Thomas Brown visits top RB McFarland today

Jan 12, 2017

With the recruiting contact period back open, Miami Hurricanes offensive coordinator and running backs coach Thomas Brown was in Maryland today stopping in on top target Anthony McFarland.

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McFarland is set to announce his decision on January 25th and Mark Richt still has an in-home visit with the running back available. The only other program in the picture right now is the hometown Maryland, who just hired his high school coach Elijah Brooks on staff.

Miami has been very confident in their chances in landing the Dematha Catholic HS product and sources tell CanesInSight that Miami remains the team to beat. Maryland's hiring of Brooks was long-anticipated and is something that McFarland has been aware of for a while -- so it does not appear that will affect his decision.

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The Franchise

Jan 12, 2017

brock said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

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comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

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Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

brock said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

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comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

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we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

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Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

So now you know more about Slaton than Pete Ariz? Pete had him as a UM lock a couple weeks ago. He must have showed interest in UM for Pete to put his reputation on the line.

But nah. Let's just go with the Rumph protector rhetoric being spewed by 252cane and his trusty sidekick broke. Slaton never had any interest in UM. Pete just made it up so he'd look stupid.

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fincane

Jan 12, 2017

The Franchise said:
brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

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brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

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we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

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Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

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So now you know more about Slaton than Pete Ariz? Pete had him as a UM lock a couple weeks ago. He must have showed interest in UM for Pete to put his reputation on the line.

But nah. Let's just go with the Rumph protector rhetoric being spewed by 252cane and his trusty sidekick broke. Slaton never had any interest in UM. Pete just made it up so he'd look stupid.

He didn't make it up to look stupid but the only people on earth "in the know" that thought Slaton was going to Miami was Peter and his sources. At no point did Slaton name Miami as one of his leaders. People here assumed Rumph would be the one to get him here and that belief was solidified with Pete's post but nothing that Slaton had done should've made you think he was coming here.

Peter Ariz

Jan 12, 2017

fincane said:
The Franchise said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

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Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

Click to expand...

So now you know more about Slaton than Pete Ariz? Pete had him as a UM lock a couple weeks ago. He must have showed interest in UM for Pete to put his reputation on the line.

But nah. Let's just go with the Rumph protector rhetoric being spewed by 252cane and his trusty sidekick broke. Slaton never had any interest in UM. Pete just made it up so he'd look stupid.

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He didn't make it up to look stupid but the only people on earth "in the know" that thought Slaton was going to Miami was Peter and his sources. At no point did Slaton name Miami as one of his leaders. People here assumed Rumph would be the one to get him here and that belief was solidified with Pete's post but nothing that Slaton had done should've made you think he was coming here.

I was not the only one predicting it

The Franchise

Jan 12, 2017

brock said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

brock said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

fincane said:
The Franchise said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

Click to expand...

So now you know more about Slaton than Pete Ariz? Pete had him as a UM lock a couple weeks ago. He must have showed interest in UM for Pete to put his reputation on the line.

But nah. Let's just go with the Rumph protector rhetoric being spewed by 252cane and his trusty sidekick broke. Slaton never had any interest in UM. Pete just made it up so he'd look stupid.

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He didn't make it up to look stupid but the only people on earth "in the know" that thought Slaton was going to Miami was Peter and his sources. At no point did Slaton name Miami as one of his leaders. People here assumed Rumph would be the one to get him here and that belief was solidified with Pete's post but nothing that Slaton had done should've made you think he was coming here.

Considering Pete's source works in the football offices I'm going to roll with Pete's knowledge of Slaton's interest in UM over a bunch of guys guessing just to make it look like Rumph is innocent again.

Jan 12, 2017

IndayArtHauz said:
Ayeee they got rumphed.

Wrong, according to many posters it is not reasonable to expect hiring the coach to land players and rump is not deserving of criticism for failing to deliver every single one of the blue chips he coached.

It is about relationships.

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fincane

Jan 12, 2017

The Franchise said:
brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

brock said:

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

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fincane said:

The Franchise said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

Click to expand...

So now you know more about Slaton than Pete Ariz? Pete had him as a UM lock a couple weeks ago. He must have showed interest in UM for Pete to put his reputation on the line.

But nah. Let's just go with the Rumph protector rhetoric being spewed by 252cane and his trusty sidekick broke. Slaton never had any interest in UM. Pete just made it up so he'd look stupid.

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He didn't make it up to look stupid but the only people on earth "in the know" that thought Slaton was going to Miami was Peter and his sources. At no point did Slaton name Miami as one of his leaders. People here assumed Rumph would be the one to get him here and that belief was solidified with Pete's post but nothing that Slaton had done should've made you think he was coming here.

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Considering Pete's source works in the football offices I'm going to roll with Pete's knowledge of Slaton's interest in UM over a bunch of guys guessing just to make it look like Rumph is innocent again.

And Pete has been burned before. That source as you might imagine might be a sunshine pumper. Nothing Slaton has done to this point validates what Pete brought to the board.

Cash

Jan 12, 2017

PUNCICANE said:
brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

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comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

I thought our Cb's looked **** good this year. Are you saying he can't coach or he just can't recruit?

RVACane

Jan 12, 2017

brock said:
It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Brock, you were doing so well in your acting role as the board enforcer and hammer but you had to go blow it all on Rumph.

chicanego

Jan 12, 2017

brock said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

Broke has a laundry list of excuses for missing on recruits and not a single one involves any sort of fault amongst the coaching staff.

JHallCanes

Jan 12, 2017

This thread got Broke

Cans4life

Jan 12, 2017

Just looked over Maryland's class and I was shocked to see it is currently Top 20. They have 7 Four starts committed at the moment.

Pretty impressive for such a dumpster fire of a program.

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fincane

Jan 12, 2017

The Franchise said:
brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

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Pruitt was absolutely hired to recruit and he did an awesome job of it. He happened to blossom into a great DC too. But you, in your infinite idiocy, think that because Pruitt turned out to be a great DC that he wasn't hired to recruit first.

As far as Pruitt being a great recruiter or hired to secure Hoover kids there isn't evidence of that with his former high school. Alabama didn't sign any Hoover kids in the immediate aftermath of his hiring. Maybe Hoover didn't have any Alabama level kids and he secured players from other schools but no Hoover kids showed up after Pruitt's hiring.

252cane

Jan 12, 2017

The Franchise said:
DeMatha either has other blue chip guys that Maryland wants, or they're going all in on McFarland by hiring his HS coach. Maryland didn't hire the HS coach because of his coaching acumen.

His high school coach being hired doesnt seem to have any affect on his decision. Time for maryland fans to ask for him to be fired right?

brock

Jan 12, 2017

RVACane said:
brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

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Brock, you were doing so well in your acting role as the board enforcer and hammer but you had to go blow it all on Rumph.

Come on dawg don't do me like that man lol, rumph is a good coach imo. He's still developing as a recruiter which we all know ..but as far as I'm concerned hes bringing in talent at his postion

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OriginalCanesCanesCanes

Jan 12, 2017

Broke, I'm not a fire Rumph guy (yet), but if you don't see the issues with him not even being able to get a sniff from talented guys he was just coaching several months ago, then you're cutting him slack that he doesn't deserve.

Don't know if there's a particular reason that you like him or want to protect him, but his failure at the guys from his own school has put everyone on alert about his recruiting abilities.

A big part of the job is successfully recruiting, something which so far he's fallen well short of. Time will tell, but we can't have year after year of whiffing on talented defensive backs. Personally if it was up to me, I'd give him one more season to show he can bring in talent, top-notch talent.

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cubin10

Jan 12, 2017

JHallCanes said:
This thread got Broke

Broke is click bait.

FreePawn

Jan 12, 2017

PUNCICANE said:
brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

comparing Rumph to Briles and Pruitt...... HAAA. Is Rumph replacing Golden is your heart now?

Click to expand...

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

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Those Golden years made you good at this ^

Eerily similar....

bobbydigius

Jan 12, 2017

FreePawn said:
PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

PUNCICANE said:

brock said:

Dude stfu you have fViking issues, Pruitt and briles are both accomplished coaches but I doubt we heard people make crazy claims that they were recruiting hires or that they can't coach when they was hired from the highschool rank

Click to expand...

we hired a Highschool coach that is a decorated Alumni and he has proceeded to miss out on everyone of his former players at positions of massive need to UM. Anyone that defends him or tries to compare him to...LOL...Briles and Pruitt, is either his mother or a ****ing idiot...

Click to expand...

Slaton ain't never give Miami the time of the day or even mentioned Miami until late this past year in his career in highschool... Herbert was leaning to uf ever since they offered and then committed to Michigan for whatever reason and Marco Wilson been bashing Miami since we didn't offer his brother since 2013...

Click to expand...

Those Golden years made you good at this ^

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Eerily similar....

It's rinse, wash and repeat with fans. Same thing happened with Randy and Golden. You would think everybody would know better by now. Rumph has been a unmitigated disaster on the recruiting trail thus far. Just what it is, hopefully it improves.

RVACane

Jan 12, 2017

brock said:
RVACane said:

brock said:

It's funny how art briles who was a former highschool coach or Jeremy Pruitt who came up from the highschool ranks weren't criticized for their coaching abilities but yet guys like rumph and Elijah brooks are. Both have produced multiple 5 and 4 star players. Hmmm

Click to expand...

Brock, you were doing so well in your acting role as the board enforcer and hammer but you had to go blow it all on Rumph.

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Come on dawg don't do me like that man lol, rumph is a good coach imo. He's still developing as a recruiter which we all know ..but as far as I'm concerned hes bringing in talent at his postion

I'm sorry bro.. I didn't realize how many guys were jumping on you until I got through the thread. You had to know anything said in defense of Rumph and his recruiting would open up the vultures and hawks???

252cane

Jan 12, 2017

OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Broke, I'm not a fire Rumph guy (yet), but if you don't see the issues with him not even being able to get a sniff from talented guys he was just coaching several months ago, then you're cutting him slack that he doesn't deserve.

Don't know if there's a particular reason that you like him or want to protect him, but his failure at the guys from his own school has put everyone on alert about his recruiting abilities.

A big part of the job is successfully recruiting, something which so far he's fallen well short of. Time will tell, but we can't have year after year of whiffing on talented defensive backs. Personally if it was up to me, I'd give him one more season to show he can bring in talent, top-notch talent.

Why cant anybody on the staff land them if its just rumph cant recruit?

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