Greg Goff on the recruiting trail

[rebelboi]

These past two or three days just trying to get 2015 and 2016 recruits on campus with unofficial visits as they are traveling through, just trying to get them to come and introduced ourselves to those guys and try and show the vision we have for the program and really try and get guys aware and we want Louisiana Tech to be an option for them,” Goff told The News-Star on Wednesday.“A lot of those guys may have some offers already, but we’re just trying to get in a recruiting war with everyone else.”
Two of the offers went to local Ouachita Christian School products Jake Slaughter and Aaron George.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...cruiting-trail

[LoneStarTechie]

As he is making his rounds I am hoping he is visiting with Ryan Reynolds Shane Reynolds son. I believe he is at Ouachita Christian.
Ryan is a great two sport player in both baseball and football

[Loftonbranch]

I know a rising senior from North La. who is a .500 hitter and multi-year All-State pick. He wants to visit the school. Anyone have the email address for Coach Goff?

[Rooster]

I know a rising senior from North La. who is a .500 hitter and multi-year All-State pick. He wants to visit the school. Anyone have the email address for Coach Goff?

ggoff@latech.edu its on the athletic directory website

[Loftonbranch]

Thx Rooster

[Eagle]

Ryan Reynolds and Shane Reynolds were out of town when Slaughter and George were on campus. Reynolds was on campus Wednesday and offered.

[Eagle]

All three boys work and hang out together non stop

[RXDAWG]

Would be nice to pick up some local talent!

[PawDawg]

Would be nice to pick up some more local talent!

Fixed

No need to pick up guys w/out ever looking at them.

[TrueBulldog1962]

I love that Coach Goff is on the recruiting trail, and nothing against the kids from OCS but in all reality small school kids just don't face the competition that is necessary to succeed at the Division 1 level. Pitchers succeed far more than hitters, a good example from the area is Braden Bristo, but he is gifted as an athlete like few I've seen that have ever been in this program. Small school position players on the other hand, stay away. I've seen far to many of them fail.

[maverick]

I love that Coach Goff is on the recruiting trail, and nothing against the kids from OCS but in all reality small school kids just don't face the competition that is necessary to succeed at the Division 1 level. Pitchers succeed far more than hitters, a good example from the area is Braden Bristo, but he is gifted as an athlete like few I've seen that have ever been in this program. Small school position players on the other hand, stay away. I've seen far to many of them fail.

Depends on the kid, depends on the school--until there's evidence to the contrary, I'll trust our coach to discern. Slaughter is another private school kid who's apparently the real deal.

[TrueBulldog1962]

Depends on the kid, depends on the school--until there's evidence to the contrary, I'll trust our coach to discern. Slaughter is another private school kid who's apparently the real deal.

I can agree with you to a certain extent, multiple examples from just the Shreveport area is pretty evident. Bronson Gilliam failed at Arkansas, then Tech. Jeff Harvill, who was drafted out of high school failed at Arkansas, Connor Castellano failed at Vanderbilt and cant get on the field at TCU. Kids from Shreveport that played at the highest high school level that have succeeded include Taylor Love from Byrd who happens to be our best player, Chase Daughdrill an All-Louisiana selection from Airline has found a great deal of success at Northwestern State, Austin Ross from Captain Shreve who succeeded at LSU, Ben Alsup from Ruston who succeeded at LSU, Chris Cotton who played at Byrd also succeeded at LSU. Those are just a few. I'm not saying lower level high school kids can't succeed, but they are way more apt to fail than a kid who has been challenged at the highest level in high school. Do kids from 4 and 5A schools fail? Absolutely, but the competition change is still a much smaller adjustment and makes the talent assessment much easier. We have got to stay away from the kids who have the so called best "bodies" and start going after the best baseball players.

[theprofessor]

I love that Coach Goff is on the recruiting trail, and nothing against the kids from OCS but in all reality small school kids just don't face the competition that is necessary to succeed at the Division 1 level. Pitchers succeed far more than hitters, a good example from the area is Braden Bristo, but he is gifted as an athlete like few I've seen that have ever been in this program. Small school position players on the other hand, stay away. I've seen far to many of them fail.

Yep, Mark Laird is a small-school position player (coincidentally from this very same OCS program) who is just a failure waiting to happen.

As is the case with much of life, you need to look at things on a case-by-case scenario. There have been plenty of small-school players who succeeded. One from my area here is J.C. Holt, who played at Class B Oak Hill before becoming a star at LSU and spending eight seasons in the minors, rising all the way to AAA. Yeah, he was terrible.

[LABulldog]

Yep, Mark Laird is a small-school position player (coincidentally from this very same OCS program) who is just a failure waiting to happen.

As is the case with much of life, you need to look at things on a case-by-case scenario. There have been plenty of small-school players who succeeded. One from my area here is J.C. Holt, who played at Class B Oak Hill before becoming a star at LSU and spending eight seasons in the minors, rising all the way to AAA. Yeah, he was terrible.

Good points. Shane Reynolds, another OCS graduate, is one that very much succeeded!

[TrueBulldog1962]

Yep, Mark Laird is a small-school position player (coincidentally from this very same OCS program) who is just a failure waiting to happen.

As is the case with much of life, you need to look at things on a case-by-case scenario. There have been plenty of small-school players who succeeded. One from my area here is J.C. Holt, who played at Class B Oak Hill before becoming a star at LSU and spending eight seasons in the minors, rising all the way to AAA. Yeah, he was terrible.

You're taking what I said the wrong way? I never said small school kids could not succeed. I said big school kids are more apt to succeed than small school kids. If I'm a coach I'm going with the surest bet which is a kid who has played at the highest level of competition. I loved Laird coming out of high school, told Sim many times to go after him, but he didn't and it has cost us. Although we will never know he could have given Laird's scholarship to Love and to me that was a fine trade off. All I'm saying is that I'll always put my money on a kid who has had big school success over a kid who has had small school success regardless of size and stature.