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[QUOTE="Hoov50, post: 1093228, member: 1056"]
You're definitely right about it not being Morant's fault entirely!  Those were some inept (to put it kindly) offensive teams he played on.  Deandre Preaster is another one who was going to be our next Art Monk and never even made it to campus.

Granted we didn't get him right out of high school, but Funderburke is another guy who was highly rated as a recruit and so far hasn't produced.

As a high school coach I can attest to the lack of pass defense in most leagues (regardless of the size of school). So putting up great receiving numbers in high school  may not mean much a lot of the time. Another thing you notice about the "busts" we have had are that they are taller WRs who match up against shorter high school DBs.  In college height advantage isn't that big of a deal because the DBs are more athletic.   Tall WRs are similar to C in basketball, they get by in high school based on their size advantage and have to develop other parts if their game once the competition is better. Unfortunately, a lot of our WRs haven't developed (for whatever reason) in the past.
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