OrangeBowlMagic
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We had only 2 offensive linemen committed form many months now and an offer and hope for one other Neal.
We had no cushion of decent players to cover the decommits. When the two twins joined at the hip went to Florida and Neal would have been tough to land even if we had had a 10-2 record.
We should have had at least 4 maybe 5 guys committed for the O-line so even the two twins that went to Florida should have left us with at least 2 solid commits.
There was never any real concern during he last several months about such a low number of commits in an area of need.
So you want to take commitments from kids who you plan on decommitting, and if they don't, you have to pull their scholarships at the 11th hour? That's how you wanna run your program?
The want to take 3ish OL. They had 2 committed who they liked, and it was mutual enough for the kids to commit. They obviously are doing literally everything they can do get Neal. They have been recruiting Lucas. You think the right way to play this is to take 5 commits in hopes of yielding 2? You know no school ever in the history of football has ever approached recruiting this way, correct?
BTW...I'm not saying I agree with what's happened to this point on OL recruiting AT ALL. Nor am I defending the staff. Just what you laid out is an atrocious plan and not the way anyone does this. Do a better job of holding onto the ones who commit to you. That's step 1. Not take commitments from 5 kids over the summer who you have no intention of signing.