Re: Some good points NcJacket....Offers alone
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can not be used to judge a class EITHER....There are many cases where that is decieving...Kids like the Johnson kid out of MO. We did NOT offer but he claimed we did. There was also a story from last year that I read that a certain BigTime school offered a kid because he told them someone else had offered and they found out that No other Big Schools had offered..He ended up signing and the Head Coach was hot about it..If anyone remembers that story and the school it was Remind me...It was i believe Lsu or Oklahoma? Also some kids are told by certain coaches they have a Sholly waiting for them But it is NOT reported...A lot of things/Offers go on behind the scenes Info.Us avg. fans are not Privy too. One other big factor as to not relying on offers alone IS as was the case For Darius Walker, He was not offered by Some schools like ugag as they DONT need RB's. (Now I know he was offered by some good schools..But there are some very good players that dont get offered (One poster just gave a great example of ones GT got from his area that have gone on to the NFL)A lot of times certain schools dont offer as it wouldnt be a good fit (i.e. Depth they already have or Style of play they play that would not fit a player that might fit our style of play i.e. a Running team as we are )Inside info. from Buford and his Dad also indicated that there was a good possibilty Walker would have signed with GT had it not been that we ARE loaded at RB. His Dad said, that Darius wanted early PT and that that eliminated GT..At Notre Dame he will get a shot at early PT..
I like your main point...The real question as Chan has stated, CAN this prospect play at this level and CAN he help us and DOES he fit our system...imho
can you imagine what everyone would have been saying Had Walker (whom many said and some last night on TV WAS the best player in this State and Not Miller) signed with GT...In a year where we were graduating some RB's it would have been likely...
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BW, the guy you are talking about was a WR from the Pittsburg area that in fact committed to GT. He had sent info on himself to all the recruiting services with some bogus stats from his junior year. He reported offers from a ton of schools and then reported commiting to GT. He was ranked as a 3 star WR by Rivals and Insiders until all of the sudden Scott Kennedy or someone called his HS coach. When his Coach found out about all that he laughed and told them this kid wasn;t cut out to play football at any level. Once they realized that the kid was a fraud they erased him from the database.
There is also a story that was run last year about a guy who made up this figment DL lineman from Gulf Port Mississippi that was supposed to be all world back in the early 90's. Apparently he got rated a 4 or 5 star recruit by about every mag out there. Coaches actually called his High school asking for game film, and others actually offered this bogus guy a scholarship. A coach from Ole Miss actually drove down tot he HS in the middle of no where to meet the kid, when the HS coach was like "Who the hell are you talking about." Anyway, the bogus recruit ended up getting like 4 scholarship offers. Forest Davis I think was the one who exposed the whole thing. But it's funny to say the least.
