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There are some really good responses here. by KLav18

I think that what excites me most is that he HAS a strategy... or he is at least saying he does.
I have my own ideas as to what I would do in CA if I was in his position...because as somebody mentioned below, it will be hard to go straight up against UCLA (just one example) for a really elite CA. player.

It is my opinion that there are great baseball players everywhere. In the south and Ca, there are just more of them.

The part that sometimes goes unmentioned is the development part. None of this matters if the players don’t get better when they get to South Bend, or Corvallis, or Louisville, or Nashville etc...
That is the part (my opinion) has been incredibly deficient at ND for over a decade.
I can just speak from my experience... I have pointed 8 players (every single one of them went on to have great college careers) towards ND as HS freshman and sophomores. When I mentioned ND, they all were excited...at least their ears were open...parents especially.
2 of them were All Americans. 2 were 1st round Draft picks. None of the 8 got more than a letter. Zero of them got phone calls. All 8 of them would have been academic fits.

Recruiting at ND is hard...but it is really hard when you just admit defeat because the kid is too far away.

This is a good hire for ND. I’d like to think that he was hired to do more than recruit the Midwest.

On a related note...schools like ND need that 3rd paid assistant because he needs to TRAVEL (on an airplane) mid-week to recruit. That’s hard to do now...and basically be one short back home for development purposes.