In Reply to: Recruiting posted by BuscH on March 06, 2025 at 10:34:26
Cronin's top recruits as freshmen don't contribute a lot without an already great team.
Bailey and Bona have been CMC's best performing freshmen recruits, and neither was anything resembling a focal point as a frosh.
Watson, Perry, Mara, Berke would be his other top recruits off the top of my head. Berke the only one who got starts, and that's more because there was nobody else last year.
In the TP...
Juzang, Bilodeau, Kobe, Clark, Dailey, Stefanovic all started immediately as transfers.
Most of it is that incoming freshmen aren't ready to play defense at CMC levels, nor do they generally know how to avoid turnovers. A lot is also that CMC rarely develops freshmen to be ready. He has determined his starters by December and sticks with it - and this is good for some things, but not good for really developing freshmen.
IMHO. YMMV