The recruit that got away

[orangepassion]

if you had to pick one guy that we were seriously involved with at one point and think will be really good:

Mine is Poitier. Think he'll be a stud

 

[OrangeDW]

Gronk

 

[Cusester]

Malick Meiga. Happy valley, where everyone is happy to reach puberty unmolested.

 

[TexanMark]

Michael Irvin
Michael Vick

 

[OttoinGrotto]

if you had to pick one guy that we were seriously involved with at one point and think will be really good:

Mine is Poitier. Think he'll be a stud

From this class? Or all-time?

From this class - the CT QB (I keep forgetting his name).

All-time - Melvin Gordon

 

[DCCuse]

if you had to pick one guy that we were seriously involved with at one point and think will be really good:

Mine is Poitier. Think he'll be a stud

This class: Mesidor
All-time: tie between Melvin Gordon & Tamba Hali

 

[FloridaFan]

We were close on Melvin Gordon?

 

[Crusty]

Michael Vick

 

[Marty McFly]

has to be vick. This program has been on a downward trajectory ever since that.

 

[orangepassion]

From this class? Or all-time?

From this class - the CT QB (I keep forgetting his name).

All-time - Melvin Gordon

I meant this class, but guess we could do both.
All time would have to be Vick. Having him back-to-back with McNabb would have kept us as an Eastern power for at least a few more years and maybe establishes us as Dual-threat U

 

[Nick44]

All Time - Michael Vick

This Class - Tyler Van Dyke.This completly altered the trajectory of our class and we never recovered.

 

[cuse10]

Vick. Hands down. Changes the trajectory of the program.

 

[texascpa]

Ray Rice

 

[kcsu]

Vick All time
Tyler This year

 

[HOFCeluck]

Gordon.

Pretty cool with missing on Vick and Ray Rice.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Gordon.

Pretty cool with missing on Vick and Ray Rice.

Yeah. If you say Vick, you believe that him coming to Syracuse completely changes his personal life path and he doesn't make certain decisions we know he makes in this timeline.

I don't believe that.

 

[orangenauburn]

I keep seeing Michael Irvin. What's the story with that?

I'm not familiar with that. I thought he was never leaving Florida. Family was big reason.

We lost some kids that ended up all pro because of 9/11 if I remember right

 

[Orangejet]

We were close on Melvin Gordon?

Yes for a former Cuse player coached him in HS in Kenosha WI and HC Marrone didn’t show any interest. Heard Gordon wanted to play for the Orange but was denied by Big Doug.

 

[orangenauburn]

Yes for a former Cuse player coached him in HS in Kenosha WI and HC Marrone didn’t show any interest. Heard Gordon wanted to play for the Orange but was denied by Big Doug.

I remember reading that a few years ago and trying to convince myself that hey recruiting is not an exact science so I try to give him a pass

But then I just can't

 

[ORRange]

Alltime- Kenny Anderson
This year- Mesidor

 

[Bayside44]

Football has to be Vick.

 

[Chip]

Yeah. If you say Vick, you believe that him coming to Syracuse completely changes his personal life path and he doesn't make certain decisions we know he makes in this timeline.

I don't believe that.

Are we talking about the performance of the football team, or being embarrassed after people graduate for their life decisions?

Because we would have had at least 2 really good years of football in 1999 and 2000. We might have been the team playing FSU in the national title game.

I don't think there's a running back in the history of the world that would have had the same kind of impact Vick would have had in the SU offense at the time.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Are we talking about the performance of the football team, or being embarrassed after people graduate for their life decisions?

Because we would have had at least 2 really good years of football in 1999 and 2000. We might have been the team playing FSU in the national title game.

I don't think there's a running back in the history of the world that would have had the same kind of impact Vick would have had in the SU offense at the time.

Did VPI have an athletic department funding boost with Vick?

I think it's fair to wonder what he could have done for our program from that perspective, given what he would have been on the field.

That said, the dog stuff... that's really bad.

 

[dasher]

Vick. he would have sickened me later.

 

[OrangeDW]

Are we talking about the performance of the football team, or being embarrassed after people graduate for their life decisions?

Because we would have had at least 2 really good years of football in 1999 and 2000. We might have been the team playing FSU in the national title game.

I don't think there's a running back in the history of the world that would have had the same kind of impact Vick would have had in the SU offense at the time.

True. We had studs on defense, and good RB’s. Vick would’ve been the difference between 7-5 and 11-1.