Official EliteDawgs 2017 Signing Day Thread

[msstate7]

If I take a kid with character issues, give me the 4 star who smoked weed.

See, we can find common ground sometimes haha

[Doggie_Style]

He has multiple kids???

He has a history of poor choices so today's decision was right in line with his other poor choices.....we probably dodged a bullet

[msbulldog]

Bowie family signs with OM

Wonder if the NCAA, would like to interview old DD?

[maroonmania]

I've stayed somewhat quiet on Bowie, but do we really want a kid who quits on his basketball team in the middle of a game? If I take a kid with character issues, give me the 4 star who smoked weed.

Yep, I just hate we whiffed on getting one playmaking WR in the class, not so much that we didn't get Bowie. Austin will be a nice "possession" receiver at best.

[Really Clark?]

Who?

The 4 star kid that was set to announce for Bama and right before he goes live they call to tell him they won't take it his commitment now.

[msstate7]

The 4 star kid that was set to announce for Bama and right before he goes live they call to tell him they won't take it his commitment now.

I no longer feel sorry for the dude. Grow a pair and have some pride about yourself, parks

[Saltydog]

he visited. I do think he actually gave us some consideration but I never thought he was going to sign w/us from the get go. Just way too many hands stuck out for him not to go to UM. He can now go sit on the bench behind all their other 4 and 5 star WR. Their WR group does make me somewhat jealous. Hell, we can't even get a solid 3 star much less a 4 or a 5. Gonzales isn't getting it done with his group.

[HSVDawg]

He has a history of poor choices so today's decision was right in line with his other poor choices.....we probably dodged a bullet

SMH at this comment. I think you'd be very surprised how many players we have signed in the past (including some current players, most likely) that had multiple kids in high school. It's an unfortunate reality when your primary recruiting ground is the state that leads the nation in poverty, teenage pregnancy, and is dead last in education (which by extension means dead last in sex education). No way that should be used against him when judging his potential value to our program or another program.

[Pollodawg]

SMH at this comment. I think you'd be very surprised how many players we have signed in the past (including some current players, most likely) that had multiple kids in high school. It's an unfortunate reality when your primary recruiting ground is the state that leads the nation in poverty, teenage pregnancy, and is dead last in education (which by extension means dead last in sex education). No way that should be used against him when judging his potential value to our program or another program.

Just made this exact point.

[GTHOM]

2 out of 3 aint bad. Good day. Willie Gay is every bit as good as Akers. That aint spin either. Still dont understand why everybody is worried about our WRs. We will be fine there. Helped our DL with impact players and depth tremendously. Signed 5 OL this year, all of them are huge human beings. This class is a W. Good job Mullen and staff

[msbulldog]

2 out of 3 aint bad. Good day. Willie Gay is every bit as good as Akers. That aint spin either. Still dont understand why everybody is worried about our WRs. We will be fine there. Helped our DL with impact players and depth tremendously. Signed 5 OL this year, all of them are huge human beings. This class is a W. Good job Mullen and staff

Spot on.

[Finna]

And the CL pencils him in to start at CB for them next year. Lulz.

I hope he does. We called plays this season to intentionally run right at him.

[Leroy Jenkins]

It's an unfortunate reality when your primary recruiting ground is the state that leads the nation in poverty, teenage pregnancy, and is dead last in education (which by extension means dead last in sex education).

How did teenagers not get pregnant before sex education?

[NCDawg]

2 out of 3 aint bad. Good day. Willie Gay is every bit as good as Akers. That aint spin either. Still dont understand why everybody is worried about our WRs. We will be fine there. Helped our DL with impact players and depth tremendously. Signed 5 OL this year, all of them are huge human beings. This class is a W. Good job Mullen and staff

I hope the 5 OL we signed have good feet and can move. I recall in high school we had a big guy which we could push around all over the field.

[1bigdawg]

How did teenagers not get pregnant before sex education?

Parents.

[thf24]

he visited. I do think he actually gave us some consideration but I never thought he was going to sign w/us from the get go. Just way too many hands stuck out for him not to go to UM. He can now go sit on the bench behind all their other 4 and 5 star WR. Their WR group does make me somewhat jealous. Hell, we can't even get a solid 3 star much less a 4 or a 5. Gonzales isn't getting it done with his group.

We may have come up short this year, but we've signed at least one 4 star WR each of the previous four. We could do better recruiting this position, no doubt, but it's not a deficiency by any means.

[Commercecomet24]

2 out of 3 aint bad. Good day. Willie Gay is every bit as good as Akers. That aint spin either. Still dont understand why everybody is worried about our WRs. We will be fine there. Helped our DL with impact players and depth tremendously. Signed 5 OL this year, all of them are huge human beings. This class is a W. Good job Mullen and staff

Absolutely agree!

[shoeless joe]

SMH at this comment. I think you'd be very surprised how many players we have signed in the past (including some current players, most likely) that had multiple kids in high school. It's an unfortunate reality when your primary recruiting ground is the state that leads the nation in poverty, teenage pregnancy, and is dead last in education (which by extension means dead last in sex education). No way that should be used against him when judging his potential value to our program or another program.

Doesn't mean it wasn't a poor choice. Especially the second time...and just because a lot of college age kids on every campus make the same poor choice it doesn't make it any better.

We could go into reasoning, causes, etc...but no reason to in this thread.

[Bdawg]

This is a really, really good class. Got our QB of the future, a stud RB, stud LB, immediate impact talent on the DL and secondary, along with some solid HS talent on the DL as well. We'll just have to wait and see what the OL become.

Why do we have to do this every year? Really tired of this broken record.

[smootness]

Why do we have to do this every year? Really tired of this broken record.

Because most of the best OL we've had under Mullen have been lower-rated guys, and most of the higher-rated guys we've gotten haven't done a thing. Our OL under Mullen hasn't been any worse than most other position groups and hasn't really held us back.