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Sorry I didn’t answer your request for a link but the thread was locked before I could answer. Did you get to see it?
RT - Transfer --- Francis Mauigoa (6'5 330) --- Matthem McCoy (6'6 310)
RG -Transfer --- Anez Cooper (6'6 340)
C - Javion Cohen (6'5 315) --- Jakai Clark (6'3 310)
LG - Jalen Rivers (6'5 325) --- Jonathan Denis (6'3 320)
LT - Zion Nelson (6'5 320) --- Samson Okunola (6'5 315)
My opinion, you bring in 2 more plug-and-play OL from the portal, make Maui and Honcho EARN the snaps. Yes, I do think they could start right away. Very different bodies than Nelson or even Ereck Flowers as a true freshman. But we saw that starting freshmen too early hurts their development (Flower, Henderson, Donalsdon, McDermott). IMO, it would be a win/win and much better to bring them along more slowly.
08 was still wild wild west internet days. So I def wouldn't count 08 as the internet era. I miss 08, now everybody and their mother on this *****
Start Pancake and Francis day one bookend Tackles fuq seniority
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Kinsler might be the most under ranked player in the class. Dude is absolutely enormous and he is pretty athletic and not carrying bad weight. He’s a big time recruit in his own right.
I'm not arguing seniority, I am saying we get more out of them if we make them earn it, and ease them in.
He's like Collins. Not enough snaps to rank him more highly. But the sky is the limit. Both could be Day 1/2 kids if they bloom. Just high beta.
I say play them. Show kids if u a baller u will play
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“Technically” w/o hindsight being 20/20 & knowing what we know today, the 2008 class was #1 overall, after a 5-7 2007 season. But, of course if 247 had the updated parameters as they do now, that 2008 class would most like be a top 10 class vs. a top 3 or better yet, #1.
What’s going today is not just Ruiz; it’s the fact that Mario is one of thee best recruiters in the game. His transparency is infectious & viable, and he’s got the ultimate sales pitch any coach can have today: hope for the future. It’s exactly how Saban turned around a dreadful 2007 season, after a failed NFL career; it’s how the greater majority of coaches after yr 1 r able to have that bump yr. Mario can easily point to his accomplishments as a player, as a GA, as a AHC at Bama, as a HC at UO, & the players that he personally recruited or coached that got drafted & say, “Hey, this is what I’m building here…look at these plans for the campus, look at this 3 yr goal, 5 yr goal, 8 yr goal, & u r apart of that goal.”
The idle, complaining fan who lives in misery don’t recognize that; fortunately for me, I’ve had plenty of lil homies & relatives recruited. I’ve been on campuses, I’ve been apart of their conversations, I’ve seen them commit to some places that made total sense, & others that made no sense. I gotta lil homie right now, at a high profiled CA school who I just talked to & he’s thinking of going somewhere I don’t approve of, b/c they sold him & his mom PT, a future, a community to grow his NIL.
That’s y I don’t get shook at the rah rah news. I fully trust Mario in this dept; he’s been around some of the best coaches to ever do it. Now other things, like clock mgmt & his OC, yeah….but, not recruiting.
If your the best, yes. It's Mirabal's and Mario's job to find upperclassmen that will be better than them Game 1, and make them beat them out.
They were talking about us likely getting a major flip and that we were going to get a ton of hate for it.X saying something about Rashada may visit again this weekend
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That doesn't have to be Rashada though.
Greatest commitment ceremony ever!
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I know Rashada is a **** and we probably aren’t even trying but can you imagine how demoralizing that would be for the gators lmao
Say want you want about Mario on gameday but man can he recruit. It’s not just the bags although that plays a big part. Mario has a history of being a tireless and relentless recruiter he enjoys what others like Lispy hate.
If you don’t commit on building the hogs up front nothing else matters.
If you don’t commit on building the hogs up front nothing else matters.
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Oh they gonna see a title. The Portal is gonna make it happen. Major surgery we are doing now, can see results like USC who did that last offseason when we didn't
