poncho0091
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So for all the hype Golden gets on recruiting, why is he struggling to recruit top RBs considering he's recruiting out of one of the best areas in the country for good rbs? This is not to bash him, but just want to know people's thoughts, because even under the cloud, there are 2 areas we should not have depth issues in, wr and rb.
In the first class, I'm not blaming him because of the circumstances of coming in at the end of the season with little to no commits. Crawford, our backup rb was recruited as a db.
Class 2, he got Duke, but Duke would have come regardless of the coach. He was all cane even if we didn't have a coach. Golden had a solid class in this year, but somehow failed to pull in a second solid rb considering Miller was likely leaving in a year or 2, Mike James was gone in a year and really the only competition was Duke. His only other rb recruit was Dillard who was not going to be a threat to any rb that was decent, in a class where we signed 33 recruits and 5 WR (5 WR in one class is not quite necessary when we had much bigger needs imo).
Class 3, he left Florida to recruit Gus Edwards (not impressive so far, but he's a freshman) and ray lewis III (which we dont really know anything about yet) at rb. How is it in a year when we knew Duke would be our only major rb, that he could not sell serious PT to a solid RB from miami? Yes we got negative recruited, but as many solid RB's as the area produces, we couldn't get anyone to commit?
Class 4, We are currently looking at signing only 1 rb total in Yearby and while he is solid on paper (4 star) he is a bit smaller, but we'll see how he does on the field. We have depth issues and in this class, with the playing time that is potentially available to a new rb, and the cloud is over, so there is no excuses of recruiting hindrances this year, why is it that Golden can't pull another good rb. All of the uncommitted ones seem to be leaning elsewhere. Unless Golden has a silent ready to go, then it looks like quality RB depth will continue to be an issue. Even Shannon was able to get good RB's fairly easy it seemed. RB's were falling into his lap. He probably didn't really have to recruit them very hard.
Thoughts?
In the first class, I'm not blaming him because of the circumstances of coming in at the end of the season with little to no commits. Crawford, our backup rb was recruited as a db.
Class 2, he got Duke, but Duke would have come regardless of the coach. He was all cane even if we didn't have a coach. Golden had a solid class in this year, but somehow failed to pull in a second solid rb considering Miller was likely leaving in a year or 2, Mike James was gone in a year and really the only competition was Duke. His only other rb recruit was Dillard who was not going to be a threat to any rb that was decent, in a class where we signed 33 recruits and 5 WR (5 WR in one class is not quite necessary when we had much bigger needs imo).
Class 3, he left Florida to recruit Gus Edwards (not impressive so far, but he's a freshman) and ray lewis III (which we dont really know anything about yet) at rb. How is it in a year when we knew Duke would be our only major rb, that he could not sell serious PT to a solid RB from miami? Yes we got negative recruited, but as many solid RB's as the area produces, we couldn't get anyone to commit?
Class 4, We are currently looking at signing only 1 rb total in Yearby and while he is solid on paper (4 star) he is a bit smaller, but we'll see how he does on the field. We have depth issues and in this class, with the playing time that is potentially available to a new rb, and the cloud is over, so there is no excuses of recruiting hindrances this year, why is it that Golden can't pull another good rb. All of the uncommitted ones seem to be leaning elsewhere. Unless Golden has a silent ready to go, then it looks like quality RB depth will continue to be an issue. Even Shannon was able to get good RB's fairly easy it seemed. RB's were falling into his lap. He probably didn't really have to recruit them very hard.
Thoughts?
