diehardg8r
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He needed a GPA booster on the roster and someone to hold the clip board. I think Kyle's Uncle owns a fishing boat and does alot of shark fishing as well. He had NO clue.
McElwain and recruiting
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Not all 2* are the same...him sticking around and playing at his HS as a backup instead of going to another school obviously skewed this. He is not a 2* talent just he let himself get stuck in a bad situation if getting D1 scholarship offers was the goal.
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I'm not a fan of Mac. However, Trask came to camp at UF, Mac saw him, recognized talent and was impressed enough to give him an offer him. I don't have much nice to say about Mac, but this is one instance where he did a good job. Donk is blinded by hatred. Mac is a good coach for Central Mich; he was just way over his head at UF.
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I do.
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Its difficult to think about the cumulative acts and omissions of the last regime without becoming irate. No, fvvk that guy he didn’t do sh!t but destroy everything he could lay a glove on at UF while laughing all the way to the bank on the way out the door. Trask is a success in spite of him, just like Will Grier should have been. Pass the nitro glycerin before I stroke out.
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That
was laziness not brillance.
He also saw LDR as clearly superior to Grier, and said it often.
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Nobody loved that ignorant quiverlipping, gravy dropping on his shirt fool like ole AR did.
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Taking a 200,000,000:1 longshot because you are too incompetent to land any QBs anyone else wants (that really includes Giraffe too) isnt an accomplishment.
We tried for dozens of other QBs (and every other position) and failed spectacularly.
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He had that kid at Ole Miss no one wanted lined up to. He loved to accept those misfit toys.
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I forgot about that cokehe.... errr, dude with the "Grier-problem".
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You know what they say about broken clocks. I agree Trask is talented, but he also benefited from Two years with Mullen and Co. Doubt he would have ever looked the way he does now if Nuss and Butters were calling plays.
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Annatto tooth polish must kill brain cells.
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Agree. I think what we're also seeing with Trask is the benefit of just sticking things out, putting your head down and improving. If this were any period prior to around the mid-90's, Trask's success wouldn't be shocking at all. It was commonplace for midlevel recruits to redshirt, spend 2-3 years learning the system in practice(without the shellshock of real games) and then emerge as an upperclassmen. The landscape has just changed so much and we routinely see freshman starting right out of the gate. It's a credit to Kyle for putting in work and being patient. Mullen said as much after the Uk game. He's a throwback in more ways than one.
And as for JM's overall recruiting, the criticism was for more than just not landing elite talent. There was no depth recruited behind the handful of solid players he did land. Case in point, the uga game last year. Henderson goes down and we're left watching McWilliams all afternoon. Stewart suspended, and it's back the JT show. The drop down is tremendous. Any time we have multiple defensive players, whose offers were all G5 programs, starting, it's an obvious problem.
