Brooks sucks mainly because of the way we got teased last night. The services were all way off on that recruitment being a two-team race and when the Bama mods started hedging it seemed logical enough to get our hopes up. Most people thought he was a longshot for the class yesterday morning and nobody was panicking about the potential defensive back class. Weird recruitment all around.
Meh on Thompson. Nice player with some tools but if we had taken him half the posters here would be complaining that we are taking UCF level talent and should have kept our powder dry for Finkley or others.
Of course. Ripping on a guy because he's a douche on tv is one thing.
Saying "how dare he talk about being black? Unless you grew up in a project and came from a broken home you don't know anything about the black experience in America" is well, something else.
Well, pretty good job by Brooks of maximizing the suspense at any rate. Night before his commitment he has zero CBs logged, and Alabama (the presumed leader) mods are hedging and saying they don’t think it’s them.
Seems like the Texas side feels confident that it was a two team race but haven’t heard anything concrete that UT is the pick. They’re mostly hoping that the Bama guys are right and that it was in fact down to Texas vs. Alabama.
That exchange above is fucking hilarious.
- "Fuck Acho, fake ass private school kid pretends he grew up in Baltimore as a corner boy. His parents aren't even divorced!"
- "wait, did he ever say or imply anything like that?"
- "ummm...I think he's tried to act like that before"
- "link?"
- "-----" (frantically googling)
CTJ and insidetexas both alluded to a number crunch for Alabama and questioned whether they would have room for Brooks. Have to think Harris would factor in oto that math.
If they are ready to take Brooks hopefully that means they aren’t feeling good about Denver at least.
Christ, talk about missing the point. James Blake grew up rich in Connecticut, went to Harvard, and earned millions playing pro tennis by his late 20s. All that privilege didn't do shit to protect him from getting his ass thrown down on the sidewalk and cuffed because a cop thought he looked like a credit card fraud suspect.
Problem is the belief in that philosophy isn't supported by data or anything else. The article mentions the coaches by way of questioning their blind adherence to it.
"Run to set up the pass" is something they heard coming up the ranks a million times and it's ingrained in their coaching philosophy but it's an outdated maxim (if it ever was true). The best offensive coaches have accepted that there is basically no such thing as too much play-action and no minimum threshold your running game needs to hit to use it.
This isn't really the case. Well designed offenses that use a lot of play-action can be effective whether or not the team runs the ball a lot or effectively.
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2018/further-research-play-action-passing
Not sure if there is similar data for college, but the relevant part:
Of course Bijan and an effective running game is just another way the offense can be deadly.
Was wondering about this. If we pull off a LTG flip, I guess the best case db haul looks like:
CBs: Harris, Anderson, Guilbeau NB/S: Allen, Hyphen
They would probably happily swap Brooks for Guilbeau if JG flipped to TCU and they can manage to beat Saban for two priority CB prospects. Brooks probably has a spot regardless of the numbers if he wants in.
Missing anyone? We don't seem to have a lot of other defensive back offers out.
Ok, last thing (as long as we agree on #2, because that was the point in the first place).
I don’t know about this situation specifically but you have to balance a lot of shit in recruiting and a lot of it is outside of your control. If a player is setting their own timeline and you’ve identified him as a take you might have to accept their commitment when you can get it. Maybe that means missing on a different player you’d rather have because you are skeptical about how good your chances are of actually closing once he’s ready. Is that guy good enough to wait on and risk it? What are your options if you let it ride and miss on both of them? There are a lot of moving parts and it’s more complicated than “I took playerA’s verbal in June because he’s the top player on the board”.
I can’t find exactly what he said but Gerry is certainly a better source than Wescott. Still, from what Machinator said, are you saying that confirms that Gatson was their priority over Miller?
Idk, from the timing of the offers and how long it took to convince Miller to get on campus it feels like that staff mostly moved on from him. They (incorrectly) thought Gatson was in but once that went sideways and they redoubled their efforts and managed to get him on campus.
That’s just me speculating based too. Maybe in a vacuum they would take Gatson over Miller but that’s just surprising. Either way:
1. I’m personally happy how it worked out
2. Westcott is a cunt
Sure, the timeline can support that narrative. It can also support a dozen other narratives, many of which would have Miller being the primary target.
Narrative being the key word, we don't know enough to know definitively either way. But Westcott is a wet blanket pussy about everything so of course the narrative he chooses to push out after a really talented player commits is the most wet blanket narrative he can grab hold of.
Sort of why the Evan Stewart to Florida stuff doesn't make much sense to me. Mullen has never been a rainmaker recruiter, how is he about to come in and grab one of the most contested players in the country out of Texas?
Oh well if Ketch and Wescott said it. Any word from Looch or Finebaum?
I don't know if anybody specifically knows Drayton's board but it's pretty universal consensus that Miller is a better prospect than Gatson.
Wow, what a great job by the staff. Every 9.95er had basically written off Miller to Texas a month ago. Staff pushes through whatever bullshit that was the hang-up, gets him on campus, and closes on a guy who always should have been a Longhorn. Great player and great data point for how this staff recruits.