Serious question.....Raymond is looking at a severe tarnishing of his reputation, is it better for him to say "eff it" and become an analyst for a year?
Probably. He needs to have "differences of opinion" in late December, so that they can't fully pin this recruiting class on him.
I mean, look, I've already posted lengthier versions of this. But seriously, WHAT IN THE FVCK did the Gaytors fans expect from recruiting:
Billy Gaypier - did NOTHING impressive in recruiting anywhere he worked before Alabama (one year at SC State, fired from Clemson, one year at Colorado State with McSharkfvcker). I've already provided the screenshots proving Gaypier DID NOT recruit Tajh Boyd at Clemson. Then Billy worked under Mario for 4 years and benefited from Mario's SoFla recruiting connections. After that, one year at Arizona State and a few years at Louisiana. WHERE IS THE LONG HISTORY OF RECRUITING ACUMEN?
Corey Raymond - Acknowledged. Awesome. Ace.
OC Rob Sale - ONE YEAR as a position coach at an SEC school. ONE YEAR at Arizona State. The rest of the past decade is G5.
Co-DC Patric Toney - Zero-point-zero years as a coach at ANY Power 5 school. Ever. For his entire career.
Co-DC Sean Spencer - Six years as a position coach at Pedo State, 3 years as a position coach at Vandy. The rest of his TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CAREER is outside of the P5.
RB Coach Jabbar Juluke - ONE YEAR as a position coach at LSU and ONE YEAR as a position coach at Texas Tech. The rest of his TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CAREER is outside of the P5.
WR Coach Keary Colbert - Four years as a position coach at his alma mater, Southern Cal, not retained by Lincoln Riley. No other P5 position coach experience.
OL Coach Darnell Stapleton - Zero-point-zero years as a coach at ANY Power 5 school. Ever. For his entire career.
TE Coach William Peagler - Two years as a position coach at Michigan State. No other P5 position coach experience.
OLB Coach Mike Peterson - Six years as a position coach at South Carolina. No other P5 position coach experience.
ILB Coach Jay Bateman - Three years as a position coach at North Carolina. Five years as a position coach at Army. The rest of his TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CAREER is outside of the P5.
To sum up...BESIDES Billy Gaypier and Corey Raymond...the other NINE position coaches have a SUM TOTAL of 32 years in the P5 (and a quarter of those 32 years were spent at Army and Vandy). That's an average of 3.5 years of P5 experience for NINE COACHES.
It's basically Billy/Corey and the Nine Dwarves, at least when it comes to recruiting blue-chip players.
I have no idea how the Gaytors fans expected anything different (out of recruiting) than what they are getting. This is what happens when you hire 9 horrifyingly unqualified coaches to a Flagship University in the SEC.
Billy Gaypier is NOT the ONLY Gaytor coach getting stuffed into a locker on the regular...