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Coach Speak: Dugans and Banda break down yesterday's scrimmage

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calinative umstudent said:
I really dislike the fact that Finley, Knowles, and Langham are getting talked about so much. They really were not good last year.
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I’ll absolutely agree on Knowles and somewhat on Langham but can’t really agree on Finley. He didn’t really play enough to say he was good, bad or indifferent.
 
Torocane said:
I’ll absolutely agree on Knowles and somewhat on Langham but can’t really agree on Finley. He didn’t really play enough to say he was good, bad or indifferent.
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I think Langham did everything asked of him last year. I don’t remember him dropping any passes thrown his way. Also he had some great catches against Ga Tech and obviously FSU.
 
BeastMode said:
I think Langham did everything asked of him last year. I don’t remember him dropping any passes thrown his way. Also he had some great catches against Ga Tech and obviously FSU.
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Langham was ok. He disappeared a lot and made a few great plays.
 
BeastMode said:
I think Langham did everything asked of him last year. I don’t remember him dropping any passes thrown his way. Also he had some great catches against Ga Tech and obviously FSU.
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Naw he dropped a few critical 3rd down catches I remember towards the end of the season(last 3 games) . Not many, but I would say two they were like 3rd and 7 and we were driving type of drives.
 
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ThomasM said:
I remember when MJ was an Al Golden special. He's come a looooong way.
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Michael Jackson was a 4star by at least one site, had offers from Miami, clemson,LSU plus others so he hardly was a golden special. Also was said to be the best player in the Alabama Mississippi state highschool game
 
brock said:
Michael Jackson was a 4star by at least one site, had offers from Miami, clemson,LSU plus others so he hardly was a golden special. Also was said to be the best player in the Alabama Mississippi state highschool game
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Man I remember the talk at the time. It was mostly negative. It was partly because he wasn't from SFLA, and partly because of who recruited him. Seems like Saban wasn't interested, so why was Miami?

Now, had Golden and the defensive guru that played prevent D at the goal line against GT still been here, he doesn't develop into the player he is today. He benefits greatly from Manny Diaz's attacking D.
 
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reg said:
Hightower is consistently the first name out of each offensive coach mouth when they are asked about the freshman receivers. Clearly the spring game was not an anomaly. Hightower, Pope, and Harley as backups.........****.
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Add the possibility of Evidence living up to his immense potential and we have a once every generation type WR group.
 
Best interviews I have read all year. You can tell those responses were dedicated to the people of CIS so someone on that staff is reading this board. Maybe a GA.

People want Gurvan Hall to just "learn on the job" but ill be damned to sacrifice big plays and breakdowns just to get him out there. Amen to Banda. If the kid doesn't know what hes doing, I don't want him out there. LSUs offense is horrible. We don't need to give them any "breakdown in the secondary" easy TDs.

The "waiting your turn" comment was great. Nobody knew Jaquan outside of south florida until probably the 4th game of the season last year. Now hes on everyone AA list. He had to wait his turn. Nobody is beating out Redwine and Jaquan for there jobs. Amari and Gurvan need to prove that we can trust them. And its high time we lay of Knowles..if Banda says hes ready, then hes ready.
 
calinative umstudent said:
I really dislike the fact that Finley, Knowles, and Langham are getting talked about so much. They really were not good last year.
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I don't agree with you on Finely because he's playing a new position, so I have no preconceived prejudices about his ability or inability to flourish there.

On Knowles, I think our coaches are talking him up in order to motivate some of the younger guys like A. Carter and Hall and to stress the importance that they place on doing your homework in the film room and knowing your assignments and being disciplined. I think they want those two to understand that there's much more that goes into developing into a great player than just simply having blazing speed or being highly athletic.
 
Distructobot3000 said:
I don't agree with you on Finely because he's playing a new position, so I have no preconceived prejudices about his ability or inability to flourish there.

On Knowles, I think our coaches are talking him up in order to motivate some of the younger guys like A. Carter and Hall and to stress the importance that they place on doing your homework in the film room and knowing your assignments and being disciplined. I think they want those two to understand that there's much more that goes into developing into a great player than just simply having blazing speed or being highly athletic.
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The Finley comment was ridiculous. He's barely played and nobody knows what he's gonna do in 2018.
 
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Distructobot3000 said:
I don't agree with you on Finely because he's playing a new position, so I have no preconceived prejudices about his ability or inability to flourish there.

On Knowles, I think our coaches are talking him up in order to motivate some of the younger guys like A. Carter and Hall and to stress the importance that they place on doing your homework in the film room and knowing your assignments and being disciplined. I think they want those two to understand that there's much more that goes into developing into a great player than just simply having blazing speed or being highly athletic.
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I think there is legitimacy to Knowles being talked up. Even Ed Reed was saying how far he has come back in the Spring. He gets killed on this board, but the truth is we needed him for depth the first couple years of his career. He could have gone to FIU or FAU & been a more important guy to those teams, but he sacrificed a bigger role to be a Cane & I respect him for it.
 
ShadowSpring said:
The Finley comment was ridiculous. He's barely played and nobody knows what he's gonna do in 2018.
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The coaches who see him in practice every single day probably have a pretty good idea what he is capable of doing in a game. I trust them and am ready & willing to ride with whoever they think is best.
 
ThomasM said:
Man I remember the talk at the time. It was mostly negative. It was partly because he wasn't from SFLA, and partly because of who recruited him. Seems like Saban wasn't interested, so why was Miami?

Now, had Golden and the defensive guru that played prevent D at the goal line against GT still been here, he doesn't develop into the player he is today. He benefits greatly from Manny Diaz's attacking D.
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Do agree with the second part for sure
 
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ShadowSpring said:
Banda seems like a bright guy. I know folks are down on him sometimes, but it'll be interesting to see if he can get some improvement out of a guy like Redwine. He's green but I think he's got potential.
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Agree and I don't get it. I can understand some not being happy we hired basically a first-time assistant rather than a proven guy with a proven name in recruiting, but he's done a **** good job imo. First year he takes 2 guys who hadn't done a **** of a lot in Jamal and Jenkins, and they give us incredibly solid and dependable (borderline great) safety play. Last year he's dealt 2 new starters and JJ has a phenomenal year, while Redwine does "OK" while playing safety for the first time.

Recruiting-wise he's been solid. Signed our top targets each of the first 2 years in Carter and Gurvan, along with some others. No he doesn't get 'em all but I think he's done a helluva job considering he's going up against the best recruiters in the biz without much of a resume to fall back on. What more can we ask of him?

Side note, I think it's more of a Canesinsight phenomenon. I spend most of my time on another board (one where you spent many years, if I remember right), and you don't see any criticism of Banda over there really.
 
ShadowSpring said:
Banda seems like a bright guy. I know folks are down on him sometimes, but it'll be interesting to see if he can get some improvement out of a guy like Redwine. He's green but I think he's got potential.
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wont be down on him when Quan goes 1st round and redwine goes by the end of day 2
 
calinative umstudent said:
I really dislike the fact that Finley, Knowles, and Langham are getting talked about so much. They really were not good last year.

KrazyCane said:
You dont like the fact that they are getting "talked about so much" lol CIS logic
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On a Effing Message board where all we do is talk about every possible scenario in the off season.
 
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