(03-16-2020 01:17 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 12:38 PM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 11:22 AM)82hawk Wrote:  

(03-16-2020 11:05 AM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  He's surely showing he's not afraid to recruit right along side the big schools, which is nice. Best case scenario he can talk one or more of these recruits into the immediate and lasting impact they could have at UNCW vs getting lost in the shuffle of All American talent loaded up at the big schools. Certainly shows his confidence. I like it.

McGrath made some offers of high competition recruits, but I never had confidence he could land them and he didn't.

In my opinion, a degree of fairness should be applied to McGrath in terms of recruiting. There were certainly some glaring holes and "WTFs" in his strategy, obviously the most egregious was a lack of bigs. However, there were/are some quite talented players brought in by his staff.

For sure. That's about the only thing i've given him "mild" credit for

McGrath could evaluate talent on the recruiting trail, I'll give him that. He found talented guys that were getting overlooked. Idk how he wasn't able to land a big but that hurt tremendously this season. However, I never understood why we weren't involved with JaJuan Carr's recruitment early. Right down the road and he was projecting a P5 or High MM player, get on him early and see if you can win him over. Siddle has come in and made a statement that UNCW is going to go after the top players in the state. People are already talking about UNCW recruiting, just search twitter. That wasn't happening when McGrath was here. If Siddle can land a couple of these guys, there is going to be a real buzz about us.