I disagree with your last statement. If CGC does not succeed then he looks bad for not being able to coach the upgraded talent that he brought in. It will not make better marketing/recruiting look dumb. Some fans may not like some if the things he is doing but he is getting the attention of recruits. At the very worse he makes it easier for the next coach to succeed.
That's more or less what I meant. Sometimes my thoughts and expressions of them don't quite make it out there correctly.
Only one of the transfers was from last years class. The rest were all at least redshirt freshman. It’s hard to get quite as excited about guys who were struggling to get playing time elsewhere as guys fresh out of high school with similar ratings.
Yea because our talent pool is definitely on the same level as Texas, Bama, and USCe.
You are right. Still they are freshmen with 4 years of eligibility. I could understand if they were upperclassmen not getting playing time. Just because a freshman, redshirt or true, is not getting major playing time at another school does not mean they will not end up a productive player for us. Too many fans judge freshmen like what they see currently is all they will ever be and a high school recruit is going to automatically be better. I'll take talented kids however we can get them whether high school or transfer.
Get excited. I assure you that it is harder to be in the rotation at Texas, Alabama, SC and Miss State. Then throw in Cochran 32 game starter from Vandy and potential 1-2 year star edge rusher. This is a A really good class with more to come.
My point was just that getting a highly rated recruit out of high school generates more excitement than getting a previously highly rated recruit who didn’t choose us initially and couldn’t crack the depth chart at the school they did choose. It doesn’t mean they won’t turn into great players here. Transfers never generate all that much excitement unless they are big name QBs stuck behind other big name QBs.
Love the marketing. Many of us said for years that Tech was always Atlanta’s original team. That was actually the name I used years ago when I wrote on FTRS. Hope we never let go of the 404. Now we just need to make it synonymous with winning.
Can’t you both be right about this?
Normally I would agree, but these aren't Juniors and seniors that couldn't crack the lineup. They are freshmen who from all indications just wanted to get closer to home.
High School recruits get more fan fare than transfers unless you are a Fields type player. In our case this year, getting two freshman who were higher rated than anyone in our class excites me more than a 3 star recruit. There is no shame in not cracking Alabama’s starting line up your redshirt freshman year and by all accounts Watson played well in his action at Texas. Pendley fills a void in our 2019 class where we had no OL recruits, and the white and Cochran are supposed to have draft potential. Add a true freshman DT in a position of need, and I think that’s a very successful transfer class. Only time will tell on how impactful these players will be.
What are your thoughts on the grad transfer for Ohio State that just broke Eddie George’s 25 year old rushing record? Not much excitement?! Gave me goosebumps when he did it.
White and Cochran will be upgrades. The other guys? Folks were touting Ezzard and Clayton the same way. We’ll see how it works. There are reasons Scott, Pendley, and Harris didn’t see playing time. The transfer miss rate is much higher than recruiting misses. Analysts openly admit this, which is why the sites don’t include transfers in class rankings.
Um, yeah because they were freshmen. They all play on the lines and not many freshmen can play significant minutes on the lines in college. Also, in Harris's case, they wanted him to be a 3-4 OLB, but he is a 4-3 DE and there is a difference.
Of course there are reasons why freshmen did not see mich playing time. Same as there are reasons our freshmen did not see much playing time except their original teams have much more talent.
Harris and Pendley were at Bama and Ms. State for two years. Pendley had minimal playing time and Harris never saw the field. Expecting them to come in and be game changers is anything but certain. Scott was a 3 star, ranked as the 62nd DT in his class. He wouldn’t have been viewed as a star recruit had he signed with us last year.
I would be excited about any 6'4 300 lb DT that signed with us. I can care less about ratings on DT. Look at their size and then look at their film like with Zeek Biggers.
Ezzard played and had some contributions. He didn’t crack the lineup at Miami but he was redshirting. He had to sit out all of last year. He has 3 years to contribute more. This is the equivalent of calling Dontae Smith a bust after last season.