Going to ask a single, difficult question

Stop

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Once we started processing the handful or more of players

I think this is a fair topic to discuss without it being about bashing O or denigrating this class. But, do you think O got a little ahead of himself?

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Asking a player to wait until February to sign is not considered processing in my book. It is being precaustionary and doing what is best for the program. If they had waited there may be a spot for them.

Lets save all the class discussions until after signing day. We only have 24 more hours

The reality is, in order to pull off what Bama does (and a few others sometimes) - in attaining the best case scenario after missing on a higher priority recruit, you have to be willing to really hurt some kids ON signing day.

You have to keep those on-the-bubble kids happy, committed, and thinking they’ll be signing on signing day... till you get that higher priority recruit earlier that day.

And that’s when you have to tell the lesser recruit “sorry, we don’t have a spot for you”.

Meanwhile in a parallel universe, CRA-CRA posts the following on the TIGERSHITTINGS recruiting board:

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Once we signed the handful of marginal LA recruits to complete our early signing class, did we lose on any big name like McGlothern (who I think is going to be a super star)? Burch didn't sign and neither did Van Pran who lost his position coach. We should have been in a strong position to land these guys.

I'm not a fan of jumping the gun to fill the class with lesser prospects when we have a chance at filling up with better prospects. It looks like the full class is limiting us.

I think this is a fair topic to discuss without it being about bashing O or denigrating this class. But, do you think O got a little ahead of himself?

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Yes

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Here's a fact: I fully trust O and the staff.

Here's another fact: This recruiting class is absolutely excellent.

Here's a third fact: It could've been better.

All three of these things can be true at once, and I don't understand why discussing the third thing is off limits.

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Once we started processing the handful or more of players

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Who did we process and how do you know they were processed?

I’d argue that it appears that O’s strategy is similar to Clemson’s strategy prior to this year. Get the most high quality recruits you can but don’t settle on players just fill the class.

Basically if there is a bigger fish we think we have a shot at, go after the bigger fish and if we miss then we will figure it out. But don’t limit yourself by signing lower quality players just for numbers sake.

Obviously this plan is dependent on needs as well. For example we needed QBs in this class so we signed 2 guys with tons of potential even though they aren’t can’t miss type guys.

On the flip side, we signed 3 DTs so we didn’t need to keep Jordan Berry or Jalen Lee in the class just to sign guys. We’d add a 4th DT if it was a better prospect like Jackson but it really wasn’t a need.

Let me add that I have zero inside knowledge, this is just my attempt at connecting the dots of the decisions that were made.

I agree that it’s a quality post that shows that hindsight is 20/20.