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I'm curious what the defense looks like during practice, they getting torched by the scout team as well?
Don’t know how they look now but I was told they looked great in the spring….
This might just be the way of the world now.
In the last 5 drafts we've had 15 players drafted. 9 we recruited out of high school, 6 were transfers.
It's not like we've been doing great at any position group (TE & DL would be the best)
But of course just getting SFL players like Tyrique Stevenson & Jaden Harris out of HS vs transferring home would be ideal.
In the last 5 drafts we've had 15 players drafted. 9 we recruited out of high school, 6 were transfers.
It's not like we've been doing great at any position group (TE & DL would be the best)
But of course just getting SFL players like Tyrique Stevenson & Jaden Harris out of HS vs transferring home would be ideal.
I agree. I saw enough of Damari Brown to feel very encouraged. We need to recruit and develop more players like Damari and OJ because we always need depth.
Defense looked so good, Emory Williams was the favorite to start next year at QB, then after the last 6 weeks — “intense portal QB search” passed him on the rail
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people I trust around the program think highly of him.
The same people that think brown isnt an NFL talent(barring injuries), are the same people that constantly trashed Ivey and said he wasn’t going enough to make it to the NFL. It’s the same group of people that called for Kitchens’s head all season last year
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But are they the same people that thought there was enough defensive talent in the secondary to not upgrade?
Right? Of all the places we could and should struggle, DB (and RB/WR) is not it.
Maybe good by no where near very good. When you need a play who can you reliably feed? X been getting blanketed. Horton is sluggish with his size and is more of a box out use your body type of wr. No one in this wr core scares defenses and no one can consistently get open vs man coverage. We have a wr core that thrives attacking space in zone coverage...teams have figured that out and started to play more man. Results not so impressive as Cam holds the ball and waits for some one to uncover over and over.
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Oh I recall lol, but curious if it's night and day now.
It so bizarre. Every power 4 team seems to have at least one solid DB from the Miami area, EXCEPT Miami.
Part of the problem was prioritizing "elite" prospects well beyond the point where it was apparent we were going to finish 3 or 4th, at best. Then predictably, we were too late jumping in on kids already committed to UL, Pitt, MSU, Ole Miss. USCa, etc.
DB is the most apparent currently, but this has been a problem across several staffs are all South FL money positions-- CB, S, WR, RB, DE, and LB.
Coaches felt that if their Plan A thru D targets were top 200 players they were doing their job. While that's partly true, it overlooks our real bread and butter, which is south FL kids who outperform their star rankings in college.
There are literally so many kids down here who lack some elite measurable, that they just get slapped as a 3 star and the services move on, but the kids on field production is out of hand. Those are the kids we're supposed to be signing too.
Part of the problem was prioritizing "elite" prospects well beyond the point where it was apparent we were going to finish 3 or 4th, at best. Then predictably, we were too late jumping in on kids already committed to UL, Pitt, MSU, Ole Miss. USCa, etc.
DB is the most apparent currently, but this has been a problem across several staffs are all South FL money positions-- CB, S, WR, RB, DE, and LB.
Coaches felt that if their Plan A thru D targets were top 200 players they were doing their job. While that's partly true, it overlooks our real bread and butter, which is south FL kids who outperform their star rankings in college.
There are literally so many kids down here who lack some elite measurable, that they just get slapped as a 3 star and the services move on, but the kids on field production is out of hand. Those are the kids we're supposed to be signing too.
Great points about DB recruiting, draft & overall talent. Unfortunately, it’s a discussion for another day. The issues right now aren’t just DBs. They’re as simple as the defense getting lined up - DL & LB - not getting out flanked, containment & tackling. It’s not a talent question limited to a specific position group.
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So Al Golden is a better recruiter and a better talent evaluator than any HC we’ve had
Mario was supposed to clean up on recruiting.
Well it’s starting to show that talent evaluation and development might be more important
Mario was supposed to clean up on recruiting.
Well it’s starting to show that talent evaluation and development might be more important
The Legend of Damari Brown around here is hysterical.
He had 14 to tackles last year, zero int's and zero passes defended. I hope he turns into an All-American for us, but based on his play to date he's an unknown.
I remember someone who was Krazy said Joe Yearby was better than Dalvin Cook.
That having NFL talent in the back end would improve our play isn't an interesting point to me. Of course it would. A water is wet type of observation.
But we don't have NFL talent, let alone 1st, 2nd or 3rd team All-ACC talent notwithstanding Mario's purported roster building skills (with the possible exception of OJ).
You've eliminated it as a point of discussion in this thread but to me the only interesting discussion given our play on defense is why teams with arguably even less talent in the back four are playing meaningfully better defense than us.
If we're not going to add future NFL talent to the roster, as has been the case since Mario's been here, what do we do? Just accept that our defense will be terrible? Or figure out what SMU, UVA, UNC, VT, etc, etc are doing on defense with non-NFL talent that we don't seem capable of doing? This is the only interesting topic, at least to me.
