re: Courtney Gardner Commits!! 2013 #2 JUCO WR

Imo Gardner is a bonus take. With the way things currently stand the staff can reassure Leslie that he is the priority as a big JC wr and that he's the only assured guy to get in. Basically this shouldn't cause any waves with Leslie. The kicker is that Leslie has to enroll in January. If he fails to do so I'd expect that he will be hard to hold on to unless the staff moves away from Gardner. In that scenario, I say take Leslie and move on. Leslie is in no real danger of not getting in, just the danger of not enrolling early. We have to have at least 1 big, ready to play wr in the program and if the scenario breaks down to where both enroll in the summer then Leslie is the surest bet. If both can be manuevered then great.

Back to how Gardner is a bonus, assuming Leslie is in, Gardner is a guy that doesn't hold up the class nor cause waves in the class. If he makes it then great for us but if he doesn't then nothing lost and we have Leslie to play that role. The spot for Gardner just moves to the loaded '14 class.

Here's to hoping things work out perfectly and Leslie enters in January with Gardner flanking him by enrolling in the summer.