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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 3221800, member: 52"]
We have 3 losing seasons out of 4.  Some of the worse losses/games in SU history this year.  Our recruiting has been near bottom of the ACC every year and Dino’s coaching record reflects that.

This class is decent but there’s nothing wrong with questioning how good the DB staff is at recruiting. We have supposedly an offensive guru and we can’t attract QB’s or OL.  Recruiting didn’t change at all after winning 10 games.  Maybe the class pans out 2-3 yrs down the road. Maybe it doesn’t. The history so far says this staff is just okay at recruiting and identifying ACC level talent. Just because they’ve had some success with some players in a class doesn’t mean anything, every team in the country can claim some recruiting success.

Projecting that all these players in this class are going to be amazing in 3 years sounds eerily similar to the Shafer days of having to convince the board that we found a whole class of diamonds in the rough. Remember when the Shafer cheer leaders used to say the staff got on kids early so nobody else tried to offer them, the Shafer staff was really good at identifying talent and camp kids b/c no other college was as good, we got kids that if they were 2 inches taller and 20 lbs heavier they’d have multiple SEC offers and we got lucky. Our S&C staff would turn them into 4-5 star talent in one year. That’s how these DB classes are starting to sound.

Did we get some good kids that I’m excited to see develop, absolutely.  But so has every school in the country.  We aren’t going to be more competitive without getting a larger proportion of sure things and attacking the recruiting of QB’s, DT’s and other high need areas instead of a million WR’s.
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