1999 Era Recruiting vs Today (Derailed Maason Smith thread)

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Here’s what’s going on in this thread

 

[skeeter]

Gotta think holding out for SEC buck$ right?

 

[Cajuncane]

Devonta Smith?

he is from Amite.La and Momma ended up with a new house so at least the ridiculing was worth it..

 

[cway313]

in case LCE or Cribby were looking for this.

 

[Brooklyndee]

The Rothschilds need their money or they’ll crumble whoever doesn’t pay.

Rothschild's are more uk for america it's rockefellers. Those top 3 ain't no game

 

[Brooklyndee]

Exactly. These type of prospects have to be a ANNUAL occurrence ..build a elite team by stacking chips. Not all highly talented guys pan out. You negate that by annually recruiting a kid just as gifted

Actually you negate that by developing the kids you do sign to minimize the gap first and foremost...

 

[SWFLHurricane]

Yeah no I agree .. I was pretty much comparing it to when Ed Reed stayed his senior year

Ed stayed his 5th yr to Win a NC....No other reason....Not like he got much better from 2000 too 01....A matter of fact...the 2000 Secondary was Ranked #1 in the NCAA.....Ed easily was 1st round material even in 2000...

 

[SWFLHurricane]

And just imagine....SeanTay missed inclusion by only one yr.....

 

[BostonCanes47]

Smith is this years Justin flowe

If we didn’t go 6-7 last year and looked competent, Flowe would have signed here. We gave him no reason to sign here (other than early PT) and every reason not to sign here with the way we played last year.

 

[Canesmia01]

If we didn’t go 6-7 last year and looked competent, Flowe would have signed here. We gave him no reason to sign here (other than early PT) and every reason not to sign here with the way we played last year.

Hope he rots in the forest out there

 

[BeastMode]

Smith seems pretty grounded by his interviews so I don’t see him picking that dumpster fire LSU right now, or at least that would be surprising cause they are in really really bad shape.

He likely ends up at one of the next two big schools in Bama or UGA. We will finish in second like we do all the time in these scenarios.

 

[gacaneaddict]

If we didn’t go 6-7 last year and looked competent, Flowe would have signed here. We gave him no reason to sign here (other than early PT) and every reason not to sign here with the way we played last year.

Well that decision was short sided.

Miami > Eugene
Miami top 10, Oregon record 1-2.

 

[GOCANES05]

If everyone stays and trains like no other NO OFFSEASON (7) days a week only allowing (6) hours sleep.

We’ll beat BAMA , it’s a choice not rocket science

GOCANES

 

[305to954]

Actually you negate that by developing the kids you do sign to minimize the gap first and foremost...

U wanna beat OSU/Bama/Clemson and be a top 5 program annually? You recruit Blu chips and stack those classes to raise competition within your program.

 

[TallyCane]

Well that decision was short sided.

Miami > Eugene
Miami top 10, Oregon record 1-2.

He went to Oregon cause it was closer to home. He was a Clemson lean till he decided to stay close to home.

 

[CANE1775]

bama has a guy on staff (not sure if he’s still there) from Amite. Over the years they’ve poached a few kids from there bc of this dude (he was responsible for landing devonta smith)

He's not. People forget that Smith was actually committed to uga where Petitto (the guy you are referencing) was serving as player personnel or something. Saban hired him, Smith decommitted and then signed with Bama. This story was revisited in the media after Smith's national championship winning catch against uga. People kinda overlooked it though because of the Hurts/Tua storyline.

 

[Hurricane23]

Has Smith ever been on UM campus?

I think he was at paradise in 2019

 

[Brooklyndee]

U wanna beat OSU/Bama/Clemson and be a top 5 program annually? You recruit Blu chips and stack those classes to raise competition within your program.

I'm curious. How old are you or better yet how long have you been following us? Cause our history isn't made up of stacking blue chip kids or shuffling between them. It's the exact opposite. We stacked our chips by taking kids who were coachable and lived and died with football. We coached those mid level kids up to be monsters on a regular basis... That's our history brother. What you're describing is the formula at the blue blood factory programs and for them it works. I'm not saying you're wrong. I just know to get classes FULL of elite recruits isn't exa you practical here from a consistency standpoint simply because of all the extra factors that go into elite talent. By truly developing what you do have the gap narrows. The end goal is obviously getting the best results possible out of each kid.

 

[AZHurricane]

Anderson ... did he ever play at UM?

He was a track guy....

 

[Ethnicsands]

I'm curious. How old are you or better yet how long have you been following us? Cause our history isn't made up of stacking blue chip kids or shuffling between them. It's the exact opposite. We stacked our chips by taking kids who were coachable and lived and died with football. We coached those mid level kids up to be monsters on a regular basis... That's our history brother. What you're describing is the formula at the blue blood factory programs and for them it works. I'm not saying you're wrong. I just know to get classes FULL of elite recruits isn't exa you practical here from a consistency standpoint simply because of all the extra factors that go into elite talent. By truly developing what you do have the gap narrows. The end goal is obviously getting the best results possible out of each kid.

Evaluations.

Which of our kids who become monsters wouldn't have been great had they gone elsewhere?

We don't need to sign other people's top 10 list. We do need to sign the right kids, well evaluated.