Don’t look now but recruiting is looking good.
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What??? He went undefeated (12-0) in his second season. Where do you get that BS from?
Funny how people remember things differently. Clemson’s first ACC Championship of the Swinney Era was 2011. I went back and looked at that roster of “middle of the pack players” and found at least 23 players that went on to play in the NFL. DeAndre Hopkins, Martavis Bryant, Sammy Watkins, Andre Ellington, Dwayne Allen, Chandler Catanzaro just to name a few. Significantly more than any USC team in history.
Meanwhile the upstate team just picked up one of the top OL in the country right in Texas and A&M's backyard. But yeahhh the recruiting is going great in Gamecock country lol 3 Star Central
Who? Sewell? Reed? I certainly think that is really overstating how good they are, particularly Sewell. Texas gave Sewell an offer, but didn't really push very hard. Clemson is getting their usual 4-stars out of Georgia. Up to seven already from that state. Clemson is far from done.
I played football. I didn't know I sucked at it until just now because nobody on any team I was on ever stuck their fingers in my ass.
Looked it up, Sewell. The write up had him #2 or #3 guard or interior lineman from different services.
I'm sure a different service will rate him differently though.
That sounds odd for Texas to not push for him unless they saw something others didn't.
I think the Texas OL coach (who came from Alabama) wants his interior lineman huge and tackles tall and athletic. He has interior commitments from guards weighing 345 and 340, while his tackle commitments are 6ft6 and 6ft5. It is really hard to project OL. Different coaches want different attributes for different style offenses. I imagine they would have taken Sewell, but he never sounded like a priority.
247 has Markus Deal as the No.6 overall OL. Texas is going after him hard to play DT not OL. The guy Texas wants the most is Miles McVay out of St Louis. 6ft6, 358, that's big. Yet 247 has him the 41st OL, while Sewell was 17.
Texas has definitely shown itself to be better at evaluating talent than Clemson over the years.
Can't view today's recruiting through old lenses. For Beamer, he has to have consistent results before he starts landing those higher stars. Right now he is selling hopes and dreams. However, he gets to even some of that out through the portal.
For Clemson, Dabo has already shown some adaptation with his June camp. It has resulted in one of the hottest recruiting stretches he has had. Loading up on the lines and at linebacker. Clemson has Klubnik and now Vizzina signed, one of them will work out to be pretty dang good, just need some consistent receivers to catch for them.
The other thing to consider is that ncaaf cannot keep going at this pace. It is just a matter of time in the next couple years where there will be some sort of restrictions I believe.
For Clemson, Dabo has already shown some adaptation with his June camp. It has resulted in one of the hottest recruiting stretches he has had. Loading up on the lines and at linebacker. Clemson has Klubnik and now Vizzina signed, one of them will work out to be pretty dang good, just need some consistent receivers to catch for them.
The other thing to consider is that ncaaf cannot keep going at this pace. It is just a matter of time in the next couple years where there will be some sort of restrictions I believe.
We had some bad coaches under Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. The guy making OL evaluations now is Kyle Flood the O-line coach that we hired away from Alabama. When he left his line there had just won the Joe Moore Award and was anchored by two consensus first-team All-Americans in Outland Trophy winner LT Alex Leatherwood and Rimington Trophy winner C Landon Dickerson.
Gotta be restrictions. What’s going on now is chaotic at best
I agree with you, but I don't think you're getting that toothpaste back in the tube..... There will be screaming, yelling, and gnashing of teeth if the ncaa tries to restrict anything now - jmo.
I think a really easy restriction would be back to sitting out a year. The free agency feel would disappear quickly.
I don’t believe sitting out a year is ever going to return…don’t see how they could legally hold that up in court if they tried
I'll admit to not being up on the legality of it being tossed, but I bet they could write an enforceable rule on it.
But there's admittedly two aspects. Can you make an enforceable rule? And would that rule make any difference?
I could research the legality standpoint, but for now, I do believe sitting out a year would headb off the free agent free for all that is just starting.
“Can't view today's recruiting through old lenses. For Beamer, he has to have consistent results before he starts landing those higher stars. Right now he is selling hopes and dreams. However, he gets to even some of that out through the portal.”
True. A new coach has a window to sell the future before the future finally presents itself to recruits in the form of actual results. Hope he at least matches last years win total. But really needs to increase.
True. A new coach has a window to sell the future before the future finally presents itself to recruits in the form of actual results. Hope he at least matches last years win total. But really needs to increase.
"During his second year as head coach of the Tide, Saban led his team from a sub-par season in 2007 to a perfect 12–0 regular season record. "
Nick Saban - Wikipedia
Not significantly more. Count how many of our guys from 2010 team that beat Bama played on Sunday’s. It’s damn close to that number. Difference is we don’t do it consistently.
Three-Point Stance: Arch effect, realignment drama, overlooked commitments
Analyst Nick Harris addresses how Arch Manning's commitment to Texas has paid big dividends for the Longhorns.
We don’t know how good either Sewell or Reed will be! Overstating, Both are rated high nationally and both are from the state of Texas! With Manning coming in I would want the best OL I could possibly get even as a back up! If your your 2nd string is as good as your 1st team, then you should have great team a NC caliber team
I’m no attorney, thank God, but I see a lot of precedent for allowing this. If they are going to be treated as “pros” in some regard, there are plenty of regulations about who can play and when they can play.
You won’t know if they are big gets for a few years. Deebo Samuel told me to say that.
Dear Christian…..I was a very good player, played at a high level, showered with the team, had lots of friends, AND never had the desire to stick my fingers in a guy’s butt (on or off the field). You are a clown.
Great recruiting is a 24/7 job. There is no such thing as an early time in recruiting. You also gotta hope some the best players you are after commit early so they can attract other players. After all, good players like to play with other good players if possible. You know the old saying "What have you done for me lately?"
Yep. It’s like being a territory sales rep. You can’t ignore a customer when they’re not buying and then hound them to death when they’re about to. You better be calling on them steadily.
The two commitments we've gotten thus far this month are both 4-star rated per Rivals, as well as per the other site. That is, they were 4-star rated prior to committing to South Carolina, which means that for the next ratings update, they both will drop. I think their rating pre-South Carolina commitment gives the better idea of their overall ratings. But it shows that it was a solid start to July recruiting season, to say the least.
That is, at least until the next ratings update comes out......
That is, at least until the next ratings update comes out......
Ranked in the top 25 nationally now. #23 in Rivals team ratings.
Notice how tall the DBs are. 6ft1, 6ft1, and 6ft3. Small fast CBs just can't cover the 6ft4 and 6ft5 WRs everyone now has. The days of fast 5ft9 CBs like Darrell Green is past.
As are the days of the 5’8” point guards. Unless a Muggsy Boggs, Mister Jennings or Spud Webb comes along. They can play in any era. A great 5’9” CB can still play, but he’d have to be exceptional. Games evolve. Maybe they’ll come back around.
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