The House of Blue

Loving this hire more and more.. let's just hope he can totally revamp our secondary.

Me too.

Mike's recruiting area's or strongest are Ohio, Fla, W Ky. He coached at Paducah Tilghman back in the day in the 70's-80's.
I also believe he was key in recruiting for UL and Illinois in the Ohio-Illinois-midwest area. He has connections to Fla as well. I think if you are UK than you have to get 3-4 prospects from Ohio every year, maybe not the one's Oh St wants but the one's Cincy, Mich St, WVU, Mich st. covet. I think you also have a pretty good nucleus of recruiters in Ga which I think is and should be number 2 on our list. Recruit guys not that Ga or Fla wants but get in on the kids UNC,WVU, Va TEch, Ga Tech, get the 6-8 guys who are good enough for these programs and not get in the fray against homestate bulldogs. Ga produces in my opinion better prospects than anyone, not the numbers of Fl or Texas but the players are almost always good. Do the same in Fla and get in on some guys that the big 3 aren't involved in and battle the UNC's,WVU's, Pitt, Va Techs of the world.

I have always thought UK should hire a guy that can recruit New Jersey-Philly area. Pitt had a guy on staff that wrapped up a ton of the top talent in Jersey. Most don't have allegiance or like college but they want to come south and play in the next step to the NFL. UK should step out of the box since it looks like they have a pretty good Ga-Fl-Bama recruiting staff. Cassitty will hopefully help with the inexcuseable lapse in Ohio recruiting. Probably need one more guy there.
IMO

I think I might concentrate a little more on southern Virginia than northern, specifically the Hampton Roads area (Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Hampton) because there is an enormous amount of talent here.

Here is a link for Hampton Roads recruiting.

247 sports notes regarding the players listed in the link:

1. Eli Harold **** DE, ATH
2. Kwontie Moore LB, not in 247 database
3. JC Coleman **** all purpose back
4. Anthony Cooper **** WR,
5. Rhakeem Stallings, LB NR, several offers
6. Mike Tyson, OLB (DB in link) NR , several BCS offers
7. Courtnye Wynn, **** DT several BCS offers
8. Alston Smith *** DT, committed to VT
9. Der'woun Greene *** WR, S, ATH, multiple BCS offers (VT commit)
10. Mark Hall *** OLB, UV commit

I think that should give an idea how loaded this area is. I am disappointed that some of the guys rated near the top are either not rated or not even in the database here.

Romp you live over there? I live in Emporia. West on 58.

Thinking about it now I believe we have talked about this before. Here everybody is a redskins or dallas fan but they root for VaTech.

Joker has talked about how he wants to get into Ohio but never had anyone with the connection.....now he has one. Also, he's talked about getting into Florida a little bit more. Great hire.

never had anyone with connections to Ohio? you mean someone who was head coach of the college located in Cincy for about 10 years, someone like that?