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Todd Sibley a 4 star RB from Akron flipped to Pitt. If this type of things keep happening the Coastal is going to get a whole lot tougher.
 

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The coastal got better when Justin Fuente and Bronco Mendenhall took jobs here, in a few years we're going to see more SEC/ACC loaded Top 25's. A lot of quality coaches have come in.
 
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Pitt's coming boys...Coach is going to upgrade defense first, and bring up the offense in year two...
 
Kyle Liburd said:
pimpcane1 said:
Todd Sibley a 4 star RB from Akron flipped to Pitt. If this type of things keep happening the Coastal is going to get a whole lot tougher.
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He flipped because osu asked him to greyshirt
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Just as I suspected. No one "stole" him. He was backburnered. Someone is going to "steal" Bentavious Thompson from us too if things shake out the way I think they will at RB.
 
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pimpcane1 said:
The Franchise said:
Did he "steal" him like someone is going to "steal" Nick Roberts from us?
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No Unlike Roberts, Sibley is a highly ranked guy and wasn't going to get pushed out of the OSU class
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Keep Believing that if you want too.

ESPN 300 running back Todd Sibley says he is still committed to Ohio State, but he is starting to explore his options after the Ohio State coaches told him he would need to grayshirt, meaning his scholarship would be delayed entry until his spring semester of his freshman year.

Edit: Kyle already mentioned it.
 
Eh. I think the ACC Coastal has some really good coaches and will have those teams playing as well as they can, but the ceiling on these programs just isn't great. Pitt, UVA, VT, they will always be the 2 to 3 star athlete school with a few 4 stars sprinkled in. And you can only coach those types of players up so much.
 
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mossmadness said:
Eh. I think the ACC Coastal has some really good coaches and will have those teams playing as well as they can, but the ceiling on these programs just isn't great. Pitt, UVA, VT, they will always be the 2 to 3 star athlete school with a few 4 stars sprinkled in. And you can only coach those types of players up so much.
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No different from the vast majority of the sec or big 12 in particular. People never give the accar the credit they deserve. If the draft is the ultimate tell all then the facts can't be disputed...
 
MessiahChild said:
pimpcane1 said:
The Franchise said:
Did he "steal" him like someone is going to "steal" Nick Roberts from us?
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No Unlike Roberts, Sibley is a highly ranked guy and wasn't going to get pushed out of the OSU class
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Keep Believing that if you want too.

ESPN 300 running back Todd Sibley says he is still committed to Ohio State, but he is starting to explore his options after the Ohio State coaches told him he would need to grayshirt, meaning his scholarship would be delayed entry until his spring semester of his freshman year.

Edit: Kyle already mentioned it.
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I can't wait until we are so stacked with talent like that so we could also ask 4-star recruits to greyshirt for us.
 
Brooklyndee said:
mossmadness said:
Eh. I think the ACC Coastal has some really good coaches and will have those teams playing as well as they can, but the ceiling on these programs just isn't great. Pitt, UVA, VT, they will always be the 2 to 3 star athlete school with a few 4 stars sprinkled in. And you can only coach those types of players up so much.
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No different from the vast majority of the sec or big 12 in particular. People never give the accar the credit they deserve. If the draft is the ultimate tell all then the facts can't be disputed...
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Which is fine. The minority in the SEC don't worry about the "vast majority" of the SEC. Nick Saban doesn't lose any sleep over Miss. State or Vandy or Kentucky or etc. It's when you get a southern program, surrounded by big time southern athletes, and a coach capable of closing the deal on those southern athletes, that Saban takes notice. If UVA and VT want to split the 4 stars in VA (and they won't, the major southern schools will still cherry pick the best) that's fine with me. If they want to come down to Florida and fight it out with Duke for the players that we don't take, that's fine with me too. Just as it would be fine with Saban and Miles and company. Our ceiling is so much higher than theirs, that if they are beating us with what they have, it's only because we have a coach that isn't capable of getting us to our ceiling.
 
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mossmadness said:
Brooklyndee said:
mossmadness said:
Eh. I think the ACC Coastal has some really good coaches and will have those teams playing as well as they can, but the ceiling on these programs just isn't great. Pitt, UVA, VT, they will always be the 2 to 3 star athlete school with a few 4 stars sprinkled in. And you can only coach those types of players up so much.
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No different from the vast majority of the sec or big 12 in particular. People never give the accar the credit they deserve. If the draft is the ultimate tell all then the facts can't be disputed...
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Which is fine. The minority in the SEC don't worry about the "vast majority" of the SEC. Nick Saban doesn't lose any sleep over Miss. State or Vandy or Kentucky or etc. It's when you get a southern program, surrounded by big time southern athletes, and a coach capable of closing the deal on those southern athletes, that Saban takes notice. If UVA and VT want to split the 4 stars in VA (and they won't, the major southern schools will still cherry pick the best) that's fine with me. If they want to come down to Florida and fight it out with Duke for the players that we don't take, that's fine with me too. Just as it would be fine with Saban and Miles and company. Our ceiling is so much higher than theirs, that if they are beating us with what they have, it's only because we have a coach that isn't capable of getting us to our ceiling.
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Perfectly stated. Which is why I always say if UM is worrying about the GTs and UNCs and UVAs of the world, then we got the wrong HC again.
 
mossmadness said:
Eh. I think the ACC Coastal has some really good coaches and will have those teams playing as well as they can, but the ceiling on these programs just isn't great. Pitt, UVA, VT, they will always be the 2 to 3 star athlete school with a few 4 stars sprinkled in. And you can only coach those types of players up so much.
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Tell that to TCU or Baylor. Or even Mich St. Those schools are very good and they are not run with 4/5 start guys. I get what your saying. But to say that a great coach could not get one of those schools in the mix I think would be inaccurate. I think with the right HC it won't matter the name of the school. Just look at the job done at say Utah by Urbie. Or even Herman at Houston, they were in the top ten this year. Doubt they have a ton of 4/5 star guys.... Heck, or we can look at some of the teams we have fielded in the past 15 years. Those late 2000's teams had some really highly rated guys who didn't translate into much.... So, yeah it might make sense to keep an eye on some of these schools that have recently brought in quality coaches. Like Pitt with Narduzzi. That dude can coach.
 
frostycane said:
Tell that to TCU or Baylor. Or even Mich St. Those schools are very good and they are not run with 4/5 start guys. I get what your saying. But to say that a great coach could not get one of those schools in the mix I think would be inaccurate. I think with the right HC it won't matter the name of the school. Just look at the job done at say Utah by Urbie. Or even Herman at Houston, they were in the top ten this year. Doubt they have a ton of 4/5 star guys.... Heck, or we can look at some of the teams we have fielded in the past 15 years. Those late 2000's teams had some really highly rated guys who didn't translate into much.... So, yeah it might make sense to keep an eye on some of these schools that have recently brought in quality coaches. Like Pitt with Narduzzi. That dude can coach.
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TCU and Baylor are in the state of Texas. Yes, when you are in a southern state that produces power house talent, you can compete. Michigan State is a good program, helped out by the fact that they play a bunch of northern teams and Michigan being down. But you saw what happened when they played Alabama.
And it's not "inaccurate." College football has turned into a geographical game. If you aren't in the South, California, or one of about 2 or 3 northern schools capable of locking down all the northern talent and stealing legit talent from the South and Cali, you have no chance.
Look at us last year. That was maybe the low point of Miami football in the non-prohibition era since Howard took over. I mean, Al Golden was fired mid-season for a reason. And yet, did you watch us play Pitt, VT, and UVA? We were so much more talented than they were it's not even funny. And the reason is because our floor, isn't their floor. Our ceiling, isn't their ceiling. I don't care how good Narduzzi is, he isn't taking Northeast athletes and consistently dominating with them. That's an 8 win program, who might get to 9 or 10 wins once every 5 years when the stars align and they pull off an upset or two against the southern schools. That's not a knock on Narduzzi, that's just Pitt. That will always be Pitt.
 
Fair enough. However, your post had nothing to do with location of those schools but the level of talent they pull in. I feel that is inaccurate because some schools do have success with 2/3 star players. I agree with the south being a much stronger area for talent. I suppose you must have expected me to think that because you referred to VT, UVA, Pitt that you were referring to them because of the location of those schools? But I thought you just referred to them because they are in our conference.
 
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