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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 565781" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Like Rick, you have never understood how Paul recruited for the O. A short tutorial:</p><p></p><p>Look at our D recruiting under him. Pretty good, especially over the last 5 years. Plenty of 4 and high 3 star players. So why was the O recruiting different?</p><p></p><p>The easy answer - it was because of the offense we ran - is, in fact, the correct one. The O demanded a different type of player then most schools were after and we recruited to fit the positions and their requirements. Paul would have liked to get a lot of 4 and 5 star types and he offered. But he really wanted the diamonds in the rough and the players others overlooked because they didn't fit with shotgun spreads. A good example = Connor Hansen. Hansen was a low 3 star OL; he had one other P5 offer from UCF. He came to camp at Tech and was offered halfway through the first day. Why? Because he <em>fit</em>; a 6'2", 325 lb. guy who loves to hit people. It's as if he had been born to drive block. Did Paul care that he wasn't a 4 star? Why, no, he did not. He was what the O needed at guard or center. And getting someone like him handed to us was a - wait for it - <em>recruiting bump</em>.</p><p></p><p>If you look up and down our present offensive lineup you'll see plenty of people like that. That doesn't mean they aren't good football players; you can hear from our new staff about that. It's that they didn't fit the profile for a 4 star <em>shotgun spread</em> player coming out of high school and they weren't offered by teams that ran a shotgun as a consequence. And we got low overall recruiting rankings as a result.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm sure you knew all of this without me having to tell you. You simply don't like the consequences of thinking like Paul did. Well, now we'll have to recruit better and probably a lot better. We are now competing with everyone else and playing like everyone else. I hope we can see a real recruiting bump soon and that it lasts over years because, brother, we are really going to need it. And, as I keep saying, I think Coach can deliver it, if he is given the time and the infrastructure he needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 565781, member: 265"] Like Rick, you have never understood how Paul recruited for the O. A short tutorial: Look at our D recruiting under him. Pretty good, especially over the last 5 years. Plenty of 4 and high 3 star players. So why was the O recruiting different? The easy answer - it was because of the offense we ran - is, in fact, the correct one. The O demanded a different type of player then most schools were after and we recruited to fit the positions and their requirements. Paul would have liked to get a lot of 4 and 5 star types and he offered. But he really wanted the diamonds in the rough and the players others overlooked because they didn't fit with shotgun spreads. A good example = Connor Hansen. Hansen was a low 3 star OL; he had one other P5 offer from UCF. He came to camp at Tech and was offered halfway through the first day. Why? Because he [I]fit[/I]; a 6'2", 325 lb. guy who loves to hit people. It's as if he had been born to drive block. Did Paul care that he wasn't a 4 star? Why, no, he did not. He was what the O needed at guard or center. And getting someone like him handed to us was a - wait for it - [I]recruiting bump[/I]. If you look up and down our present offensive lineup you'll see plenty of people like that. That doesn't mean they aren't good football players; you can hear from our new staff about that. It's that they didn't fit the profile for a 4 star [I]shotgun spread[/I] player coming out of high school and they weren't offered by teams that ran a shotgun as a consequence. And we got low overall recruiting rankings as a result. Now, I'm sure you knew all of this without me having to tell you. You simply don't like the consequences of thinking like Paul did. Well, now we'll have to recruit better and probably a lot better. We are now competing with everyone else and playing like everyone else. I hope we can see a real recruiting bump soon and that it lasts over years because, brother, we are really going to need it. And, as I keep saying, I think Coach can deliver it, if he is given the time and the infrastructure he needs. [/QUOTE]
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