Who cares talent is talent. What player wouldn’t leave for hundreds of thousands and a chance to play at a power house? If he is good and wants to come back, let him. All that matters is wins and losses. He never said a bad thing about cuse.
I don’t think we really know if it was Fran or Schiano that wasn’t fond of Duce. I remember there being a lot of talk from Dohn (I know I know….) saying that Schiano was questioning Duce’s speed. This leads me more to believe that maybe it was more Schiano that had the overrule and not make Duce a priority for them. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fran was actually advocating for Duce at Rutgers.
and then bailed on his teammates.
Kind of strange Schiano would overrule a position coach of a guy he really wanted. Plus with the "Keep talking to #5 and i'll take #2 leaves me to believe he was a take", but at least he was smart enough to not want to play corner in the B10 at Rutgers.
Also, he left us for a "better opportunity".
Why wouldn’t a coach? He’s the ultimately responsible as his butt is on the line. I’m sure the position coach would want about 15 of his recruits to join the team but the head coach is the ceo who has to divvy up the numbers for each position etc. It could even be a situation where they were heavy in db’s and only could take a couple that year and Duce was lower on their board but in another year he’d be a take. We obviously don’t know 100% and will find out soon if how Fran thinks Duce will be a fit for us.
Yeah, he almost destroyed LAs career. However, you can continue to hold him to God status.
Talent, no one said “god status” whatever that is.
Bingo, this is like when George dates the girl with the huge nose and then he wants back with her after the nose job. Nah. He took his chance and got his “break”. There also has to be a line drawn with what’s gonna happen and not happen when it comes to leaving for money and being let back in
Locker room chemistry does matter if you care about wins and losses. If Fran wants him here and the players affected by his behavior want him back, then fine, but the team should have a say in it as well considering they are still here and he isn’t as his behavior prior to leaving almost caused a team star to miss the season.
I mean if he was able to get more $$$ by leaving than by staying, I really have no issue with him taking his shot. And if he’s of use to the program coming back, I really have no issue with that either.
He got cooked his sophomore year at Cuse as well
I don’t know he may have regressed? Is he still putting the same amount of work in? It was a noticeable drop off from his freshman to sophomore year and then was brought in to LSU at a position of need and couldn’t even crack the depth chart before strangely departing. Who knows the reason, but he doesn’t seem to be the same player he was his Freshman year.
Sounds like Duce needs a father figure.
Our secondary was crap this year. I think we need him on the field as long as he’s not a problem off the field. I agree he’d make a good nickel back. He could probably be a good 2nd CB like he was when Carter wasn’t injured but he can’t be the man on the #1 WR. He got torched in that role.
