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Ricky's one-hitter

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  1. Lol. Like guard and tackle have such different physical and mental requirements. Center, I get. But it's not like a tackle drafted by a team with guard needs would need to "learn a new position". Just...do less.
  2. Carl has taken a different posting direction
  3. One of the safety depth you have listed must develop into starter quality, imo. The db room has a lot of "versatile athletes" that need permanent positions. MM may not be a corner. I think it was Charles Power who said his best fit after watching all star game week might be nickel or safety long term. Putting depth at star is a good idea, especially long depth with situational coverage skills. Brooks was considered the highest upside db in our last class because of his length and youth. I think we need him to stick at corner, but he can still play nickel or field safety. Ideally, Crawford turns the corner. He's athlete enough to be all conference, but he needs a Jaylon Ford level jump to get there. Still can't see the field. Taaffe is physically limited, LTG still may be a linebacker (give me he and McDonald in the hybrid role they pitched to Harold Perkins), and I don't think we've seen Allen in a practice report since the fall when we heard he needs time. Thankfully, Spring will tell us a lot. Hopefully there's less fucking around with cross training and more focus on positional nuance. If GP bolts, I'm not super confident that Gideon and Joseph are capable of that.
  4. Yes, it would be great if we had players on our roster that were better than our starters... Watts was pretty good for us. He and Barron were setting an edge more effectively than Ovie and without their run support, we would have been bad against anything wide of the tackles. Is he ideally a safety? Yes, of course. Can we win a championship, conference or otherwise, with him at corner? Yes, absolutely.
  5. It is the same as Gary's job. Makes sense to have the posting up so you can hire anytime, but disconcerting nonetheless.
  6. There is new NCAA legislation to "allow" off-field coaches to work with players in practices, but it's being mostly laughed at because it's general knowledge that off-field coaches absolutely coach in practices at every school in the country
  7. I've long thought Sydney's posts were all transcribed with voice to text at rage volume 11
  8. They overlapped in 2014 - Parker missed the first 7 games of the season and returned to almost match his highest season yardage total (835 v 885) averaging 142.5 yds/gm and 20 yds/rec.
  9. Petrino will pitch a DaVante Parker role to Stewart. Unlikely that resonates. SIAP, but this is an incredible, scathing take on Petrino to aggy https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-bobby-petrino-jimbo-fisher-disaster-waiting-to-happen/
  10. I watched Ball State a couple times in midweek games this season and Carson Steele is the truth. Dude looks like Peyton Hillis
  11. We could have afforded another RB before Blue, so I'd say adding one is imperative. If either of Brooks or Baxter are out for any length of time, we have no backfill for an every down back. Especially if Brooks misses time - a true freshman + gadgetguygang are not going to win a conference. A bigger, experienced, Gabe Watson type is a good insurance policy.
  12. Here's a couple interesting to me comparisons: Top 10 Comparison 2023 2024 5*s 6 4 #10 Rating 0.971 0.9606 (in '23, #15 was rated .9606) #10 Natl. Ranking 62 73 At first glance, pretty close, especially since Cook became a composite 5* late in the cycle and Owens almost dropped out. I don't think that the top of the in-state class is as strong as it has been in the past, but we're also working with incomplete data. This could be a super deep class, but without personally watching a zillion hudls, we don't really know. The covid driven, in-person evaluation ban was in place from 3/13/20 - 6/1/21 which had an enormous and obvious impact on the '22 and '23 classes. While '24s have not had "traditional" opportunities to be evaluated taken from them, services and college staffs spent more time on the previous two classes after the ban was lifted, which was imo, at the expense of a full and complete eval of the '24s. 247/on3/Rivals/.........ESPN wouldn't even have a combined headcount that would support evaluating all of the prospects worth evaluating and rating. There are other factors at play here for why a hs prospect may be underrecruited and invisible to the services like saving hs offers for the portal and roster count ambiguity, but we may be looking at a new, shortened timeline of interest for any given class. Despite our collective interest in a 1k class thread of meltdowns, I'm all for a more focused coverage of a prospect cycle. Makes it a lot easier to follow, and I don't spend any time watching the highlights of some unranked Freshman DL from Olney who will absolutely never get an offer.
  13. Jeremy Clark, the 247 frog mod put in a pick for Jelani McDonald to Texas this morning
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