What West Virginia was able to do today is pretty incredible. I've been doing this a long time, following it even longer, and can't remember an instance where a school lost their head coach and not only kept the majority of their commitments but added two more high-profile prospects with a lot of offers. The timing certainly helped here with an on-going dead period after Neal Brown was fired, but the majority of these players had very real and very good options elsewhere. That's a testament to the remaining coaching staff, as well as recruiting coordinators like Trey Neyer and Ken Signoretti, as well as the rest of the staff for working this very hard over the last couple days. This doesn't happen without effort. It's also a great sign that these prospects invested in the school and not just the coach. I do think it speaks to the power of the brand and the attractiveness of the school as well.
I said in the 3-2-1 this week that I truly had no idea how signing day would unfold this week and I was right. But I never expected this type of outcome and this class is pretty special considering that they stayed/came together under these circumstances. What a few days ago was potentially looking like the Mountaineers would be behind the eight ball, they are now sitting with 21 commitments and the potential to add even another back into the fold depending on what former commitment Evan Powell decides to do.
You didn't win them all and lost a few more you'd like to keep after the move, but all-in-all this turned out about as well as anybody could have hoped. Just look at the classes for the other power four schools if you don't believe me. I've seen a lot, I've never seen this.
Any way you slice it, West Virginia had a very good day but I do think it's important to recognize the effort to get to this point.
I said in the 3-2-1 this week that I truly had no idea how signing day would unfold this week and I was right. But I never expected this type of outcome and this class is pretty special considering that they stayed/came together under these circumstances. What a few days ago was potentially looking like the Mountaineers would be behind the eight ball, they are now sitting with 21 commitments and the potential to add even another back into the fold depending on what former commitment Evan Powell decides to do.
You didn't win them all and lost a few more you'd like to keep after the move, but all-in-all this turned out about as well as anybody could have hoped. Just look at the classes for the other power four schools if you don't believe me. I've seen a lot, I've never seen this.
Any way you slice it, West Virginia had a very good day but I do think it's important to recognize the effort to get to this point.
