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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 911063" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>The fact that Collins was fired 4 games into his 4th year kind of goes against your main point that he was given a long leash. </p><p></p><p>2019 was the transition class where Collins had about a month and a half or so between when he was hired and signing day. Needless to say you can't expect Johnson to recruit players for a system that he doesn't run, and just loading up on OLmen very late in a recruiting cycle isn't easy. </p><p></p><p>Collins first real class was the 2020 class and he brought in 6 OLmen (Rankins, Williams, Vaipulu, Green, Spiers, and Kootsouradis. That group is only, effectively, redshirt sophomores. If your plan is to hit on all 5 positions from one class so that they are ready as redshirt sophs then that's a bad plan and unlikely to work. Even so, you aren't going to be starting them as freshmen so you'll still need guys to play in the meantime. Look at our OL recruiting prior to 2019. </p><p></p><p>2018 2 OLmen</p><p>2017 had 4</p><p>2016 had 2</p><p></p><p>I'm sure there were some that were listed somewhere else that Johnson viewed as OLmen but we weren't overflowing with OLmen and considering the transition in what the line was going to be asked to do it shouldn't be hard to understand why we would go to the portal.</p><p></p><p>2019 we took Southers. </p><p>2020 we took Johnson and Cochran</p><p>2021 we took Pendley and Kirby </p><p>2022 we took 4 but all 2 had a full 4 years of eligibility left and two had 3 years of eligibility making them closer to recruits than instant impact transfer types. </p><p></p><p>You could make the argument that the 2022 class should have been less portal targets rather and more recruits but that has little impact on this year as OL recruits that are freshmen this year likely wouldn't have made a difference. Otherwise I think it's hard to argue that we took so many transfer OLmen that Key didn't have younger players to develop. After all we did load up in the 2020 class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 911063, member: 2299"] The fact that Collins was fired 4 games into his 4th year kind of goes against your main point that he was given a long leash. 2019 was the transition class where Collins had about a month and a half or so between when he was hired and signing day. Needless to say you can't expect Johnson to recruit players for a system that he doesn't run, and just loading up on OLmen very late in a recruiting cycle isn't easy. Collins first real class was the 2020 class and he brought in 6 OLmen (Rankins, Williams, Vaipulu, Green, Spiers, and Kootsouradis. That group is only, effectively, redshirt sophomores. If your plan is to hit on all 5 positions from one class so that they are ready as redshirt sophs then that's a bad plan and unlikely to work. Even so, you aren't going to be starting them as freshmen so you'll still need guys to play in the meantime. Look at our OL recruiting prior to 2019. 2018 2 OLmen 2017 had 4 2016 had 2 I'm sure there were some that were listed somewhere else that Johnson viewed as OLmen but we weren't overflowing with OLmen and considering the transition in what the line was going to be asked to do it shouldn't be hard to understand why we would go to the portal. 2019 we took Southers. 2020 we took Johnson and Cochran 2021 we took Pendley and Kirby 2022 we took 4 but all 2 had a full 4 years of eligibility left and two had 3 years of eligibility making them closer to recruits than instant impact transfer types. You could make the argument that the 2022 class should have been less portal targets rather and more recruits but that has little impact on this year as OL recruits that are freshmen this year likely wouldn't have made a difference. Otherwise I think it's hard to argue that we took so many transfer OLmen that Key didn't have younger players to develop. After all we did load up in the 2020 class. [/QUOTE]
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