I've had the same thoughts on Denver Kirkland since the spring. He's a guard...he's a bit of a reacher...but...
Ain't no way I'm not taking Dade's #1 offensive line prospect...if he's got grade problems, you send that kid down the Green Mile to prep school n I'll see ya in 4 months. But you don't let the kid go to Ole Miss or USF. That's silly.
Exactly, which is why something weird happened. Since when do we give that much of a **** whether a kid qualifies to pull his offer? We signed AJL knowing he had serious grade issues and sent him to prep, but we wouldn't send Kirkland to prep?
I've seen weirder **** at this University over the past decade and seen and heard "fans" justify it...
I use my quote-fingers there because these "fans" rationalize and agree with some truly detrimental decisions over the past decade.
I'm on record as saying of these 8 or so big local recruits we need to land on Signing Day (Thomas, Collins, Grace, Bostwick, Chief Keef, Rashad Robinson, Kirkland, Coley), we need to land 6 or 7...no excuses and Thomas, Collins, Coley, and Grace are imperative gets...no excuses. Basically, I give this staff a small pass on Keef because he's a bit of a fruit pop (or a genius, I'm not sure yet) and the staff got on Robinson late and they obviously recognize that mistake...but everyone else should be dominoes falling. This class was small and they needed to focus on such few guys, failure to land the big fish of the class, that are all in our back yard (OOS recruiting wrapped up for this staff in December for ***** sake), we must sign these guys.