252cane
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It seems like Kool likes projects or small target recruits. It's all he's known having only coached at Toledo and Mizzou. Maybe he'd rather take a low maintenance personality with a high motor and good measurables over someone who many think is close to a finished product.
DJ Johnson and Joe Jackson were the most regarded recruits he's gotten and both had a fairly quiet recruiting process. I know there was some talk of Nesta taking visits but I think that was just a product of people freaking out over nothing. Not a lot of drama amongst DL recruits.
If it ain't broke don't fix it. I have no worries about what the DL will look like next year. Neither should you.
DJ did not have a quiet recruitment lol...he took his visits and there were countless rumors about him and a few west coast schools.
The guy is a great coach but you're just rewriting history to make his recruiting this year look better. He went after highly sought after guys (Vincent, Trout, Davis, etc.) but got beat out. He's still after Thompson who is a top 100 prospect but he appears to be a long shot as well.
Given his credentials, the production on the field, and the school he's recruiting for, I'd say his recruiting here so far has been underwhelming: Jackson was already committed prior to his arrival, Johnson apparently has Cane family and actually contacted him, and Silvera/Garvin just needed offers.
With the very likely possibility of losing the top 3 DT's on the team this year, a three man class including Goldwire (coming off knee injury; competing against Louisville, Oregon State) and Carson (project) isn't the amazing haul some are trying to make it seem.
The kid took some visits. Kool flew out and locked him up. I consider that a pretty quiet recruiting process when you compare it to a lot of the other big time DL prospects we've gone after. It seems like you just like to critique Kool by saying he's recruiting a bunch of nobodies and discredit any of the big time recruits by saying they would have come here even if we didn't have Kool.
Deep breaths homie. We good.
Didn't Kool land Sheldon Richardson? That wasn't a quiet recruitment
Kool didn't land him