some of these arguments make no sense. all his jags were in 2011. last year he got gilbert who was all big 10, corn and griffin who were all american caliber. We have two highly regarded busts in jelani and grimble. also, dequan ivory we flipped out of no where to us from louisville and was well-regarded. unfortunately, we only seem to get dt's who can qualify but are lazy. Our academics hurt us with Stuckey who is a beast and honestly, travonte might not be coming here because of his grades and just saving face.
More mental gymnastics here.........
Lets start with the first comment, we had plenty of jags in the 2012 class, that was the problem there, we were all hyped up about Al's evals and how he took all these unknown kids at Temple and made NFL players out of them. Now many have already left and kids like Larry Hope have been passed on by on the depth chart by true freshman like Corn. Corn is a stud and Griffin is mega stud, but the Griffin thing was all fools gold. The kid never ever had a chance to qualify, all one had to do is listen to the Texas teams' posters, they all said that while a true 5 star he could barely read and that they would bet the house that he wasnt ever gonna play major college ball anywhere. Gilbert was an honorable mention Big 10, talk about stretching the truth there...... Also Ivory was not well-regarded, he looked like a big kid that could play but he wasnt in anyway shape or form considered a top DT. The overall DT recruiting has been a massive failure all around. Yes even without TV we had a decent pull, but decent isnt good enough when struck out the previous 2 years. Then that last line and sentence, Stuckey is decent and would have helped us but you really gonna call a player that was basically FSU scraps a beast? Not even gonna touch the TV line.....
We are once again in dire straits with another staff, and as a Miami fan it just sucks. Hopefully Al turns it around, but right now there is zero ziltch on the table that he does....
