To understand what went on with recruiting the past couple of years you have to understand the past. Kramer was hired to fix our APR problem, a problem that was made worse by the terrible recruiting we had from the Zamberlin era. While Zamberlin had a couple of good players over his time for the most part he recruited Div. II talent. When he did get top talent they either transferred or became academic drop outs. What that left when Kramer came in was young undisciplined team. Kramer comes in, introduces discipline, begins to rebuild the offense through recruiting, then gives scholarship money to high academic walk-ons, most of them freshman to bring the APR up. It took 5 years before we could begin recruiting for defense with the money that had been given to former walk-ons. While the walk-ons improved each year with a couple becoming stars, Mitch Beckstead. It didn't change the fact we were not as athletic as other teams. With the past four years the defensive players recruited three and four years ago are now maturing. Instead of starting freshmen and sophomores we now will start juniors and seniors, this alone will make our defense better. We have almost twenty seniors on this years team and another twenty juniors, last time we had this we won the conference.
