this is interesting. happy we beat out pitt, but is this kid that good where all he needs is a smemster(summer) of classes to boost grades or w/e and hes good enough? i dont get it. kids who get the gs are like dobbs usually. there is a solvable issue somewhere. but why do we think we can do it so quickly? pitt also did so thats that. why woudln't we rather take the local kid from milford or camara or something. we didn't need another lb in this class i thought. my hunch i guess is get him here w/e the issue is in the fall or spring next year(seems to hint prep school) and then pick between being a cb or bulking up to lb. i imagine he could cut weight a bit and become a big time cb. but who the heck knows. this is a wierd one. just glad he saw that the home state scum was scum.
on the other side, i am now worried about 2 of our 4 pa commits getting to uconn becuase of grades/school issues. not how i want to be sitting going into NSD.
Has he played CB before? I've seen LBs that size transition to S. I'm not sure I've ever seen a LB come in and transition to CB.
i was just throwing that out there. i ment defensive back and yes hes tall so saftey. i thinks hes always benn a lb but i kinda see a switch possible in him. who knows tho. what im interested in is that this kid is so dam good that 2 bcs schools offered him gs offers based on fixing his issues. did any of u see that kids tape? it didn't exactly make me go frucking nuts. he looked like a good player but i dono....
welp, hes not technically #22, hes a footnote until he actually can get into uconn.
i was just throwing that out there. i ment defensive back and yes hes tall so saftey. i thinks hes always benn a lb but i kinda see a switch possible in him. who knows tho. what im interested in is that this kid is so dam good that 2 bcs schools offered him gs offers based on fixing his issues. did any of u see that kids tape? it didn't exactly make me go frucking nuts. he looked like a good player but i dono....
welp, hes not technically #22, hes a footnote until he actually can get into uconn.
Footnote or not... "He will join fellow UConn commits Junior Joseph and Brian Lemelle on the Pennsylvania squad playing the Maryland team in the Big 33 Classic."
Oh... and Tyvon Branch cam out of HS as a TB/LB!
i just want to know what the issue is and how are we going to fix it. this staff has done a ok job finding kid swith issues that other schools overlook because they can recruit better and dont need the headaches. the problem is this staff then frucks every single one of those kids by no following thru with them and getting the issue fixed. so i'm worried. i'm worried about him and i'm worried about lemelle. and i'm going to be until i get signatures and dorm room numbers and jersey numbers above a locker.
ever heard of college coaches gaming the system? all do it in different ways. well here one we havn't see becuase we have never had a good recrutier before. kids who have issues and most likely wont qualify can still verbal to schools and pick schools then go prep/juco. if u notice over the past 2 years we have a had a significant number of those kids and ever time is a highly sought after or good player, not some reach. whe have never gotten these kids to campus yet. but the big thing is the staff gets to make the fanbase happy for a bit becuase they get some stars on a recruiting site and it makes the class look better and gives us hope. there seems to be a lot of that going on under P. dobbs, sylva, cunningham types and also kids they keep close tabs and lead on who then never get offers and go elsewhere and then kick our frucking ass on the field. i'm not going to fully acuse, but i'm not blind to the trend.
SMH - sure HFD, they are doing this to satify the grumbling fanbase. Geesh. I'll give ya a "told ya so' if it happens but...
Oh - and on the "follow through" - it's a two way street. Kids have to commit to fix their academics when told to (Sylva).
I mean if those guys were four and five Star players I guess I would agree to some extent, none of them are. We need a winning season in the worst way to make these conspiracy theories go away. I mean were getting three star players and in the case of Britton an unranked player to commit because it will make the fan base happy? I don't thin two or three players that don't work out academically is a trend. Look at Bryan, He was on campus and unforseen circumstances forced him to leave and go to Dean.
britton is our best recruit in the class acording to 247 ratings so theres that for the unranked argument...
bryan was a different story
sylva? dobbs? how come this school/staff doesn't know the exact # of certain level credits it needs to get kids in. just complete bs on both of them. not even going to rage on witht that. every sec class has 10 of those kids.
Again, how many kids mail it in post commit and/or don't follow through on their academic requirments therefore changing the number of credits needed after the fact or take BS classes that don't clear the clearinghouse? As we saw with R.B. - transcipts can change. Blame the staff for field antics - not academic/clearinghouse related issues.
I think your mad because he came out of the blue and never made your "lists" up until last week.