Who wouldn’t want more Justin Blalocks or Jerry Sizemore on this team? But anybody who can accurately judge a staff’s recruiting skills by 4 kids in year one is missing out on huge money. Oughta be getting paid for it somewhere. This isn’t about Herman anymore. Enough of the bashing. A recruit sees that as systemic uncertainty (hows that for millennial speak?) and attaches a risk premium to playing there. I know this. DKR was as sound as the US dollar. Not so aTm or SMU or TCU. Kids want to know: we’ll have a scheme long enough to learn it and I’ll have a coach who can teach ME. For 4 years. We had Willie Zapalac and Mike Campbell. Nobody worried. One other thing. Kids 6’5” 300# in HS are almost never challenged sufficiently. Most are human road-graders. Technique suffers among even the most diligent when they can ‘bam-bam’ through most everybody.
Check out the Wisconsin ‘scholarship distribution’ for a little lesson in OL. They have 15 OL scholie’s. ONE 5* freshman, a couple of 4’s and 12 or so 3*. I’ll take any bet that they’ll have a top 3 OL unit this year, next, and the one after that. They have had that for a decade at least. Find Potential (good footwork, balance, reverse speed, side step and cross-over) put quality weight on them and teach them to play as a UNIT and you’re ‘sconsin’. A lot of great HS OL prospects have never played unit football. Almost none. Who has 2 or 3 great OL on one team? The state champion maybe.
Chill out on the instant success nipple and invest a little time to let Flood prove his ability. We’ve got enough ‘potential’ already at the stadium. Don’t be so fast to bash. Kids know Internet by 3rd grade. Where to be for 4 years is by far the biggest decision any of them have ever made and the smart ones are scared to death. Don’t give them good reason to be scared of UT.
Check out the Wisconsin ‘scholarship distribution’ for a little lesson in OL. They have 15 OL scholie’s. ONE 5* freshman, a couple of 4’s and 12 or so 3*. I’ll take any bet that they’ll have a top 3 OL unit this year, next, and the one after that. They have had that for a decade at least. Find Potential (good footwork, balance, reverse speed, side step and cross-over) put quality weight on them and teach them to play as a UNIT and you’re ‘sconsin’. A lot of great HS OL prospects have never played unit football. Almost none. Who has 2 or 3 great OL on one team? The state champion maybe.
Chill out on the instant success nipple and invest a little time to let Flood prove his ability. We’ve got enough ‘potential’ already at the stadium. Don’t be so fast to bash. Kids know Internet by 3rd grade. Where to be for 4 years is by far the biggest decision any of them have ever made and the smart ones are scared to death. Don’t give them good reason to be scared of UT.
