Must read article about the Beaver coaches and recruiting

If you missed this article and are interested in how the OSU Coaches go about recruiting, read this. It's a great read in terms of recruiting strategy and about some of the new recruits and the coaches reactions to some of them.

Coaches sit tight on big day - Portland Tribune

At the top are the premier recruits.

“You have a couple of those, but you usually can’t spend a lot of time on them because the chances of getting them aren’t good,” Langsdorf says. “Then there are some middle to upper guys it’s going to be hard to get, but you have a chance for them, and there are more of those. Then you’ll have a baseline of guys you think you can get, but they have to be good enough to play in the Pac-10.

“You have to distribute your time and resources properly. If you waste too much time on the top guys you’re not going to get, you’re not going to get the middle or baseline foundation guys. There’s not an exact science to it. You have a group of guys you feel real good about, a group you’re not so sure, and you try to get the best of them. If there are four quarterbacks you like, for instance, and No. 4 is good enough, sometimes you decide to go after him. You don’t know if No. 1 is going to be there at the end.”

Cavanaugh says he tries to watch each of his prospects in person.

“I get out in the spring, when you get one academic evaluation and one athletic evaluation,” he says. “What you try to do is find a time to get to his school where he is practicing, so you can see him run and go through drills. If you’re the area scout, you’ve seen the kid, you pretty much know what he can do. Sometimes other coaches don’t like him, but all they’re seeing is (game video). The area coach knows the kid the best.”

Cavanaugh says he tends to go after the cream of the crop.

“We were in the dance with a couple of kids who went to SC,” he says. “It was early, and we got out of the dance quick. But I think our reputation is rising. More kids are considering us every year.”