Re: 6th Clutch 4th Q drive (in about last 13 games)
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:04 am
footballdad wrote:Yeah, so Hicks is now one of the best players Morris ever recruited........ which tells us all we need to know about Morris recruiting.....and Stallions pathetic defense of it.
Morris’ recruiting was neither as good as stallion hyped it, nor as bad as you have made it out to be. I’ll concede that he did leave some holes at linebacker, receiver,, recruited dbs that were forced to play too early (and really needed to redahirt( and didn’t build legit depth at qb because the commit defected right before signing day 2 years in a row.
That being said, many are making a big deal of the “holes” dykes had to plug after Morris turned over the roster...note, the HOLES needed to be filled, as in Morris brought the ship from beneath the surface, drained all of the water out and now dykes needs to do some patchwork. In 2015 this team had no talent overall with a couple of gems that had no depth behind them. If we averaged out the talent level, let’s call that a 60 overall. He left with a 75 overall talent level, with 2/3 of his recruits still being redshirt sophomores and freshmen, many of whom are showing potential. You’re expecting 3* sophomores to be game changers?
Some of these guys were recruits that were going to need a few years to develop. If Morris missed on them, then so did many other top G5 and mid-level P5 coaches, judging by their offer lists. I seriously doubt that Morris just so happened to take every single recruit that all of his peers and recruiting rivals were wrong about.
And yes, by results (not talent), Ben Hicks is one of the best players Morris recruited. If I had told you before hicks signed that he was going to rewrite all of the school passing records but would have inconsistent accuracy, you would have said let’s look elsewhere?
Football dad 2015: Ben hicks is not a D1 qb, despite what Morris, Herman , klingsbury, harbaugh, and mcelwain all say. I know better.
Football dad 2016: Ben hicks is only going to break records because he will play for four years
Football dad 2017: Ben hicks is only killing it because he has a good team
Football dad 2018: see, I told you he sucks! Look how poorly he’s doing with little to no running game, only a couple of competent running backs and receivers, a young offensive line that has been playing all season without a real o-line coach, terrible play calling, he’s awful!