.. I think it just means he may not be an immediate impact guy, but, he's got the tools to do something down the road.
Plus, another kid in the TX pipeline, heckuva a lot of players coming from down there these days and Houston area is certainly no exception.
I think we are going to have to get used to this strategy, betting on having 4-6 upper classmen every year that have developed. It's kind of a "mid major" approach, but it seems like it could work, particularly given the steady increase in talent in Texas.
I believe this is the approach many around here advocated with Frank after it became clear he wasn't landing any more Beasley/Walker types. Or even McGruder/Judge types. However, he kept taking flyers on ridiculous transfers. I didn't mind the D1 kids that needed a change of scenery because he hit home runs with Clemente and Kelly, but the fridge JUCO kids were annoying. I hope oscar doesn't try to go that route and continues landing 3 star types, hopefully most are Top 150 guys. I'd hope we can land some 4 star kids once in a while as well. IMHO you can win that way if you build the right mentality into your program.
With oscar, I don't think the highs will be as high, but I don't think the lows will be as low. I think, on average, it will be a steady stream of 100-200 ranked kids.
I'm interested to see what happens with the 2014 class. This isn't a bad class, all things considered, when they've been working on relationships with these kids for five months or less. Unless you're one of a handful of coaches, you won't just step into a non-traditional powerhouse and recruit a high four-star or five-star kid without laying the groundwork on a relationship (or that's my belief, anyway).
UW pointed out that we're really swinging for the fences in 2014. My guess is that for 2012, oscar took what he could get, for 2013, they tried to get some "good", and in 2014, they're going for "great".
This was kind a strategic class, IMO. Two Texas kids (one from the Metroplex, one from Houston), one from Indiana (where we seem to be hitting it hard), and we're hitting the prep schools with Atewe and Patterson (who has Indiana ties). It may not have been designed that way, but it seems to be working out that way.