All this dancing-around is humorous. Do we all have short-term memory loss? Part of the 'culture' of the last staff was one of "It Is What It Is". A culture that absolutely did NOT have the positive outlook on recruiting that this staff does and if it did, it never projected it. A culture that never ever made a video like this. A culture whose fans made excuses as to why we couldn't recruit nor compete at levels this staff thinks we can. At another forum, the "We can't be Stanford" debate was endless, as was the reasoning for why we couldn't beat Duke anymore.
This new staff's attitude is very refreshing and their results so-far are promising.
This whole post is bull hockey. Let's go through this one by one:
• There is
no such thing as a working football staff that doesn't have a positive outlook on recruiting. Ours did under CPJ; we have exactly the same number of 4 star recruits this year (i.e. 2 and one of those was CPJ's) that we had last year and had almost exactly the same recruiting rank as in 2017, the last time we had 20 scholarships to give. (You can check.) That
you never got the message isn't
their fault; it seemed to be working for the recruits.
• It is also true that none of Paul's coaches ever made a video like the one Key did. But that was because Paul wouldn't hire a blowhard, as some of these new kids seem to be. Also, the only explanation (not excuse) I ever heard Paul or his staff make about recruiting limits was that they had been starved for resources for many crucial years while Bobinski was at Tech and that TStan was going to do something about that. That's where the "It is what it is" statement came from, btw.
• I never heard Paul say word one about Stanford; that was the
fan's idea. As for not beating Duke, I invite you (again) to look at Paul's overall record against them and at the comparative analysis I did on recruiting awhile ago. We've had some recent trouble against them due to one thing only: they had the best QB in the ACC (Better then Lawrence? Yes.) for the last four years and a coach who knew how to use him. It happens.
Mind, I like the new staff's attitude and I look forward to seeing if it works next year on the field and in our recruiting. And, yes, the results so far are promising. But, really, this continuous juvenile posturing in your posts should end. Now.
