Quote from: D3fanboy on September 12, 2022, 03:26:49 PM
I'd agree with that. The weird thing is Mount isn't region centric in recruiting. It'd be one thing if Mount was scooping up every decent D3 recruit in OH, IN, MI, etc but Mount pretty much recruits nationally. It'd be great in another "local" D3 program built themselves up and wasn't all talk (i.e. BW)
I haven't paid close attention lately but 10-15 years ago the perception (and seemed to be true) was that Mount would get all the good "recruitable" kids in Ohio AND recruit nationally. They would bring in 150 kids and didn't really care if the Ohio kids panned out or not or ever got to play, but if they came to Mount that meant that they didn't go to the other OAC schools.
This is similar to the tactic Woody used at Ohio State back in the days before scholarship limits. He'd take all the Ohio D1 talent knowing that more than half of them would never see the field for him but they'd also not play against him.
Another factor is that there are more D2 schools in Ohio now and it seems that a lot of kids who in the past would have ended up at Cap, Otterbein, H-berg, ONU, etc are looking at Ohio Dominican, Ashland, Tiffin, etc. They all want to be able to say they're "on scholarship" even if they're just getting $500 or their books covered. They want that photo of them signing their LOI to post on social media.