The Official Offensive Line OL recruiting thread

I checked and was told UF has no interest in Jacoby.

 

I assume he would not be immediately eligible, correct?

 

See post 61, UF has no interest.

 

Damn...blasted him ten yards downhill and then pancaked him on the ground. At least it wasnt Desmond Watson doing the pancake. Poor guy is probably 8 inches thinner and 2 feet wider now.

 

FIU has a monster recruiter

 

Strickland 2.0. I just don't see it in him. Massive, but I just don't see him being able to handle SEC rush ends.

 

Hev likes the Ethan White type project kids no one wants and the HS wrestlers

 

And that is bad for him to recruit a guy that any other SEC team would want starting for them? I don't like the OL recruiting also, but I am trying to get your point. Is it OK to bash our players who have worked their butts off. Should we bash Taylor, Johnson (a wrestler), and Forsythe for how bad they are going to look playing in the NFL for decades since they were such lowly rated recruits? All high school recruits at OL are projects.

 

I confess. There is one OL every year who can play immediately. Every year he goes to Bama. But it is a rough job projecting OL. I will give Ivey that he played injured a lot. But he never became a consistent top OL. He had some players of the week in the SEC.

 

I like this plan. Wanny was way overweight in HS too.

 

Alabama, for example, is not better because they win individual recruiting battles. They are better because the overall quality of their recruits is so high. Of course some less sought after recruits will excel and some sought after recruits will be misses: that doesn’t demonstrate anything. Similarly, while I’d agree that rankings don’t mean much, what does mean a great deal is having a host of SEC/regional teams that win whatever battle they have with us. As with backyard football, having your pick of players is a decided advantage.

Now, it is conceivable that Mullen could be so good that none of that matters. Fine, let’s see. I agree you hire coaches to win games and not win recruiting battles. We will be playing Bama, Georgia and LSU in Mullen’s fourth season with four classes under his belt—let’s let the performance in the field decide.

 

I think he was a bit elusive here as he’s not addressing the issue of missing on guys we go after. It looks like we have to go to plan Bs and I really wish the press guys would press him on this.

 

We will see this year. I always say 3-4 years to get it together. Time to pay the piper.