User1219 said:
Tadlock has one of the top recruiters in the country. J-Bob Thomas was named 2017 Assistant Coach of the Year. People come to play for him. He was at Howard JC in Big Spring and won the JUCO National Championship there in 09'. Record 63-1. Tim was the best recruiter in the country and everything I've read says he hired a guy who became the next best recruiter in the country. If we could land them or Vitello I would be happy. Guys come from all over to play for those guys.
Howard was loaded with former D1 players that year that they got because they'd hit up all the freshman that weren't playing right away at D1s. Kudos to them for doing it but I know it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. There was also a lot more going on as to how they got and kept those players.
They were a very good team that year. I pitched against them and they were easily the most disciplined hitters I faced all year. We were also the team that gave them that 1 loss on the year and nearly beat them again to go to Grand Junction. It would have been interesting had we made it because one of our starters had a torn UCL and I was loaded up on cortisone and ended up with a torn UCL a few months later.