He was a natural fit at ND and is the most talented DL on the roster from day 1. Problem is he chose NIL, listened to money hungry family members and a bad defensive scheme for his play. 'Bama has already put about 30lbs on his frame and is trying to use him as a hybrid DT/DE.
Maybe not a stud but with Botelho and Burnham hurt and Oben disappointing he would be a pretty valuable piece for us right now. Especially at the position/size we recruited him for, not whatever Bama’s trying to do with him.
A 104 page thread on a kid that just was never as good as the recruiting services made him out to be. It's not his fault. He isn't the first and won't be the last. But he was never a Vyper or pass rusher. At best a SDE or the DT Alabama moved him to.
If he's not good enough for Bama he's not good enough for ND, unless Alabama tried to put a square peg in a round hole but even then, this is college football. If he was good he would play.
Maybe he was better in his original position at end. I thought that might have been the trouble with Tyson Ford for us. He was a highly recruited end, and we asked him to put on a shit ton of weight and play tackle. It never really worked.
100000000000% the guy was ELITE rushing the passer and you try to turn him into "Refrigerator" Perry??? All starts with the terrible decision to leave in the first place.
Keeley so bad his position is EDEG
Damnit, I was just about to post that word for word. LMAO
This always agreeing thing is reserved Macirish lol
Fair take.
Real talk right here. Plenty of us here need to hear this.
Also good reason not to - as is being discussed in the Skunk Bear thread - throw huge bags at high school kids. You don’t really know what you’ll get. Save that money for proven college football players, be they in the portal or on your own roster.
Nailed it. Your NIL money is best allocated to developed players you're retaining or transfers. A lot of this may become moot once we get to revenue sharing.
Do you ever get the sense you're shouting into the void? I've read several similar posts of yours, specifically on recruiting threads, attempting to separate yourself from others as not interested.
I agree to an extent but both players mentioned are true sophomores. There is still time to blossom or become dependable depth pieces or solid starters. Also agree with posters saying this is the reason to spend more NIL at retaining and transfer players.
No. Not really.
Right. I think it's a miserable idea. Especially in this era because, as you've stated, you can use your resources to go out and get a proven veteran who is capable of stepping in and helping you sooner than later.
As a walk on yes
Agreed spurned us once and now not good enough to make bama’s travel squad. He can enjoy the sunny south off my radar
Absolutely Bowen’s behavior with his commitment flip flopy hat game involved out and out lies to our staff and his fellow recruits in that class. Keeley just picked somewhere else way earlier so we could fill his spot and did it for more money and prestige which was more the “business decision”. Bowen in the end chose to stay home which would have been fine but for the lying behavior.
I’m beginning to buy into the idea that film and character are better than 5 stars. As long as you are elite at evaluating film. Not easy to do. But ND seems to get a lot more out of their 3-4 star players than most other teams do. With the obvious exception being at QB.
And after today I think it’s clear that Schuler is by far the better player.
Is Aiden Schuler our next Everett Ghoulston or Tommie Reese?
