'17 Commit: After Bouncing From House To House, (Robert) Holmes Hopes To Settle With UConn Football | The Boneyard

'17 Commit: After Bouncing From House To House, (Robert) Holmes Hopes To Settle With UConn Football

Joined
Aug 28, 2011
Messages
8,200
Reaction Score
22,407
"Heading into his junior year, Holmes had scholarship offers from Michigan State, Miami, Auburn and others, but those Power Five offers were rescinded in the wake of his knee injury."

Their loss is our gain.
 

uconnbill

A Half full kind of guy
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
8,363
Reaction Score
14,014
He ran a 5.1 second forty which is incredible. I know he had an ACL injury in his junior year but I feel he may be UConn best recruit in this class
 

Chin Diesel

Power of Love
Joined
Aug 24, 2011
Messages
32,410
Reaction Score
97,249
Obviously a feel good chapter in a rough life so far.

This is exactly the type of player Edsall 1.0 excelled in developing.

I remember Edsall discussing recruiting and talking about how much more there is to develop in a recruit vice having a near finished product.

He mentioned kids who have played with position coaches since Pop Warner, gone to camps since grade school and have been in weight and conditioning programs their whole HS careers. You know as a coach what you see on film from that player is what you are getting from that player on college. Little left to develop.

Compare that to Holmes. You can easily see him slimming??? down to 320-325 and being thick as a shitbrickhouse. With a nasty streak.
 

HuskyHawk

The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
Joined
Sep 12, 2011
Messages
31,862
Reaction Score
81,491
Hoping that UConn can be the springboard to a great future life for this kid. I think he's got a great chance to be an impact player and a real road grinder at RT. I can imagine him, in a year, getting out and flattening people on outside runs to his side.
 

whaler11

Head Happy Hour Coach
Joined
Aug 27, 2011
Messages
44,376
Reaction Score
68,269
Kudos to Anthony and his editor for burying The Blind Side until the second to last paragraph.
 

Online statistics

Members online
186
Guests online
3,072
Total visitors
3,258

Forum statistics

Threads
155,799
Messages
4,032,022
Members
9,865
Latest member
Sad Tiger


Top Bottom