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Yeah, after further evaluation, I'm gonna go ahead and take the coaching staff's eval on this over the recruiting sites. I'll be frank, 247 has been REALLY off their mark lately. Somebody on another site mentioned the departure of Barton Simmons to join Lea's staff at Vandy. I think his absence...

Talent is the primary issue. Lea did a lot of things great, but recruiting wasn't one of them. Keep in mind, ND completely whiffed at LB in '20 and took 1 guy in '21 who is no longer here. That isn't a winning formula. They banked heavily on 1 LB class and a lot of those guys simply had...

You also need to be able to scout. Recruiting rankings matter, but they're also VERY flawed, and players consistently fall through the cracks because of how limited the resources these services have compared to the sheer number of players needed to scout per class. Freeman isn't offering...

I never said he wasn't worth the scholarship. What I said was that he wasn't a plus athlete, and that was a common gripe with him especially in 2021. The general consensus was that the final years under Kelly with Lea as the DC, the recruiting/scouting on defense wasn't particularly good. I'd...

Freeman isn't offering a guy off of "a few splash plays". Your example of Clarence Lewis was also pretty bad, considering Lewis wasn't a plus athlete at corner. This guys is very clearly a plus athlete at LB.

The saying is "film don't lie". This is a guy who is long, rangy and athletic and it translates to the film. That is the key here. I don't know if he's a legit sub 4.5, but he looks plenty fast and athletic. People shouldn't act so surprised. This guy fits the profile of what Freeman has...

DE: Bryce Young DT: Owen Wafle DT: Justin Scott DT: Jayden Jackson/Sean Sevillano DE: Cole Mullins DE: Mylachi Williams/Loghan Thomas Outside shot for Rushing too. I think Scott is a realistic get right now, but they'd probably take both Jackson and Sevillano if Scott goes elsewhere for rea$on$.

I think the problem is that at ND, he wasn't going to see as many carries as last year. It wasn't going to be a 1a/1b situation with him and Estime. I wouldn't say Payne or Price "pushed him out", but it's very evident that Payne had a huge spring and was earning a bigger role, as well as...

The f*ck? Forget ND, what the f*ck has Florida State done to warrant being ranked #3? They beat all of 2 teams with a winning record last year. They barely got by an OU team that was circling the drain. And Texas? What the hell am I missing here? Went 8-5 in a really weak Big XII. Also...

Shit, he could be any one of us! He could be you... He could be ME!

I think Keeley wasn't shopping himself. I think people within his inner circle were though.

I think Keeley was primarily NIL. Alabama offered him months prior to him even decommitting. Suddenly, the mutterings about the NIL cash and the "uncle" emerge and then Keeley is all of a sudden blocking fellow '23 classmates on social media. I think that plot was lost because of all the time...

As Philly correctly posted, ND took a smaller class. And let's be real, NIL wasn't the only factor, but it was a major factor. Does ND lose Keeley, Bowen and Moore if NIL isn't a differentiating factor? You'd be hard to argue that they would. It didn't help that Edwards had a major...

I'll gladly take White production, though Urlacher appears to be a bigger player. White was 5'10 and just over 200 as a college senior. Urlacher is 6'1 and almost 200 entering his final year in HS. And he also has the genes of a dude who went through a pretty substantial growth spurt leaving...

Makes sense from Ohio State's end. Not from Styles'. Ohio State has been taking flyers left and right to bolster the numbers in their secondary, on top of returning both starters from last season. So uh, why would you, Lorenzo, think you have any better shot of getting legitimate playing time...

Buchner to Alabama made some sense. Rees recruited him and coached him, which gives him a good shot of earning the starting gig at Bama. This doesn't make a lot of sense. I get Styles has a brother there and his dad loves them, but let's be realistic here. If he wasn't going to contribute to...

Yeah, well Buchner is trying to start in '23. Surprisingly, he has a better shot to start at Bama in '23 than ND. I think the fact that Kollie didn't stick is that he realized his role in the rotation was not going to expand, namely because again, he got passed up. Diggs WAS a 1A. That's...

They're not completely sure, but they say, at worst, ND is 2nd. So it seems like Ohio State and ND are fairly neck and neck, and USC is a pretty sizable 3rd.

Yep. This isn't stemming from just 1 good spring game showing. Payne has apparently been a force all spring.

I think it's as simple as this. Diggs saw a situation at RB where he was going to have a diminished role. It was inevitable. Last year, he and Estime were the 1a/1b backs. He had the most carries of any back. That wasn't going to happen this year. Estime is going to be the feature back and...