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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 3044438, member: 837"]
True -- don't disagree but that's sort of my point. Morant oozed talent but didn't produce for three years. Was that him? Was it the coaching/offense? Probably a little from column A, a little from column B. But the point is there are so many factors at play. A program needs to find good athletes (and lots of them if you want any depth), fit them into a good system and mold them into the best FB players they can be. And we've seen soooo many examples of this througout the years -- Morlon Greenwood didn't play football until late in his teens, Keith Bullock was an OK safety recruit that became a monster at MLB, Dwight Freeney wasn't a 4/5-star kid but put on a bunch of weight and became a monster, Art Jones was a nobody, Tebucky Jones was a big recruit at RB but wasn't very good there and only blossomed when he switched positions ... the list goes on and on.

Getting highly recruited kids is great, but you need to sign as many classes with 20+ solid prospects as possible to really build something. We seem to be doing that and it's evident when you look at the team on the field today vs. even 2 years ago. Anyone who doesn't see that but wants to judge the quality of recruits we're getting is absurd, IMO.
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