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The amazing thing is Shields wasn't a good receiver - he had to switch to WR. And Parker didn't pan out either. Coker didn't even try to evaluate as far as I can tell. Recruited off lists.

I know those are rhetorical questions, but dammit mane, Coker was teh woat. I was yelling at the clouds on this topic back in the Coker era. Folks around here ain't changed. The new guys are always promising. Evaluations sound interesting but when we sign a highly rated kid, everyone's...

The idea that a class was ‘well received on signing day’ is evidence that it was good or didn’t contain the seeds of failure is bizarre. I thought this board had moved past thinking recruiting rankings tell you whether you’re evaluating well. Coker was a disaster, he evaluated poorly...

Your comment doesn’t make much sense if you’re even old enough to recall that class. Did you think Anthony Wollschlager and Alex Pou was a good OL class? I don’t know anyone who followed recruiting back then who did.

Yep. A big miss. One of the early signs of coker’s demise iirc.

Bad evals and bad recruiting are really different types of flaw, agreed. that said, the ‘we did everything right ... bbbbbutttt bags’ excuse strikes me as mostly BS. Not because bags are BS but because why does anyone thing we ‘did everything right’? We haven’t had good staffs or good...

His runner up was clemson iirc.

Others.... Major Wright Noel Devine Geno Atkins jayron Hosley lamarcus joyner Matt patchan ivan mccartney dexter williams alex collins trayvon mullen jeudy, cooper, watkins giovanni bernard ryan shazier devonta freeman

A few quick ones from me. Janoris Jenkins. Santanio Holmes. taurean Charles. Jacky Claude. Davin Joseph. Ronnie Wilson. Marcus Gilbert. Bobby Hart. Torrian Wilson. Eli Rogers. R. Therezie. G. Holliman.

I looked back into it. A huge recruiting failure by UM considering he was a local kid, we should have figured this out. He didn’t play as a junior was what happened. Non-football issues. So yeah, seemed off the radar but the local program is supposed to pounce on these types of situations...

Yep, Liuget’s mom wanted him out of so fla iirc. Worth recalling that Pata was killed not that long before Liuget was being recruited.

Biggest recruiting miss of the past 20 years was Willie Williams. Destroyed the program’s ability to take risk on kids under Shalala. The other was Dave Howell - the moment you know Coker was totally clueless.

‘Patrick Peterson is the best CB prospect to come along in a decade.’ - Laus (RIP)

I don’t think that’s quite right. He was on radars and was noted as a good recruit and top athlete by most sites. But Iirc he was a wr on many sites. Saban knows dbs and saw his potential better than most, but position switch projections require data and so the commitable offer came relatively...

Peterson/Johnson and Bowe were big misses (L$U).

Flowe was a west coast kid. Can’t count him as a big miss. Neal, agree with you. Wasn’t he Cleveland Gary’s mephew or something?