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I expect you’re right about improvements. We already saw major steps taken in the Soring game.
Gattis was horrific, TVD played tense then got injured, his replacements couldn’t hit their targets, our OL was porous, Arroyo out for the season and our RBs so banged up that we had a walk-on getting legit snaps. So yeah, the WRs deserve a mulligan no doubt.
At the same time this is where I say plan for the worst hope for the best. We didn’t have one kid above 400 yards last season. All the above is probably the reason. But why not stack the roster more with guys who have already produced at a high level? that way you address the biggest risk on the roster outside of another TVD injury.
And what guys in the portal have already PRODUCED AT A HIGH LEVEL & more importantly at THIS LEVEL... The portal isn't some get out of jail free card. It benefits us POTENTIALLY in the short term and hampers the development of kids already in the program. No one seems to understand this. Not many kids at wr in the portal this year are worth all of that.
Yup.
And too many people are too salty over Mario's comment that "you'll see a completely different team in the fall". They think that means they'll see 85 new players, when the reality is you might see a completely different team made up partly of new players and partly of IMPROVED returning players.
But a lot of people hear what they want to hear.
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This is true but I think a lot of us know and have talked about not much in the way of WR in the portal. There are guys who would help but I’ll take Richards at CB over any of the WRs on the list.
So much talk about our talent level. Idk bout yall but I think our starters are actually pretty legit. Definitely top 2-3 in ACC level at minimum. If we land these portal guys we have a chance to be really great, regardless how last season turned out
I too have concerns about WR. I am expecting more of our "improvement/steps forward" to come from returning players, at this point (and barring a surprise development).
But I think with Dawson/Beard, if we had 2022 Zay Flowers considering the Portal THIS YEAR...I think we could convince him to come to UM. Last year? Close, but no cigar.
And I think our NIL bag would have pulled Innis if we had THIS staff when he makes his final decision.
Maybe. I’d like to think so but I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I think they’ll get more out of what we have and show a promising future on the field to start to move things in our direction.
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For the record, I said what I said about returning WRs not because they are so amazing, but because we may not have much of a choice in the matter. There's no Addison/Flowers in the Portal at the WR position. So we might have to just ride with the crew we already have.
I lean heavily towards Mario as I hope my posts have shown. But in this point I feel like Mario has had enough time to do better.
To answer your question directly, Franklin for sure adds talent to the WR room. Coleman adds talent to the WR room and even Henderson has more production than anyone on our roster with good go speed.
Oh I agree with that. I’ve been over the WR recruiting thing for the time being. I’m resigned to us not changing the story in recruiting that position until the season when Dawson can show otherwise. We need to build the trenches and wherever else we can get a footing.
Those guys would help but I wouldn’t expect it. And what’s with the Henderson’s and UM if this stuff is true that they asked us for a lot more money than they asked Cincy and Henderson would rather go into his money year catching passes from Emory Jones than TVD???
That’s a much tougher way to get to the league if that’s a real goal.
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There are no Jordan Addisons hitting the portal with no where to go already in the works. **** most of these kids with half the production have places in mind or a landing spot set up..I truly don’t understand what folks expect. At the end of the day, that room along with oline, Dline and DB need BODIES WHO CAN COMPETE. This idea that Mario wasn’t doing **** in the portal was always laughable
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Misery loves company haha
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Especially when what he meant by that is the undisciplined,soft entitled **** is out the window.
Did NYSOM take over this account? I've noticed an awkward trend recently.
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