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He won two straight national titles as a college football OL coach. And that was after he built our best lines in almost two decades, filled with future NFL players. The fact that we didn’t get more out of those lines is an indictment on the HC and the OC. Stoutland didn’t forget how to coach...

Stoutland turned Jason Kelce, Brandon Brooks, Evan Mathis and Lane Johnson into Pro Bowlers. He took a rugby player who never played football and turned him into a $64 million tackle. He’s considered one of the best OL coaches in the world, which is why three straight Eagles coaches have kept him.

Boateng actually played in four games for Clemson as a true freshman. Adam El-Gammal, who we took over Boateng, played zero.

2018 was a weak class locally. We got Scaife and he’s our best OL by a mile. In 2019, Dontae Lucas made freshman AA teams and was voted one of Athlon’s 35 breakout players for 2020. But the real frustration came from Kaleb Boateng. He’s a guy I posted about all year. When we were scrambling...

This post is 1.5 years old, and our OL still sucks. Barry's failure in South Florida (in a year when the region sent five OL to Top 10 teams) is particularly egregious. Justice is doing a much better job of recruiting locally and seems to be more personable than the last two coaches. With that...

No doubt we need better development. That’s a different thread. This thread is about recruiting. Iowa has access to local players and is able to identify and sign the talented kids. We don’t have that same local advantage in Iowa. That’s why the two Iowa kids we signed (Matt Pipho and Zack...

It's too far. Unless you move up someone's whole family, like Alabama boosters did for Tua, it's tough to get those guys out of the West.

It’s about who we can sign. I would rather get the best South Florida kids than the leftover Iowa kids. And I think we should go out of state. But we need to focus on cities.

Linder and McDermott are like that. I put them in the South Florida bucket.

Our offensive line is bad. And the class is looking shaky. This got me thinking about Jeff Stoutland. He was our OL coach from 2007 to 2010. While at Miami, Stoutland signed five linemen who went on to start games in the NFL. For comparison, Alabama only signed four during the same time...