MJMGator;n302048 said:
I saw that he had like a 50% completion rate for 10 TDs and 10 INTs as a senior in HS. Not the kind of production that gets you noticed.
If recruiting was as easy as reading the stats from the newspapers, all the cavemen would be doing it with great success.
This situation probably happens a lot. One coach, in this case OC Charlie Weiss, sees intriguing potential in some kid. But then he unexpectedly scoots off to some other job, a new OC (Peese) comes in who has to quickly assess what he has on the current roster and try to keep up the recruiting, and there's nobody else on the staff who really shares that same feeling about the kid. And the 10/10 stat certainly doesn't scream "Future All-Star in the making." So he falls off the radar screen, and ends up somewhere, feeling unloved and abused by the recruiting process.
One of the things that I really like about what Coach Mac has done, as I understand it, is to greatly bolster the back-end staff, who technically don't hold (or perform) coaching roles. But those people DO greatly deepen the institutional knowledge about recruits of interest. So now if any particular coach moves up and out, our "draft board" so to speak doesn't suddenly have big knowledge voids on it.
From the kid's point of view, he ended up with coaches who believed in him, and he's done very well. Gotta be happy about that for him. Sometimes what you get is a lot better than what you thought you wanted.
