What is most important to you in a recruit?

[Dingaan1828]

Highlight tapes are fun to watch. But like others have said, you should look good in plays cherry picked for the tape.

I like to watch as many FHSAA football finals as possible. I want to see these top prospects for an entire game against top competition. Without mentioning names, a couple of guys on our current roster turned me off after seeing them play a whole game. If you are a top prospect, you shouldn't become invisible in games like this.

 

[OldhamA]

Highlight tapes are fun to watch. But like others have said, you should look good in plays cherry picked for the tape.

I like to watch as many FHSAA football finals as possible. I want to see these top prospects for an entire game against top competition. Without mentioning names, a couple of guys on our current roster turned me off after seeing them play a whole game. If you are a top prospect, you shouldn't become invisible in games like this.

In all seriousness though, who has the time to watch full games of our recruits? I barely have the time to watch Miami and Carolina play each week.

 

[PresaCane]

Someone who wants to be great
Great work ethic
Ability to make those around him play better
Wants to be a Cane
High Football IQ
Ball Hawk
Physical
Speed
Great at their role when it comes role players

 

[JerseyCanes]

Talent
Football IQ
Has the Dog in him
Measurables in certain positions

JC

 

[Coach Macho]

1. Highlight film. Even with just a few clips you can see how much explosiveness a kid has (first thing i look for). Sometimes a kid will pop off the tape and you really don't need to see any thing more. Also can give you a good indication of their competition and size.

2. What schools they hold offers from is key to. If they don't hold offers from a feeder or home town school, this is usually a red flag. Either they're garbage, or there's some other issues going on (grades, psycho, etc.) that they know about that others don't or will soon discover.

Not that I disagree with you but...here's the grey area with both of those...

1. He may pop off the screen athletically, but it's a HIGHLIGHT tape. There's kids out there who show great ability for a few snaps a game but are irrelevant and make zero impact for the rest. However, I'm aware of the fact that college coaches just wanna see ability and they believe that they can coach up any kid who has it.

2. I don't think you can apply this rule to South FLA kids. Just because a South FLA kid doesn't hold offers from UF, FSU, UM, etc...doesn't mean he's not a stud. There's 203,320,012 Division-1 recruits in FLA. Not all of them will receive offers from the likes of UF/FSU, especially South FLA kids, as UF/FSU usually only come down here for the elite kids. There's South FLA kids who didn't receive offers from UF/FSU who could easily play at Miami and help us greatly. A kid may not have offers from UF/FSU but he'll have offers from Clemson, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan, etc. (other top-25 teams) That kid can likely help Miami.

Now, if a kid doesn't have any offers from top-25 schools then I'd consider it a red flag. Golden was a huge fan of signing kids who's offer list had Akron, Western Michigan, etc.

I hear you on [URL=https://www.canesinsight.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 [/URL] , but some things -- like burst for example you can't fake on a highlight tape. It's hard to mask a lack of athleticism even if you are cherry picking your best plays. You look at a guy like Deejay's tape, and you see a gear that others simply don't have. You are right tho, coach, in that you have to remember these guys are picking their best plays, so you always have to keep that in the back of your head, as well as who their highlights are against. You see some of these guys highlights from one game against squads like American or Goleman -- automatic deduction.

Spot on with #2 in regards to South Florida. Guess I didn't think about that. Golden and his crew were such losers, they barely made contact w guys like Jeudy and we're forced having to play catch up with cats in our own backyard.

I've seen kids intrigue scouts after the first 2 plays from their highlights, so you're definitely right about #1 .

We had a coach from Vanderbilt (was actually an ex-UM coach) show up to recruit one of our skill kids. (RB/WR)
He watched 2 whole plays from his tape and said "**** coach, this kid can play WR, RB or Safety. Where he at? Let me meet him!" LOL
Offered him on the spot.

Good ol Coach McGriff.

Randy was a clown, but he actually had some gems on his staff.

McGriff was cool as **** and you can tell he didn't see eye-to-eye with Randy. We had a little discussion about how he tried to tell Randy that RayRay Armstrong was a Linebacker but Randy insisted that he could play Safety. McGriff goes "Mannn that boy couldn't tackle me in the open field! How he gone play Safety?!"

 

[Coach Macho]

Highlight tapes are fun to watch. But like others have said, you should look good in plays cherry picked for the tape.

I like to watch as many FHSAA football finals as possible. I want to see these top prospects for an entire game against top competition. Without mentioning names, a couple of guys on our current roster turned me off after seeing them play a whole game. If you are a top prospect, you shouldn't become invisible in games like this.

Agree 100%. A top prospect should never be invisible/irrelevant during a high school game.

 

[Tony Perps]

**** size.

 

[maurice3p]

If Alabama, Ohio state, USC and other big name schools want him, chances are he's good.

 

[JgDaCane]

1. hog pics
2. see 1

 

[Dingaan1828]

Highlight tapes are fun to watch. But like others have said, you should look good in plays cherry picked for the tape.

I like to watch as many FHSAA football finals as possible. I want to see these top prospects for an entire game against top competition. Without mentioning names, a couple of guys on our current roster turned me off after seeing them play a whole game. If you are a top prospect, you shouldn't become invisible in games like this.

In all seriousness though, who has the time to watch full games of our recruits? I barely have the time to watch Miami and Carolina play each week.

Well, where I live the games are on live. Then, they are replayed later. Between that and the DVR, I pretty much watch them all.