You all dont realize, but sh*t like this gets around. Owens has teammates and coaches in HS. Local papers and other recruits hear about this stuff. Future recruits and players hear about this stuff. It starts to get around that at the U, they dont just treat you like a piece of meat, that its a family that cares about eachother, that the HC isnt all about winning, he cares about his players and their families. Their well being. No, its not going to sway 90% of kids or their families, but when things are tight and its a coin toss on where a kid goes, hearing about an HC that will go visit your father in the hospital. The type of HC who will run out into the middle of the field and cradle one of his players while his ankle his twisted backwards and he's howling in agony. That could make some parents and kids say, "that's the kind of family I want to be a part of", "that's the kind of man I want looking after my baby for the next 4 years".
AG is a class act. I really hope we can fix this defense, because if we can, the sky is really the limit here. I really want this guy to succeed here.
You're right it will attract players like Jimmie Gaines, Shayon Green and Olsen Pierre. Guys of high moral character and low ceiling, but the ****ing killers it takes to run CFB, dont give a **** if their own mommas come see them in the hospital. Only thing they care about is how quickly they can get back to murdering folks on the field. Am I happy we have a nice guy as a head coach? Absolutely, Golden is an asset to our program, but Im not going to sit and and pretend he lacks football knowledge on game day. It's a great and warming story, sells some papers, but it wont bring us a 'ship! We have yet to see Al Golden trot out 11 killers on the field for an entire game. A team takes on the persona of its head coach, if you want 11 nice guys on the field Golden is your guy.
Do you honestly believe that Play Maker, Thrill, Vilma, Reed, or any of our greats would not to this day be moved by this sort of thing? Our great players were not thugs roaming the streets raping and murdering people. They like that thug image a lot more than they lived it. OU, UF they always took thugs not Howard and JJ. Choir boys maybe not, but not the type you paint them. Barrow was a vicious hitting not a killer. The boys danced and make other players look the fool. It was FSU that hit late, with St Bobby's sanction, and took cheap shot, not the Canes. We have had player be murdered!!! Not players THAT murder. And, JJ and Butch's graduation rates were very high, up with the goody goody boys at PSU. We had to horrible coaches that could not recruit or coach in a row. I think we still have a horrible DC, but that is were our problem is, coaching not the lack of criminal players.