Al Golden is the right man for the JOB

[rok]

And we have a recruiter as our OC right now. Coley is no innovator. Let's see what he can do with Olsen/Kaaya but color me skeptical.

 

[Consigliere]

Projects:

D. Jones
Hope
Dortch
Armbrister
King
Tucker
Wells
Sunny
Hoilett
Figueroa
Blue


Now, before I get negged into bolivian, let me say that I appreciate this staff's ability to recognize and evaluate and find guys that fly under the radar. Recruting is it's own entity these days. These 5-star cats (for lack of a better term) all want to go to Bama, FSU, LSU, UF, Texas, USC, Oklahoma, etc. Golden has done everything in his power to make the U relevant again nationally. Now we need to use that newfound relevance and go get these 5-star savages so we can compete with, and eventually overtake Alabama.

If you are being honest, then speak and fark the neggers. Without debating the back and forth on each specific player, I will sum up my thoughts quickly.

Here is the bottom line, taking what you call "projects" are part of what Al does. In the end these decisions will make up how good and bad he does during his tenure. He will be evaluated by everything and this will be part of that evaluation. These kids will either contribute or not, will succeed and help the program or not.

Side note: I hate to break it to you, we're relevant nationally. I would prefer it NOW if we were more relevant locally (i.e. people going to our games). We may not be this elite team yet but it is hard with the dumpster fire that was left and the NCAA cloud that finally went somewhere else.

 

[DAU4life]

Why do you guys think Saban has the best defense every year bc he gets the number 1 rated class every year. Look at LSU's defense w/o MO clay, PP7, brockers, mingo, etcc. Did Chavous forget how to coach? Nope..

Saban has the best defense every year because he gets good players AND he's a defensive genius. Don't let the recruiting rankings fool and don't get it twisted, dude can coach his *** off and he's one of the most innovative defensive minds in the game.

No 1 is saying he's not a great defensive coach but if you don't think it's about talent then your crazy. He gets the number 1 class every year, how great did he do at MSU?

 

[umhurricano]

Per the redundancy thread, it's all about the nos 10-20 guys in the class. You have to assume you get 10 pro prospects per class or forget about competing on a national stage. We need 44+ TALENTED players to compete. You can usually count on only 3-4 freshman, that leaves 11+ guys per class that need to be almost pro level. A handful of teams can recruit that kind of depth and they typically win the national title.

We are in year 1 of that process, IMO. FSU was in year 4 or 5 of talented, deep classes, and it showed.

We used to beat pretty **** good FSU teams with terrible coaching because we had absurd talent. Talent most often trumps coaching in college football which is why vtech never beats top teams but always seems to win 8-10 games. If you have Alabama talent, which we are building but won't be there for a few years, coaching becomes about management, running the ball down weaker teams throats, and suffocating them with a defense that is bigger and faster.