Their fan base is small, their alumni largely uninterested, and no sugar daddy has emerged.
Only full shares B1G teams are winning it all these days.
Rice and Tulane, as G league schools, have both become UH farm teams in recent years.
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I’d say Stanford backs Athletics pretty well…
A big part of it is that they have 36 separate Men’s and Women’s teams, perhaps more than any other University in the country and the Director’s Cup favors schools with more sports, as the award is based upon “cumulative points”.
But the fact that they have won a Championship in at least one sport, every year, for 49 straight years debunks the theory that they don’t care about sports.
They just need a good football and men’s basketball coach.
They’re more of an “every sport” school.
Stanford wins all its titles in sports that nobody pays to watch.
No one cares about their natties in water polo, synchronized swimming, and tennis.
In the two sports that truly matter (football and men’s basketball), they’ve blown chunks for about a decade.
Bad attendance. Poor fan following.
I saw part of the Stanford v Hawaii game and most of the ND v Stanford game this past season.
Stanford did not look anywhere close to being a respectable power conference football program.
They lost to Hawaii, and against ND, they looked absolutely overmatched at every position. Stanford played that game at home, but most of the people in the stands appeared to be ND fans.
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I don’t disagree.
In the 2 most popular (and revenue producing) sports, they have been irrelevant for a while now.
But they have the resources ($).
They just need the right coaches…
Perhaps it’s because they need the revenue, from these 2 sports, a LOT less than most schools?
Stanford is filthy rich already…
And, Academically speaking, they’re one of the top dozen, or so, schools in the country.
They don’t “need” to hang their hat on football success. And they certainly don’t “need” it to drive up student enrollment.
Perhaps there’s also an element of what other top academic schools, historically speaking, have always struggled with…
Athletes meeting the academic criteria to qualify to go to school there…
This has plagued schools like Duke, Vandy, Rice, Tulane, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, etc… for decades now.
Since FCS and G5 coaches are losing impact players are they better coaches at the end of the day since their doing the hard work of developing?
Some of the best Coaches in College Football History never coached at the Division 1 (or FBS) level…
Ken Sparks, Gil Steinke, John Gagliardi, Larry Kheres, Eddie Robinson, Pop Warner, etc…
And MANY of the D1 Coaches who are considered “the best” ever in Division 1, coached at lower levels on their way up.
So, in short…
Yes.They just didn’t get quite as much notoriety or get paid as much.
At the lower levels, a Coach HAS TO be a “player developer” in order to succeed, whereas, these days, Division 1 has a number of coaches who are getting increasingly lazier by over-relying on filling the rosters with the most top talent utilizing money and school reputation.
But I don’t think those guys will ever win a National Championship in Division 1.
i.e. Lane Kiffen. Deion Sanders, Steve Sarkisian, etc…
Time could still prove me wrong, but until it does, I’ll stand by my opinion.
Thank goodness the Coogs don’t have this problem.
That’s not to say Willie doesn’t rely on talent evaluation and recruiting, it’s just that player development is not an issue for him.
His challenges lie elsewhere, but he’s taking them on and overcoming them.
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