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Randy Shannon signed the #1 class in 2008. That answers all your questions right there. SOME kids, like PP or PJ or whatever his name is today would have been a great individual player here. It wouldn't have made much of a difference, though. We'd still have stunk. He got better coaching where he went. Most kids that went elsewhere the last 15 years got better coaching where they went. That will change now.
And I agree, recruiting is the lifeblood of a program. However, without a competent coaching staff all that talent gets wasted on Saturdays.
You took the words right out of my mouth. The problem was the coaching, not the players.
You two guys may not be guilty of this but I read so many posts on this site that say the 2001 Team won the NC based on talent. Some don't seem to understand that you need both good players and good coaching.
I hear you, but I think the 2001 team is a little different in that most of those guys had a culture installed in them b4 Slappy took over. Those were Butch's kids, u feel me? Once Butch's kids started graduating, that culture left and each year it got worst and worst as far as on field production. Historically, we've always had "good" recruiting classes since 2000 as compared to other schools who've been winning recently (Oregon, TCU, Baylor, Iowa, etc)...but our problem is we haven't established a winning culture with coaching. Slappy was lazy on the recruiting front, and could not make an adjustment to save his life. Randy tried too much to be a disciplinarian and forgot coaching. Al.....no comment.
2001 team was more of a stars aligned anamoly vs the norm.
What people forget is that Coker maintained the entire staff that Butch had until 2004 then he let go of the core of the staff that was critical in developing these players.
Excellent point