He was. The staff’s reasoning for no offer, despite wanting 4 WRs in the class (see late offers to Ty thorton and Ezzard), was due to Harley/JT4 being taken in the class before and Mark Pope being on the smaller side as well.
Imagine if we took Moore, Thornton over Pope & Ezzard
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Speed kills. Go Canes
Our wide receiver room would have been lethal, but the team still needed a qb without his head in the sand. Maybe an underachiever like Pope would have got his act together with all that talent.Imagine if we took Moore, Thornton over Pope & Ezzard
I knew Ezzard when he was it HS. I was hoping he'd turn out better than he didImagine if we took Moore, Thornton over Pope & Ezzard
I understand the hindsight. I liked Hightowers upside but I remember plenty of people heeded warnings on Pope, his film showed limited route running and a tendency to get overwhelmed by more physical corners. I think lots of us overlooked that due to his very high 247 ranking.
For myself, I saw Pope at Paradise Camp was mesmerized, pause. Camp football has limitations, still, he showed as much ability as Devonta Smith who was a year older.
In fairness to Manny, he did bring in a 10.4 guy every single year. Unfortunately for us, it was at LB and that was their 40 timeManny was on that bullshetwe need to bring in at least one 10.4 guy every single year.
For me his speed gave and improvement in the weight room over time gave me the hope he'd prove the doubters wrong, but unfortunately for us the fears were exactly what was speculated. Once I started seeing weekly gas station selfies I knew we messed up.
I miss #786KittySpeed for days
