I don't even think that was right. I think that was the argument given for him getting a scholarship when he wasn't actually recruited. Maybe he ran track for a season. But he was supposedly a football player and he didn't stick around and run track. Where'd he end up?
I was just making a Randy Shannon joke. No idea about him.
I think jail but not positive. ill look it up.
Anderson sits at the Lorain Correctional Institution.
28 year old Cane fan here... not sure I buy the whole we didn’t have classes full of elite recruits back in the day. I just think that their was a lot more hidden gems that we found because we are located in the most talent rich area in the country for football.
Yuup that is correct
I wrote this on the old grassy recruiting board ages and ages ago. There are a limited number of kids each year with the potential to become first round picks/high round picks. Very limited if you look locally. Our staff’s job is to get their share of them. Fail and we won’t be winning titles. Don’t care how they do it. Doesn’t matter. Diamonds in the rough, local 5* kids, 4*s evaluated right, whatever. Get them or don’t. Win or don’t.
Ehh. I could debate that all day. Plenty of our kids who became monsters here are probably relatively average in most other spots. Just like plenty of kids we've had recently could be monsters in the right spots while they've been good to average here. But #1 absolutely does come down to evaluations... No shadow of a doubt on that. But we've been dead on with plenty of evaluations over the last few staphs yet have failed to get peak results out of them for numerous factors. Some coaching, some competition, some favoritism, some mental approach, grades, etc. Tomatoes to tomotoes hermano. We're basically saying the same thing. If all we do is go after blue chips were basically discarding our own ability to evaluate and saying all we can do is go off of a national and local scouts evaluations instead of our own. That'll be a real bad day when we finally admit that.
post on this site in recent memory. Miami found hungry, underrated players, developed them and then complimented that with some elite talent. We didn't have rosters full of 5 stars. Some of the underrated players turned into studs equivalent to a 5 star, but even the ones who didn't were solid contributors. The solid (non elite) played smart football, didn't make mistakes and inevitably one of the elite playmakers would have an opportunity to make a game changing play.
Im assuming y'all talking bout latawn anderson. Aka tmac 2.0 that boy would've been the truth. But he couldn't even come close to getting out his own way. Kid had four known robberies here over the course of a year and one of them was the assistant to shalalalaalllalalalalalalalalalalla. Needless to say that boy wasn't staying around here. Lol
One of the most intelligent posts I have seen here, ever. I have been saying this in posts for years. We were NOT stacking chips during the JJ era. People that say that have no idea what the true history is. JJ said he’d rather not take a blue chipper who never gets better; instead, he’d rather take a kid with potential and a burning desire who gets better every time he steps on the practice field.
You're giving staphs, ours in particular excuses they aren't paid for. Yes social media has obviously made the recruiting land scape very different. However it hasn't changed at all a individuals ability to evaluate our own kids and coach the kids we do land up properly... You feel free to look at the numbers year in and year out and see how many all americans,all conference kids in p5,early round draft picks etc are all blue chippers... Sheer numbers alone show you that's simply not possible. I'm in the music field primarily but I'm still very well established in that world as well. I have far too many kids reach out to me daily or kids families with stories that would make you sick brother. Evaluations aren't going anywhere any time soon. Rankings are based primarily upon a kid and his families financial ability to get in front of camps,scouts and coaches. TONS OF FAMILIES FLAT OUT CANT DO THAT... So while it's not as common to find diamonds in the rough,that's not because they aren't present. It's because most coaches and lazy *** recruiting coordinators would rather sit in their office to establish targets based upon clips and camps rather than get out in the field & trust their own eye. It's largely due to the fact they prioritize their recruiting budgets elsewhere and have devalued the information received from high schools coaches and the network they've built up throughout the years. You don't believe me feel free to ask any high school coach who's been around that same length of time u speak on.
Didnt know about the robberies. What a mess.
You're saying (whether you realize it or not)two separate things though. I'm not talking about their talent levels. That's not what he was discussing. We were talking specifically about their rankings. That's what blue chip means. The high 4 and 5 star kids... And again whether you buy it or not THATS NEVER BEEN US. we would get some of course. But that was the minority and a big one at that rather than any majority. We'd have a **** ton of us that were under rated kids who we all got around each other and developed due to our peers and our coaches that actually knew football and what it would take to get us from being hungry to being dogs. Period. It's not even debatable. I was one of them.
For anyone that wants to argue that fact it's real simple. Or atleast I'll make it simple Dan morgan,Vilma, ray, warren, ed, sean... Do I really gotta keep doing this? I can go on and on. We developed whatever we got and made us all the best possible version of ourselves. Simple. Some of the best ever PERIOD. Fvck just here. Period, EVER IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL,COLLEGE,NFL , weren't blue chips at all and they became ICONS right here under coaches most of y'all steady talk **** about...This is the most correct
Good example this year is Flagg + Phillips . Flagg is a solid LB, cerebral, takes good angles but somewhat limited athletically . Not likely going to make game changing sacks or INTs but he's the type of player who throughout the game helps with hidden yardage. Instead of 2nd and 4, the offense is consistently in 2nd and 8 because he tackles well on first down . Because it's 2nd and 8, the opposition tries to pass and then an athletic freak like Philips sacks the QB or tips the pass so another player gets an INT. The solid player and elite player work in tandem. Miami doesn't need a #1 class and 22 5 stars to build a championship roster.
He is in prison now
Just curious who all these lowly recruited high school guys are? As a younger Canes fan I realize I may just not know.
