Signing Day
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 10:27PM Hooray!
I'll let the FanHouse trouble you with the logistics. Here's CFR's Recruiting Links page. Yes, it's disorganized. Yes, a re-organization is on the laundry list.
Plus, take a look at 10 Impact Recruits - Part I and Part II.
Also, Heisman Pundit takes a look at this year's signing class and handicaps the future Heisman Trophy candidates. Nicely done.
Finally, feel free to talk about your favorite recruits, the state of your program or whatever else in the comments below.
Oh, and Noel Devine to West Virginia. Wow. But does he have the grades? White + Slaton + Devine = hell for everyone else in D-IA.
Bonus: For cheap thrills, entertain yourself with the recruit videos at Rivals and Scout. Maybe you'll even bump into Rivals' Ashley Russell.
Update: CFR friend Chip is providing signing day updates at the Heisman Pundit site.
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...But on only one side of the ball.
I am updating breaking news on signings all day at HP's site, heismanpundit.com.
Chip
In those years Booby was a offensive innovator, he didn't have the talent of a Michigan or Alabama, but if his team was on tv you watned to watch because you wanted to see what trick play he did next or how his exciting offense made people look bad.
as FSU started winning they stared getting the best recruits in the country and they got a first class defense and they dominated for 12 years.
Now FSU has a boring offense...and they are far from being innovators...they underachieve...and now they aren't even recruiting that well.
They may pull out one more 10-2 in the next 3 years, but they won't win a MNC until they re-make the offense and I doubt bowden will or can do it.
I use the phrase "curse of talent" in several ways, but it applies to many schools.
I think sometimes coaches rest on their laurels, try to keep things simple instead of innovating and are content to simply haul in talent and let it do ALL the work.
Look at USC since Chow went away. The offense is more complicated but less innovative and they no longer have that edge and so far, no championships where before they had two despite increasing levels of talent.
Florida State's fun and gun in the early 90's was the machine to elevate them to a championship team instead of simply the team that always finished in the top four.
You can win titles without innovation but I think it's a default championship, in the absence of a team that is talented and innovative. Think Ohio State in 2000, Tennessee 1998 etc. One time deals and nothing particularly noteworthy in the grand scheme of things about those teams.
Colorado became my favorite Big 12 team(texas tech 2nd) immediately after signing Dan Hawkins last year. I was a little surprised at how bad they were the first year, but I chocked it up to a combination of him 1)cleaning house, 2)implementing his system, 3) him wisely taking the maximum pain during the first year so expectations will be easy to beat in his 2nd year.
However I didn't actually get to see them play a single game this year, what was his offense like? was the true success of his boise state teams still in Boise in the form of his ex-offensive coordinator who doesn't seem to miss his "tao of football" reputation in the least?
also did you ever get to see georgia southern play some football when they had navy's johnson as their coach? they had a badass retro innovator offense
Those factors are all probably why they did poorly, I agree. Sometimes it takes a while for the systems to kick in when you're in a more competitive league than the WAC, also.
USC took 1.5 seasons to really get the experience and right talent for Chow's offense, for example. And like Hawkins Carroll took his lumps that first year, lost a handful of winnable games but they turned a corner as far as competitiveness.
As far as their game play, the offense was fairly good at times. It helped having that mobile quarterback and a really nifty tailback, but the overall talent just wasn't there. They moved the ball all day against most teams (notably Georgia) but struggle to punch it in inside the 20's. That has to be remedied but they clearly can move the ball. Did it against Nebraska, did it against Missouri, did it against Georgia...
It's not quite his Boise offense yet, but they'll get there. Obviously Petersen learned well from Hawkins but I think he's taken his own spin on the Boise offense. Partly because of Ian Johnson they run the ball more, I didn't see as many crazy looks this year either. Part of that may have been because Zabransky was just never the same guy after Georgia although he did well this year particularly in the bowl game.
I did not see Georgia Southern play, no. But I remember reading about them and that back, Adrian Peterson (the non-Oklahoma one heh) a while back and some of the things they were doing. They actually gave Georgia a scare a few years ago.
as for the debatable decline of LSU...Jimbo Fisher just ain't that great, can you tell us some good info on the new O-cordinator?
With all due respect, CFR, what game were you watching? BSU had 134 yards total offense in the first half against Georgia. The Broncs didn't have a drive of more than 40 yards until it was garbage time late in the third quarter against the backups.
Even with second and third stringers, BSU finished with less than 300 yards offense.
The drive chart is here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/drivechart?confId=&gameId=252460061
It ain't pretty...
In the immortal words of Emily Litella, "Never mind."
Sad if true. Meyer is a prick, but a good coach.
An interesting blog submission, if it has any merit.
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