My points were made to the guy bashing NJ talent in trying to bring some balance and discussion to this board that doesn't have to do with Golden. It's about recruiting different areas of the country. God forbid we recruit someone from out of state anymore, and the hates starts breeding on here. I mean, Kaaya was from South Florida, right? Miami Dade/Broward players have ALSO been busting for us at a high rate since 2007. This goes back to Randy years.
You want to talk about all the Miami-Dade, Broward busts that Randy brought in or recruited heavily (didn't pass admission). Did you forget about them or are you just selectively picking your arguments? Since 2007: Doug Wiggins, Joe Wylie, Pimp, Davon Johnson (good, but underachieved his recruiting rating), Brandon Marti, Marcus Forston (top DT in country to undrafted), Aldarius Johnson, Benjamin Jones, Kendall Thompkins, David Perry, Keion Payne, Thomas Finnie, Clements (solid but underachieving). Without putting on the blinders, that's a seriously high fail rate for recruits in South Florida for us. If you look at the Palm Beach recruits since then, it doesn't get any better. Randy's strategy of locking down Dade/Broward proved to be unsuccessful in terms of bringing the program back. Is it the players? the coaching? the admin? the program? **** stadium?or just bad luck in recruiting? I feel we could win with a South Florida team, but why hasn't it ever been done?
What has worked is you take the best player available, do your character checks, not matter where he is from. A lot of our All-time great character players were out of state (Reed, Wayne, DJ William, Kelly, Kennedy, Testaverde, Dorsey, almost all our top TE's, etc). I don't see why this should change moving forward?
If you try to bring out any points for discussion anymore, it turns into a ******* Al Golden (slurper vs. he's the enemy) debate. Do I have to say that I want Golden gone on every thread I write? But once he's gone, then what? What's the plan?
