There’s more than one approach that wins games, both schematically and in recruiting.

The current SEC is good at illustrating that point, as the league’s 14 head football coaches harbor some very different recruiting philosophies and priorities.

We’ll point out some of the unique recruiting approaches and specialties of each SEC coach.

Nick Saban: Identify and target the best by using a meticulous filter

The Tide identify a “series of critical factors” at each position, be it height, speed, strength or other things, that a player must possess in order for the program to want him. It’s a detailed, pragmatic filter that helps the team target the best players in a nationwide recruiting effort.

Saban and Alabama did not invent the system, nor is he the only coach to utilize it. But he’s one of the most disciplined, detail-oriented, hard-driving coaches when it comes to recruiting, which makes him one of — or the — best.

Bret Bielema: Appeal to TEs and OL

The third-year Arkansas coach has turned recruiting offensive linemen into a full-fledged marketing effort. After Sebastian Tretola threw a touchdown pass in 2014, Bielema leveraged a sideline TV interview to say something like, “if you’re an offensive linemen out there, come to Arkansas. We’ll make you a household name.”

It almost felt premeditated.

The Razorbacks deploy two tight ends on almost every offensive snap, so Bielema stockpiles players at that position like a doomsday prepper collecting water and other life-sustaining supplies.

Gus Malzahn: Continue the ready-made assembly line of skill players

Tre Mason’s gone? Oh, here’s Cameron Artis-Payne. He’s gone as well? Have at it, Jovon Robinson and Roc Thomas. No more Nick Marshall? Jeremy Johnson, come on down.

Whether it’s via the JUCO ranks (Robinson, D’haquille Williams) or via a few years of post-high school prepping (Johnson, Thomas), Malzahn seems to always have some ready-made pieces to plug into his offensive system.

Next up: quarterback Sean White?

Jim McElwain: Reclaim the state of Florida

Particularly with offensive skill players, Gainesville no longer is in vogue as a college destination for prep football players in the Sunshine State. One of McElwain’s most important tasks, paramount in his quest to restore the team’s passing offense to prominence, is to disrupt that pattern.

“When you look from a historical standpoint, when Florida was really rolling, they controlled and had the majority of really good players out of that area,” McElwain said of Tampa specifically while speaking on a radio show in December.

“Obviously I’m a firm believer we are the University of Florida and it’s Florida first, then the rest of it’s second. We’ve had to go back in. We’re re-evaluating guys as we speak and making sure that we get the right fit and first and foremost with a player from the state of Florida.”

Mark Richt: Don’t stray far from home

Sure, Florida and Texas A&M have certain geographic recruiting advantages. Those states produce more FBS talent in aggregate. But I’m not so sure that any SEC coach has a better home-state bounty.

Those other locales get split between more major institutions, while UGA only has to worry about Georgia Tech. And the Yellow Jackets often aren’t competing for the same players, especially on offense, as the team runs the triple option.

Many years Georgia is No. 1 in the country at producing FBS talent per capita. Richt has pulled Lorenzo Carter, Nick Chubb, Leonard Floyd, Brice Ramsey, Quincy Mauger and many others from the team’s home state in recent recruiting cycles.

Mark Stoops: Take advantage of the proximity to Ohio

As of Wednesday morning, the official UK football roster includes 25 players from the state of Kentucky and 18 from the state of Ohio.

If Stoops remains the coach for a few more years, those numbers could flip. Again as of Wednesday morning, 11 of Kentucky’s 18 commitments from the 2016 class hail from Ohio compared to just four from The Bluegrass State.

Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Stoops has taken full advantage of his family name and connections there.

Les Miles: Play the dude at the bar with a great job and loads of confidence

LSU is a heavy hitter, and Les Miles knows it. I’m not sure if prep talents can smell the football pheromones, but the Tigers aren’t bashful about hitting up the best players in the country.

The team pretty well locks down the top talent in Louisiana, then goes after elite players in Texas, Florida and Georgia. Miles’ laid-back, goofy, homely persona helps, and he doesn’t seem too selective when it comes to personality types.

Dan Mullen: Rely on “athletes” and beef

Although Mullen and Mississippi State chased down a number of in-state JUCO players in the 2015 class, the program hasn’t relied on that wellspring as much as you’d think.

Instead, the team tends to load up on big, physical maulers on both sides of the line of scrimmage, similar to Arkansas under Bielema. Different than the Razorbacks, though, the Bulldogs seem to be obsessed with the oft-utilized recruiting designation of “athlete,” even listing 16 different players at the position on the team’s official roster.

Gary Pinkel: Locating three-star athletes with upside

Sure, Mizzou lands a Terry Beckner Jr. once every three years or so. But the Tigers, and Pinkel, take immense pride in being able to identify and develop all-conference players and NFL draft picks who aren’t necessarily at the top of the recruiting list for every football powerhouse.

Defensive ends Shane Ray and Markus Golden, for example — both coveted NFL draft picks this year — came to Mizzou as three-star players.

Some of the credit goes to the coaching staff for on-field development. But the Tigers do an excellent job searching for, and finding, players who are capable of major progress at the college level. Because no matter how good you are as a coach, not every three-star can become a first-round pick.

Hugh Freeze: Plumb the nation’s richest JUCO region

Ole Miss has picked up some tremendous high school players, especially in the 2013 class. Convincing multiple five-star prep players to sign with the Rebels every single year isn’t a sustainable model, though. Perhaps realizing that, Freeze has turned to the MACJC, where the best collection of junior-college football talent resides nearly every year.

This year, Freeze pulled CB Tony Bridges and QB Chad Kelly from that system, both of whom should be important starters for the Rebels in ’15.

Steve Spurrier: Steadfast interest in QBs and impatience with the rest

As competitive as Spurrier is on the field, he doesn’t seem to care all that much about recruiting — not next to Saban, Miles, Butch Jones and others. From afar, it seems that he outsources more of the recruiting workload than do his counterparts.

He does maintain a steadfast interest in quarterbacks, seeming to handpick at least one every year. As far as other positions are concerned, Spurrier seems understandably impatient. He could retire any year now, and if something on the roster needs to be fixed, he wants it fixed immediately.

We’re talking patch job rather than waiting to order the new parts, as the Gamecocks demonstrated by signing seven defensive linemen in the ’15 class.

Butch Jones: Marketing and the snowball effect

Perhaps it was a temporary strategy to expedite Tennessee’s growth and account for the team’s youth, but Butch Jones recruited a heap of early enrollees the last three years.

In addition, Jones is a college football marketing and social media savant. One branch of that tree has involved empowering early commitments to aggressively recruit for the Vols.

It’s a strategy that isn’t limited to Tennessee and has become more common with the community bond that’s part of the culture of today’s young standout athletes. But Tennessee has leveraged it as well as anyone, essentially hiring additional temporary recruiting coaches that also happen to be peers of those they’re recruiting.

Kevin Sumlin: Swag

Everything is bigger in Texas, right?

It’s with that cultural tone that coach Kevin Sumlin and the Aggies have approached recruiting. Between the Swagcopter, the #WRTS (We Run This State) hashtag and a thinly-veiled strategy of taking on the Longhorns for state supremacy, A&M’s efforts are braggadocios and loud.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s been effective, elevating the brand, promoting a sexy, fun offense and churning out players like Johnny Football. I’ve never been a high school football standout from Texas, but I imagine the vibe in College Station would be pretty appealing to someone in that demographic in 2015.

Derek Mason: Take what you can get

When he first arrived in Nashville, it seemed like coach Derek Mason would stick to what he learned at Stanford, prioritizing hard-nosed defensive linemen, offensive linemen and tight ends.

But instability hovers through every hallway and meeting room in the football facility right now. Mason went on a firing spree after the season, including both of his coordinators. His time as an SEC head coach may be short-lived if he doesn’t show improvement in the next year or two. As a result, it appears the program is being forced to resort to a “take what you can get” strategy.

The Commodores hold eight 2016 commitments from seven different states: Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, Oklahoma, Indiana, and London, Ontario. (OK, I lied. six states and one province.) None of the commitments rank in the top 500 nationally.