Cullan and Ybarra are studs, no doubt, and I am happy they have chosen to be Hawks. They are not at the top of their own weights or near top 10-20 PFP though. While I could see having to “settle” for a 30 or higher PFP at some weights, I don’t see how we aren’t able to get the top guys at the light weights. Robbie Howard should have been begging to come train with TnT and the guys in our room. I can see where there are some circumstances where the wrestler wants to stay with the home state school, closer to home, some school seems to be a better fit, rich uncle will only pay if they go to school B, etc. It seems like the vast majority of lightweights choose a different school though. We still get the lower ranked kids, coach them up and they frequently AA and beat the kids that were higher ranked out of high school, but it sure would be nice to start out with the top dog and coach him up to be a multiple time NCAA champ rather than a multiple time AA. It is frustrating that we struggle to recruit the lightweights.
Of course getting Spencer was a huge coup. And getting DeSanto and Renteria to see the light and transfer after initially not choosing the Hawks has been great. Getting top ranked kids out of HS should seemingly be easy, but unfortunately, that has not been the case.