I figured that much...ha
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It says that our WR recruiting has been the suck, which has seemed pretty obvious. We have some guys that could end up good, but we don't have enough good WR ready to play this year. If we can get a one year player that can make us better this year, of course we should take him.
I think it's also that Texas produces a ton of WR so OSU recruits better there. MS/AL/TN/LA WR tend to be more raw and take more time to develop. I wish we'd recruit TX more for WR and OL
So do we have a name for this possible WR transfer?
So who is it? just say it, it doesn't make 1 difference if its mentioned here or not
Well, we didn't have any QB's drafted in that period of the late 80's to the mid 90's either when we had 6 WR's drafted. It's much harder to get drafted as a QB than as a player at any other position. And we were a run based offense in those years, too. Georgia Tech has been probably the biggest run based offense in college football in the last 10-15 years but it still hasn't stopped them from producing Calvin Johnson and Demaryius Thomas. It seems to be partly due to bad luck and partly due to other factors like who we target in recruiting abd who is available to us in recruiting. Oddly enough, MS hasn't produced many NFL prospects at the WR position in the past decade or so. Moncrief is the only one I can think of from the top of my head who has made it as an impact guy, although there may be someone I am missing.
Actually it was Vic Schaefer, Fred's aunt was on his staff here. Fred used to play basketball with the Schaefer kids. Vic told Mullen about Fred.
Yes, this is the primary problem. It's obviously much harder to get kids from out of state when you don't have a ready-made pass-heavy offense. Both Calvin and Thomas were GA kids, and they both came in under Chan Gailey initially, who ran a pro-style offense. Since Paul Johnson was hired, they haven't recruited anybody at WR.
Is it Raphael Leonard?
Daniel Crowell? AJ Brown????
Did we find a way to get Stephen Guidry out in summer?
I've heard Guidry and possibly Robert Foster. I know what Fred Brown did was bad but it sure did suck to lose him