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Judd Anderson over CJ Bailey?

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I understand that these posts are annoying, but I do love to live in the past.

Can someone smarter than me please explain why Miami didn't pursue CJ Bailey until late in the process? I get that the throwing motion was weird and he didn't fit the traditional mold. But he threw for 9,000 yards at one of the best high school programs in the country and now is lighting it up for a bad NC State team.

I've got no idea what Judd Anderson may or may not become down the road, but he certainly was a bit of a "project". Just feels odd that Miami didn't try to keep the best quarterback in South Florida home until it was already too late.
 
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MikeyCanez said:
I understand that these posts are annoying, but I do love to live in the past.

Can someone smarter than me please explain why Miami didn't pursue CJ Bailey until late in the process? I get that the throwing motion was weird and he didn't fit the traditional mold. But he threw for 9,000 yards at one of the best high school programs in the country and now is lighting it up for a bad NC State team.

I've got no idea what Judd Anderson may or may not become down the road, but he certainly was a bit of a "project". Just feels odd that Miami didn't try to keep the best quarterback in South Florida home until it was already too late.
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How about hindsight is 20/20. There will always be misses. There will also be hits on guys like Anez Cooper who Mario and Mirabal found on the trash heap at the end of the cycle who has turned out to be an NFL player.

***** about the defense- its justified to an extent.

When it comes to talent acquisition, we will miss on some guys but we will be top 10 year in year out and often top 5.

Let Mario cook.
 
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3FW said:
Judd is a better QB.
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No.

But….the staff liked Judd’s upside. I think CJ was actually hurt by playing with Smith and Trader. The knock on him was that he was just a goofy passer who got bailed out by two elite receivers and an overall elite team around him. Turns out he’s actually pretty decent and was way more ready to contribute than Judd. For the record, I was really against ignoring a local project quarterback to chase an out of town, bigger project quarterback but I’m not Shannon Dawson. At this point, it is what it is. Not going to get too upset about it but this staff needs to prove it can hit on someone at quarterback.
 
dycane said:
Bailey looked horrendous in the two games I watched. At best, I came away thinking he was a major project.
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He started coming around against Cal and then of course Stanford. If I'm an Nc State fan I'm happy what we got cause the way the season started for them it looked like NC State and FSU were fighting for the bottom of the ACC.
 
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Cylo said:
He started coming around against Cal and then of course Stanford. If I'm an Nc State fan I'm happy what we got cause the way the season started for them it looked like NC State and FSU were fighting for the bottom of the ACC.
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I was talking about high school. I could see why we passed at the time. He was throwing literal lob balls.
 
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DTP said:
No.

But….the staff liked Judd’s upside. I think CJ was actually hurt by playing with Smith and Trader. The knock on him was that he was just a goofy passer who got bailed out by two elite receivers and an overall elite team around him. Turns out he’s actually pretty decent and was way more ready to contribute than Judd. For the record, I was really against ignoring a local project quarterback to chase an out of town, bigger project quarterback but I’m not Shannon Dawson. At this point, it is what it is. Not going to get too upset about it but this staff needs to prove it can hit on someone at quarterback.
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I think this was really well said. No problem with taking a project quarterback but if so, take the local one, especially if you think it will help with the best receiver recruit on the planet.
 
You raise a great question for this post. I asked the same question. I like CJ. I Saw him play in high school and he has exceeded my expectation at NC State. He is not the only exceptional freshman from South Florida that we missed, and there is a whole CIS thread about many of the top PFF freshmen from South Florida who we didn’t recruitl.

However, even when the Canes were winning championships in the early 2000s, there were future NFL players from South Florida that we didn’t recruit. It always happens. Although Mario wants the best recruits from South Florida, he is always going to miss the three star recruit that no one realized will develop and excel in college.

The key is that Mario continues to stack top 10 classes regardless of where the recruit plays high school. The foundation for Mario’s recruiting class may be Florida, but the scope of recruiting class will always be national, with highly ranked recruits.

IMHO, we will never get them all, so we need to focus on who we actually got to commit because we have some great talent to build the program around
 
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