Recruiting 2023 Recruiting Thread: 4* OT Caden Jones completes the class
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This is a legacy uga kid. His father has stated that his son in no way has any pressure at all to go to uga and he expects his kid to make his own way. Here are the comments from Justice Haynes' father, Verron Haynes, after the visit today. His mom went to UF.
I'd be lying if I didn't say that right now, as far as all the whole recruiting goes, they did the best thus far from the standpoint of courting Justice the athlete and courting Justice the person.
The good thing about it is a few people on the staff I actually know personally. I played with three people on the staff, so I got the really real behind the scenes. So these are my brothers that I bled, sweat and teared with. So it was great to know that it wasn't just a facade. They got a text, 'Haynes is on the ground and all hands is on deck.' It was awesome. It was awesome. Definitely you could tell that he was a priority."
They came with it. I mean, went over to the athletics department and you could just tell that the dean knew about it, what major he wanted. So they had a facility over there where they facilitated him, as far as the journalism part of it, and broadcast journalism, but specifically they knew that he wants to do business, so they were able to show him a portfolio and educate him on that side of it.
It's not one detail that they missed.
When we rolled around to it, their film study on exactly the plays that they run, which is exactly what Justice runs- and they showed the cut-ups, so the variations there of how Justice, the dynamic burst that he has and low center of gravity, the physicality he plays with... he was just able to show the system coincides with what he does now. The verbiage may change, but ultimately it does coincide with each other.
A genuine vibe. Sincerity. He, ultimately, we got the fact that he's going to coach him hard. And here's the thing, he's going to have love for the kid, too. For me, what I look for in a coach is, one, the philosophy of how they interact with their players and his method of teaching, which he was open to learning how each one of his players (responds), because everybody's different. So he wants to know, and he's receptive to, how you learn. He's going to figure out whether you're a visual guy or more of an intellectual guy where I have to go up there and write it and draw it on the board, or do you have to see it and walk through it, whatever. So that lets me know he's patient to a degree and he puts in the time.
It still has a process, right? But that's the way that every recruiting visit should go.
The good thing about it is a few people on the staff I actually know personally. I played with three people on the staff, so I got the really real behind the scenes. So these are my brothers that I bled, sweat and teared with. So it was great to know that it wasn't just a facade. They got a text, 'Haynes is on the ground and all hands is on deck.' It was awesome. It was awesome. Definitely you could tell that he was a priority."
They came with it. I mean, went over to the athletics department and you could just tell that the dean knew about it, what major he wanted. So they had a facility over there where they facilitated him, as far as the journalism part of it, and broadcast journalism, but specifically they knew that he wants to do business, so they were able to show him a portfolio and educate him on that side of it.
It's not one detail that they missed.
When we rolled around to it, their film study on exactly the plays that they run, which is exactly what Justice runs- and they showed the cut-ups, so the variations there of how Justice, the dynamic burst that he has and low center of gravity, the physicality he plays with... he was just able to show the system coincides with what he does now. The verbiage may change, but ultimately it does coincide with each other.
A genuine vibe. Sincerity. He, ultimately, we got the fact that he's going to coach him hard. And here's the thing, he's going to have love for the kid, too. For me, what I look for in a coach is, one, the philosophy of how they interact with their players and his method of teaching, which he was open to learning how each one of his players (responds), because everybody's different. So he wants to know, and he's receptive to, how you learn. He's going to figure out whether you're a visual guy or more of an intellectual guy where I have to go up there and write it and draw it on the board, or do you have to see it and walk through it, whatever. So that lets me know he's patient to a degree and he puts in the time.
It still has a process, right? But that's the way that every recruiting visit should go.
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Probably. Its Baxter and _________ for me. I like Kaleb Jackson's tape better anyways.
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@neteng my kids went to BT and I’ve been watching Haynes since he was a freshman. Really, really exciting player to watch. Also have heard he is a really good kid and well liked by his teammates. His dad keeps telling folks that where his son plays is up to his son; no pressure to go to Ugly at all. We’ll see I guess.
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This is a good watch. Basically, way too early to worry and it would be a bigger worry if we had commits from the lower hanging fruit players right now. September is when we should start worrying. We need to be pulling in players that have a rating above 91 and if we find ourselves in September with a class avg below that then we need to worry.
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I love Will. I might have his babies. He does lean on others who also do "moneyball" analysis.
He soured on Mullen in May/April of 2018 when his bump class was ranked pretty high due to quantity not quality. Coaches can either recruit or they can't. They hit the ground running or they don't. They don't get better at it. Winning has very little to do with pulling better players. But losing hurts.
I don't how much NIL will move the needle but if not for NIL I'd bet on Napier pulling top 3 classes. Let's hope we can take advantage of NIL.
This situation doesn't have the same feel as the previous three stooges who all had clearing weaknesses from the start.
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Top 100 DL Derrick LeBlanc is back in God’s country today. He practically lives in Gainesville already he visits so much. I don’t understand why he hasn’t committed yet.
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What exactly does he gain by committing now?
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My thought is, if you are already visiting Gainesville this much, why not commit? But, that could be bad from an NIL perspective. Committing early might cost him money.
