Damn hes fast. Great blitzer, and has excellent pursuit angles and edge containment. Could use a little more muscle and some tackling improvement, but this guy will be able to blow up plays! Hope we can land him.
Yeah, relatively speaking, he's pretty small. Hopefully his frame can handle another 25 pounds or so. If nothing else, dude is quick and will help on passing downs.I'm guessing because of his size. Based on this picture of him standing next to Ruud, who is 6'2/240, Mauga can't be more than 6'0/210. He's going to need to hit the weight room hard this offseason.
As we have found out JUCO talent doesn't always translate to P5 talent. Taking the best 15 or 20 plays of the year can make any player look like NFL talent. Having only 1 other offer is a bit concerning. My fear on Frost and his staff coming in was going after the same type of players as then did at UCF. AAC talent is not going to cut it long term in the BIG.Looks like this guy is visiting this weekend. I had not heard of the guy until the other day. It looks like he doesn't have a ranking yet and his only offers are from Nebraska and San Diego State.
I looked at his HUDL highlights and they are impressive. I know nothing about this level of competition or anything like that, but his athleticism and hitting are impressive.
https://247sports.com/Video/Juco-Highlight-9556184/
It is a different age of football though. Back in the 90s a kid would sit for 4 or 5 years just for the opportunity for 13 games their senior year...nobody is going to do that anymore...kids are gone after two years if they don't sniff the field...so you are basically being forced to consider playing redshirt freshman just to keep them around, and can't bench them or else they jump in the portal. Might as well bring in a hungry juco kid who has a chip and maybe a titch of loyalty vs. having to pander to instagram star freshman.I don't think going for JUCOs is ever a Plan A for P5 kinds of programs unless there is really a diamond in the rough you think everyone else missed. Something bad happens and you have to adjust.
That's the thing, I'd rather bring in a late bloomer who's lighting up the juco scene than a transfer who's not good enough to earn playing time at his current school. Not to mention transferring doesn't show having a whole lot of loyalty to the team.It is a different age of football though. Back in the 90s a kid would sit for 4 or 5 years just for the opportunity for 13 games their senior year...nobody is going to do that anymore...kids are gone after two years if they don't sniff the field...so you are basically being forced to consider playing redshirt freshman just to keep them around, and can't bench them or else they jump in the portal. Might as well bring in a hungry juco kid who has a chip and maybe a titch of loyalty vs. having to pander to instagram star freshman.
That's the thing, I'd rather bring in a late bloomer who's lighting up the juco scene than a transfer who's not good enough to earn playing time at his current school. Not to mention transferring doesn't show having a whole lot of loyalty to the team.
He’s a 3 to play 2 right? Played DB last year and got big and now a LB?
the one thing that kind of concerns me is he’s played on 2 years of really bad defenses. Of course it’s not an end all, but when Scott keeps preaching having to teach guys to win and brings in a kid who just came from a Juco that went 2-7 & 3-7 on an awful defense just seems kind of funny
I mean I can’t judge this kids. No so-called experts are really judging him either. His stats & highlights could be all from garbage time and against second string. I don’t know. He could also be neon bordeaux. What I do know, this is a “put your *** on the line recruit”. If he commits and doesn’t do anything, that’s a bullet for Frost haters. Sure lots of kids don’t pan out. Lots of Jucos don’t pan out. But when you offer a super under the radar kid like this and he doesn’t pan out, you look like a fool
Gotta build the Poly pipeline back up. This kid looks like a good reach if you want to call it that.