Ron Cooper is the man!

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Does anyone remember how bad our secondary was before Ron Cooper got here

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not really. it was down for one year with the two dickheads at OC.

and we've had good players in the secondary whether they were top flight recruits or not. Landry, Hunt, Webster, Daniels, Steltz, Zenon, Jackson

I wouldnt trade our defensive staff for any in college football.

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This guy deserves alot of credit IMO.

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indeed he does, but your post almost makes it look like we went from getting bombed every yr to where we are now. our secondary's been pretty bad arse since 03, with good recruits to boot. 08 was an aberration.

Coop's got a track record going way back of finding diamonds where most people see coal.

He had some great DBs at South Carolina that nobody really recruited

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Claiborne(may have been 2 star), Mathieu, etc

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both should have been 4-5 stars, but their parents and coaches didn't handle their recruitment right. Didn't go to enough camps, etc, so we were the only school that knew about them.

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both should have been 4-5 stars, but their parents and coaches didn't handle their recruitment right. Didn't go to enough camps, etc, so we were the only school that knew about them.

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Claiborne(may have been 2 star), Mathieu, etc




both should have been 4-5 stars, but their parents and coaches didn't handle their recruitment right. Didn't go to enough camps, etc, so we were the only school that knew about them.

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Mathieu was a four star on Rivals.

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both should have been 4-5 stars, but their parents and coaches didn't handle their recruitment right. Didn't go to enough camps, etc, so we were the only school that knew about them.

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I think your choice of words is kind of sketchy. What is wrong about their handling of it? Both guys ended up starting at a BCSNC contending team in their second years. Not just that, but their parents didn't need to turn them over to the pimps and whores in the camp circuit to make that happen.

I tend to think that their parents handled their recruitment in a fantastic manner if that is the outcome. Who cares how many stars they had? Do you think someone like Belicheck will decide not to draft them because Tom Lugenbill had them ranked middle-of-the-pack out of high school?

We still had some studs after Saban left, but the secondary was getting worse and worse after he left and the move the move to bring in Cooper has made it one of the strengths of our entire team now. Of course we've had some studs, but it wasn't that studly when he arrived.

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One of these things is not like the other.

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I just threw that in there to see if anyone was paying attention.