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Andrew Chatfield Talks Recruiting After Opening Regional

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grover said:
If it make you feel any better, that's probably the only projection I got right over you sitting in my comfy armchair while you're out on the field coaching. I think I bat around 67%, and that's after allowing CIS to screen out all the chaff. You bat like 85%+ filtering from the raw masses, which is Butch level.
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Yea i seen alot of chatfield up close....and every time i saw Rousseau he was a gangly kid trying to play wr or safety. He didnt seem physical.....and Chatfield and Burns were terrors off the edge for AH.

Projection wise i didnt see what Rousseau had and the ceiling on Chat.

I still think Chat may become a double digit or close to guy in the right scheme.

@RattlerCane305 can tell you as well...he can play. He's similar to Deandre Johnson who we have right now...just not even close to the freakish projections of Rousseau
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
Isn't he the guy who posed in pictures with his fat dad wearing the Gaytor uniform?
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Weird timing. Everyone is pretty much set and ready to go with their depth charts with the season starting this week. Seems like an emotional decision to me. Nothing worse than an emotional male making emotional decisions.
 
gogeta4 said:
Yea i seen alot of chatfield up close....and every time i saw Rousseau he was a gangly kid trying to play wr or safety. He didnt seem physical.....and Chatfield and Burns were terrors off the edge for AH.

Projection wise i didnt see what Rousseau had and the ceiling on Chat.

I still think Chat may become a double digit or close to guy in the right scheme.

@RattlerCane305 can tell you as well...he can play. He's similar to Deandre Johnson who we have right now...just not even close to the freakish projections of Rousseau
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The kid can play. It's not a case of him being a bum. I would've thought he'd hit the portal earlier in his career but like the write-up said he was coming on down the stretch last year. Had a sack and a TFL in the Sugar Bowl too. The right fit and he can get drafted. You only missed the Rousseau evaluation because you didn't see the kid being 280, maintaining his athleticism and adjusting to the trenches. It happens, there are guys who coulda been Rousseau and didn't pan out...
 
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RattlerCane305 said:
The kid can play. It's not a case of him being a bum. I would've thought he'd hit the portal earlier in his career but like the write-up said he was coming on down the stretch last year. Had a sack and a TFL in the Sugar Bowl too. The right fit and he can get drafted. You only missed the Rousseau evaluation because you didn't see the kid being 280, maintaining his athleticism and adjusting to the trenches. It happens, there are guys who coulda been Rousseau and didn't pan out...
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Right. Chatfield isn’t a guy without talent, he’s very talented, but that injury made him fall behind in the pecking order
 
dirtyred786 said:
Weird timing. Everyone is pretty much set and ready to go with their depth charts with the season starting this week. Seems like an emotional decision to me. Nothing worse than an emotional male making emotional decisions.
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G5 might take him and or a school like Liberty
 
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Can this man be as good as Trent Harris?

If so I’d give him a look…


A “take your *** on down the road, gata” look. :reaction:
 
Cane4life18 said:
I liked Yearby more than I liked Calvin Cook coming out of Central. It happens bro. Lol
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It happens often.
During the early 1980s everyone was talking about these two LBs at South Miami HS, but it was Keith Carter who got most of the accolades and recruiting attention. Carter ended up at fsu and didn't play much whereas the other South Miami backer, Derrick Thomas, ended up at Alabama and....we all know the rest of the story.
 
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dirtyred786 said:
Weird timing. Everyone is pretty much set and ready to go with their depth charts with the season starting this week. Seems like an emotional decision to me. Nothing worse than an emotional male making emotional decisions.
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Before the portal, this was a time when lots of kids would transfer. They would see where they stacked up on the depth chart after fall camp, then take the red shirt and transfer.

But given the bottleneck in the portal, I think he’s going to struggle to find a power five team that has room.
 
zeeblet01 said:
Me too lmao. I was like "Yearby has better vision and Cpok just outruns everyone... he will not be able to do that in college"... well I just drafted Cook 2nd overall in my fantasy league lol
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Funny....I only saw a bit of the two in some bigger games that I was able to see on a stream or maybe one of the ESPN channels...so I didn't see a lot. And I don't consider myself a particularly great judge of talent or x's and o's. I knew Yearby started ahead of Cook. I watched both, but there was something I saw in Cook that I just didn't see in Yearby.

Cook was just draw-dropping to me...it was a hold-your-breath moment every time he got the ball. He would take the ball deep in the backfield and wait for a hole to open...once there was that lane, he was gone. He was a threat anytime and every time he got the ball. I saw the same thing in college.

I would've taken Cook over Yearby any day of the week.

Just my reaction. Like I said, I didn't see as much of Central as you guys probably did. I just know my reaction...and how Cook scared me whenever we played FSU.
 
TheMatador said:
Funny....I only saw a bit of the two in some bigger games that I was able to see on a stream or maybe one of the ESPN channels...so I didn't see a lot. And I don't consider myself a particularly great judge of talent or x's and o's. I knew Yearby started ahead of Cook. I watched both, but there was something I saw in Cook that I just didn't see in Yearby.

Cook was just draw-dropping to me...it was a hold-your-breath moment every time he got the ball. He would take the ball deep in the backfield and wait for a hole to open...once there was that lane, he was gone. He was a threat anytime and every time he got the ball. I saw the same thing in college.

I would've taken Cook over Yearby any day of the week.

Just my reaction. Like I said, I didn't see as much of Central as you guys probably did. I just know my reaction...and how Cook scared me whenever we played FSU.
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Yeah when he got to FSU I realized I was wrong and we ****ed up
 
MedleyCane said:
It happens often.
During the early 1980s everyone was talking about these two LBs at South Miami HS, but it was Keith Carter who got most of the accolades and recruiting attention. Carter ended up at fsu and didn't play much whereas the other South Miami backer, Derrick Thomas, ended up at Alabama and....we all know the rest of the story.
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Miami wanted Keith Carter badly. He went to FSU, and as I recall, he did virtually nothing. My FSU friend told me the coaches felt he was too stiff.

Now, think about how Jimmy Johnson approached guys similar to Carter. (And BTW, I think it was more mid-80's, because I think Carter was being recruited by JJ, not Schnelly). Jimmy, who was very very astute about such things, probably saw that drawback in Carter and envisioned him as a future 4-3 DE, much as he did with Darren Krein. And probably other DE's. (I think Danny Stubbs was already on the team when JJ came in, perhaps as a LB, but he ended up with his hand on the ground. There was another LB, a transfer who played for us in '84 and '85, and I think his last year, '85', he was also a DE.) [EDIT: That player was John McVeigh, a Columbus kid, I believe. He transfered back home from Kentucky. He was one of two starting LBs on the '84 team, along with Bruce Fleming. The next year, when he was a senior, McVeigh was a DE.]

I think Keith Carter would've been a future DE for Johnson. Just speculation.

ADDENDUM: I just checked, and Keith Carter was definitely in the 1985 recruiting class, so he would have been a target for JJ's first recruiting class. (The 1984 class was recruited by Schnelly before he left). Although I have no information--I'm just speculating--JJ could easily have seen Carter as a future DE.

I don't remember that much about the era when it comes to FSU, but Carter was a highly recruited guy who didn't do much at FSU.

Here's an article on the 1985 FSU recruiting class. They did bring in some studs. A better class than we had in '85.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/s...-helped-change-fsu-football-history/31006681/

Were Keith Carter and Derrick Thomas at South Miami at the same time? I don't even know if we recruited Derrick Thomas...something makes me think we didn't.

EDIT: Did some more research and I found that Carter and Thomas were on the same South Miami team for the '84 season. They were both recruited as part of the '85 class. This article confirms that Carter was the more celebrated player and probably much more heavily recruited. Whether UM was interested in Thomas, I would think we should've been but I wouldn't know. It was much harder to follow recruiting back then and I had not yet met some of my future friends who were very much in the know in the late '80's and beyond.

https://miamisouthpaw.blogspot.com/2011/02/south-florida-legend-derrick-thomas.html
 
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