Recruiting is often referred to as the "life blood" of a school's college football program. For those that are either geographically isolated or lack a rich tradition with which to sell to recruits out on the trail, recruiting can be an area that is hard to keep up with. Unfortunately for some schools in the conference of champions, they fall into this category and struggle to bring in the sorts of players that regularly roll through programs like USC and Oregon.
On this episode of Locked On Pac-12, Spencer McLaughlin is joined by John Garcia Jr., director of recruiting for Sports Illustrated. They take a look at the toughest places to recruit in the Pac-12 in part due to the aforementioned reasons above. For schools like Washington State and Colorado, it's much tougher to get the pieces to fall into place for a 10+ win season--it is possible, but recruiting difficulties are a major part as to why they don't happen very often. Cal and Oregon State also find themselves being programs where more often than not, the coaching staffs have to make the most out of generally inferior rosters.
Finally, they discuss the borderline disastrous situation in Tempe for the Arizona State Sun Devils and Herm Edwards. After the NCAA launched an investigation into recruiting violations, Edwards has no completely reloaded on assistant coaches and is searching for momentum on the recruiting trail--but lately is coming up empty. Luckily for the immediate future, ASU has had great success in the transfer portal, adding 14 players from other schools in 2022 while only adding 9 incoming true freshmen.
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