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****, I'm skeptical of Austin. I'll try to keep my mouth shut, but this staff has alot to prove. Better see some progress. You don't have to have the best athletes to look like you know how to play football.
I don't know if TE's are the answer either. Stoll is a competent blocker, but Allen and Rafdal are underpowered.
Look, I'm all in on Frost, but we can't fill gaps on a stretch play and we can't do any kind of zone blocking. That's not great athleticism. That's assignment football. Pretty much over no fear of failure. I like do your job or do your assignments.
Not sure this is a great comparison, but I played against him in HS and it seems somewhat relevant. But Darren Sproles is 5’6” 185lbs. He has been a stud since high school. He never had a problem.
Even more relevant, Wan’Dale was freshman of the week twice in a row at less than 200. And Rondale Moore at Purdue was Freshman of the year at less than 200 lbs. it has far more to do with the OL and overall blocking than size.
I think she is a good person. But she is misguided (as is Bernie). I hate she won't answer the question about single payer.
WGAS.
See my posting history. We should have paid Bo and Ed from LSU when we had a chance. We Ph((ed it up.
Dude, start with raising personal income and capital gains taxes at the highest level and closing tax loopholes/carried interest.
She's dangerous. And I am a solid Independent. I would vote for Trump over that crazy hag 10x on Sunday
A lot of people have underestimated Ed Oregan (sp?).
Of course you know I wanted a Paul Chryst type power football guru.
Look it up. He was drifting around when Bo was coach.
We could have hired his *** as Co-HC and Recruiting Coord
He can't talk, but he can recruit...
The point about single payer is I believe we can saves hundreds of billions per year on administrative costs.
I have studied this much.
Why raise taxes if we don't have to?
Millionaires arguing with millionaires. “We’ll tax the rich, we’ll tax the corporations.”
Guess who that gets passed down to. The friggin’ middle class working stiff will carry the load. The only ones that will benefit are the free **** bums & politicians. Lying swampers.
“Medicare for all” B/S, the G/D government can’t take care of our vets! Lying SOB’s.
Guess who that gets passed down to. The friggin’ middle class working stiff will carry the load. The only ones that will benefit are the free **** bums & politicians. Lying swampers.
“Medicare for all” B/S, the G/D government can’t take care of our vets! Lying SOB’s.
Is it the "government's" fault that it is hard to recruit enough doctors considering what doctors can make in the private sector?
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he might, he is 190+. He is also a high schools senior who may weigh 193 on Friday and 203 on Monday. He is a physical back. Not a thumper but watch the block on his highlight. The one where he springs his teammate for a TD. Kid is a really good fit for this O. He will need to get a little stronger but He is a real gamer.
You realize that player development is as important as bringing in good talent. Actually more important, because you are taking the raw talent of whatever level the player is when he arrives, and developing his strength, quickness, acceleration, and overall athleticism to its peak, and then pairing it with substantially improved technique, that will enable him to be a cog in an entire system on offense or defense. Of course the great programs are ones that take great talent coming into the program, and develop that talent like crazy.
Wisconsin is the result of bringing in good, but not great talent, and developing it to create a very strong program. USC and Miami are the result of bringing in great talent and not developing it. Which would you rather have, if given the choice? I know which one I want. The one that is 6-0, Top 10, with what, 4 shutouts this year?
Sure, we would all rather have great talent and great development, but TO and his staff did great things to take players that weren't as talented coming in, and make them part of a very successful system. And let's be honest...until we can recruit like Ohio State (which will be never), we are going to have to do it the old fashioned way.
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I disagree. I think Scott needs to keep bringing in guys that show promise early on, and get rid of guys that flash dud. TO is long-gone, and we aren't Wisconsin. If he can get some sort of stabilization in the football program, maybe we can build a pipeline. Our product on the field is bad. That has to be fixed first.
Sadly, that's true. It's so bad now that even a young, incredible Bo Jackson would probably get instantly stuffed about 80% of the time.
So...you think players just come in ready to play when they are 4 and 5-star players? That has been proven to not be the case so many times. If you don't have quality coaches when players get to the program, a lot of that talent will remain untapped. Sure, teams with highly rated rosters win more championships, but that talent has to be developed by good coaching staffs to get to the championship level.
Look at Florida State right now. Look at Miami for the last 18 years or so. Look at USC since Pete Carroll.
Here's a good one.. look at Ohio State under Luke Fickell. That program was transformed in one year, going from 6-7 under Fickell in 2011, to 12-0 in 2012 under Urban Meyer.
"Not being Wisconsin" actually supports my stance more than anything I've mentioned. We haven't had the coaching staffs that Wisconsin has had, and our higher-rated talent coming into our program has languished. And this year will be yet another lesson from Wisconsin in 'coaching matters.'
Fickell was an interim HC cleaning up the mess left behind when Jim Tressel exited. Given what he's done at Cincy the last couple of years (11-2 last year, and 5-1 so far this year), I wouldn't fault him for going 6-7 in a throw-away year.
Overall, I get what you're saying, and agree with most of it. Wisconsin's recruiting classes aren't usually rated that high....but they get outstanding results.
I agree 4 and 5 star players need to be developed too. I see a lot of the 4 star players around the country we were targeting are actually playing. But a large part of what determines how good they are is how well they are developed and coached. The ones I see at Oregon, Wisconsin, Penn State, etc. are playing well. The ones I see at Louisville, UCLA, etc. aren't playing well.
I think a lot of the 4 stars we've had here recently that were thought of as busts are really just guys who have never been coached properly so they never developed. If we did have better coaching, I'm sure some of them would have lived up to their 4 star rating and turned into good players.