Quote Originally Posted by Ifyouonlyknew View Post
We offered Cord 1st because he was a way better fit for the offense & when he committed he wasn't the baseball draft risk. The next month he went to the showcase & blew up. After that we stayed on Dobbs hard the whole season. At that time he was committed to Az St. In January it became pretty clear that Dobbs wasn't going to stick with Az St so we ramped it up overtime. He pretty much gave us the run around on whether he would visit or not. That's when we started recruiting John O'Korn, Damian Williams, & Zach Greenlee. Dobbs then visited TN the last weekend before signing day & the rest is history. We did recruit Dobbs all the way through & tried to get him to be our 2nd QB from the summer on.
Problem for us recruiting Dobbs is that he knew he was our 2nd banana to Sandberg and at signing time we knew Sandberg was leaning heavily to baseball but he was still a signee and there was no guarantee he was absolutely going baseball. For that reason, if I was Dobbs, I wouldn't have signed with us either. And O'Korn wouldn't either. We had to go down the board to Damien to find someone who would sign ALONG WITH Sandberg. We would have been in a much better position to get a better QB if Sandberg had just decommitted.