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With all respect to you, I’m not arguing about any of this and what I’ve specifically taken issue with and how I’m going to respond to it is in subsequent posts to that in this thread.
Yep! From there it would all be on coaching!!
Gaby close to putting in a CB for Malone. Trending for Kirk as well.
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Ref Mardi Gras in May. A few weeks ago I spoke to a La Monroe coach who was out recruiting. He said they had just lost 3 players because of NIL. Told him I was a Miami guy…he did t too too thrilled and said us, USC, and TAM, are paying the most. Alluded to him having to comb Texas for talent to make up for losses. Thought it was an interesting perspective. He added that 23 years ago he went to a HC conference and the topic was a super conference of 50 schools…rest would be a lower tier. Felt NIL was similar to that.
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There are no Jordan Addisons hitting the portal without a **** ton of money in the works......and there's no reason for most teams to break the bank for 1 kid if the rest of the roster isn't ready to compete......which is why any kid like that, as you said, would not be in the portal without already knowing where they are going with an NIL already written up. USC has been backing the Brinks truck up for everyone to get that buzz going in LA and for this to be the year they compete.
Sure but we are talking about a kid that is 270 his first spring in college. Not always but more often than not that player’s weight will go up not down as he immerses himself into P5 S&C program.
Agreed.
Debate is fine. Criticism is fine.
But a lot of the negativity is lazy and based on "for the last 20 years" generalizations. Yes, Coker was weak. Shannon was paranoid. Golden had a blind eye for D'Onofrio. Richt was in the early stages of Parkinson's. And Manny thought he could fake it until he made it.
They all had flaws, some of them fatal. But it doesn't mean the last 20 years are irreversible, and people can use thoughtfulness and better analysis to see where things are being done very differently.
Superior AD. Support of the President. Far more resources.
Mario still needs to execute and deliver. He's been here for 1.5 years. He stumbled out of the box with Gattis.
My only problem with Mopers is that they ONLY see the bad. They can't pick out the positives and acknowledge them. Or, worse, allow anyone else on the board to acknowledge them without rushing into a thread to spread a thick layer of negativity.
And make no mistake, when I think about who has coached my alma mater for the past 20 years, I have to shake my head...Coker, Shannon, Golden, Garcia (yeah, I'm giving Richt a health pass)...who is the worst coach we have hired?
I used to think that until James Williams. I know Bain has made it clear he's a DE a few times though. Not sure if he will ever be a full time DT.
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Hey hey, now, let's not make any Slingblade Billy Napier excuses...
I trust that if Mario brought a dozen recruits to town, he had someone in the Athletic Department make reservations.
Meanwhile, the Gaytors are NOT having any recruits come on OVs this weekend, because they couldn't seem to compete with their own **** graduation weekend.
The difference is HS recruiting and talent influx. If anyone brings up class ranks of the past I dont want to hear it they were bad then and now. The type of kids we are getting would never play here under any previous staff. We are bringing in a different breed of athlete, this is the way we recruited back in the day when the rankings were a complete crap shoot. Pancake Francis etc would never play here in the past 20 years, and no way in **** anyone could convince me other wise. Things will work out in the long term, I cant wait to bring this sh up later when its starts working so those posters can never talk football or building a cfb team ever again. Its about talent acquisition and its always been like that.Agreed.
Debate is fine. Criticism is fine.
But a lot of the negativity is lazy and based on "for the last 20 years" generalizations. Yes, Coker was weak. Shannon was paranoid. Golden had a blind eye for D'Onofrio. Richt was in the early stages of Parkinson's. And Manny thought he could fake it until he made it.
They all had flaws, some of them fatal. But it doesn't mean the last 20 years are irreversible, and people can use thoughtfulness and better analysis to see where things are being done very differently.
Superior AD. Support of the President. Far more resources.
Mario still needs to execute and deliver. He's been here for 1.5 years. He stumbled out of the box with Gattis.
My only problem with Mopers is that they ONLY see the bad. They can't pick out the positives and acknowledge them. Or, worse, allow anyone else on the board to acknowledge them without rushing into a thread to spread a thick layer of negativity.
And make no mistake, when I think about who has coached my alma mater for the past 20 years, I have to shake my head...Coker, Shannon, Golden, Garcia (yeah, I'm giving Richt a health pass)...who is the worst coach we have hired?
If he misses this cycle and we dont get difference makers than yes it can fail. If he keeps on getting elite kids it will work period end of story.
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I also think Dawson will get a lot more out of what we have at WR. We could use help at WR but we’re building the trenches first by necessity anyhow. As I’ve said, I’d try Robbie and Ray Ray on the outside.
Really hard to judge how effective the WR's COULD HAVE BEEN last season due to the Gattis disaster. He had the entire offense ... staff and players ... under performing. Worst OC in the history of UM football and possibly all of NCAA football.
Yeah we know it’s not top tier but we can’t know exactly what we have off of the Gattis year.
