Why did We Pass on Tutu Atwell Again?

We are well under 85 scholarship players every year. If this guy wanted to come here there is no reason not to take him.

Yes because we can only sign a max of 25. He was a numbers casualty. We signed 4 wr in 2018. Pope. Hightower. Ezzard. And Wiggins. We had other areas of need.

Easy to look back now and say we clearly missed on this 5’8 150lb qb. No hate on the kid glad he is balling but realistically he was likely a backup plan low rated 3 star this board would have flipped about at the time. For every tutu, you can also get a Sam Bruce.
 
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we passed on him because he was 5-8 145 pounds coming out...he wanted to play QB, but knew he would eventually play WR... It wasnt a miss imo..if he was 5'11-6 ft.... pretty aure staff woulda went after him

naw he never was locked in on being a qb...he is 5'8-5'9 160 for gods sakes.lol

They passed because he was small...and likely when they went to see him he was at qb...They wouldnt have offered Roscoe Parrish either who i always compared Tu Tu to. *BARS*
 
naw he never was locked in on being a qb...he is 5'8-5'9 160 for gods sakes.lol

They passed because he was small...and likely when they went to see him he was at qb...They wouldnt have offered Roscoe Parrish either who i always compared Tu Tu to. *BARS*

We need to be honest that the reason we "passed" on Tutu Atwell is because our staff wasn't wise enough to see the potential in the player. He's clearly a Power 5 player. We just have this idea that we are above certain players...which is weird since we have an entire WR room of midgets. Its not like we've got a room of 6'1"-6'5" WRs that just tower over everyone else. We got Mike Harley out here doing the same **** we'd have Tutu Atwell doing. The only difference is...two years later, Tutu is a legit baller and we've got a bunch of JAGS on our roster.

Charge it to the game. Maybe one day we'll get back to being able to identify the Tutu Atwells of the world and then turning them into 1200 yard receivers.
 
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You all really think we don't have players on our team who'd look fantastic in a similar situation? Sure, we're not good at projecting position changes (which is a lost art in the world of camps, early testing and position rankings), but our problems cut deeper into how we make our own players look.
Exactly...He's just in a dynamic offense at UL where they practice a simplified O with tempo....he prolly woulda been practicing blocking power sets and running slow developing patterns 90% of his time at Miami.....he would look like a totally different player right now...
 
The staph thought he was a girl by his nickname and laughed as they tossed his tape in the trash
 
naw he never was locked in on being a qb...he is 5'8-5'9 160 for gods sakes.lol

They passed because he was small...and likely when they went to see him he was at qb...They wouldnt have offered Roscoe Parrish either who i always compared Tu Tu to. *BARS*
This staff wont offer Roscoe Parrish III either.
 
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He's been doing this all season.
Big miss on our end.
People gonna blame Manny. But that was a cycle under Richt/ Dugans. They went with size. Still should stop classifying kids as misses. It's 10-12 Atwell types a year that go elsewhere and don't do anything. Just be happy for the kids success.
 
We sucked at evaluations.
U can kill the staff all u want but they don't suck at evals. Everyone has their misses but we do pretty well on evaluating. We just don't always sign the guys we discover early. Once they blow up they normally go elsewhere.
 
U can kill the staff all u want but they don't suck at evals. Everyone has their misses but we do pretty well on evaluating. We just don't always sign the guys we discover early. Once they blow up they normally go elsewhere.
We sucked at evals. Past tense as I don’t know about the current class. Terrible 4 stars. You can also say that we are terrible at closing. True also.
 
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We sucked at evals. Past tense as I don’t know about the current class. Terrible 4 stars. You can also say that we are terrible at closing. True also.
Okay, u just want to be angry at everything. We suck all of that is true but the staff has made some good evals. But continue being mad my G, u have a right to be but your wrong in thinking that we didn't hit on a lot of evals once Richt got here since your speaking past tense.
 
He was a QB in HS & our staff at the time wasn't smart enough to project him to WR.

We had no interest in him because it was a bad eval by Duggans & Brown.
We used to do it all the time...I think EdvReed and there was another Willie Williams, an athlete from the Houston area we wanted in the '80's. Grade issues with the other Willie. Wasn't Ethenic Sands a QB?

We used to move big TEs to OT, like Mark Cooper and Eric Winston.
 
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There was an article on it the week before the Miami game.

Miami thought he wanted to play QB and didn't like him there, but his coach in HS said he was open to anything and other schools knew that and recruited in kind. We just didn't do a good job here.
 
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