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[QUOTE="orange_in_VA, post: 2587430, member: 1356"]
People were definitely very excited about some of Shafers recruits. The ones with the biggest offer lists unfortunately ended up being kids who were overrated, couldn't make it to campus, or ended up being criminals.

I went back to take a look at Shafers recruits. He left us some good ones that he didn't really get to coach much. The most productive kids are the following:

Brisly Estime
Jamar McGloster
Cole Murphy
Chris Slayton
Johnathan Thomas
Steve Ishmael
Zaire Franklin
Parris Bennett
Erv Phillips
Aaron Roberts
Antwan Cordy
Dontae Strickland
Eric Dungey
Cody Conway
Chris Frederick
Sterling Hofrichter
Keilan Whitner
Moe Neal 
Scoop Bradshaw

The biggest issues with Shafers classes was the inability to get the top recruits to contribute or even make it to campus and taking flyers on guys that probably weren't D1 talents at the bottom of his classes. He did give us our starting LBers and WRs for the last 4 years as well as our starting CBs and RB two-deep for the last couple seasons, including this upcoming year. Two 4 year Special teams guys and a few good lineman mixed in. His misses definitely outweigh the hits though. It's yet to be seen if Dino is recruiting higher caliber players at this point. The class rankings look good. The only guys he's recruited that have contributed significantly to this point were his dline recruits and grad transfer/juco kids. I definitely give him credit for quickly upgrading the dline when he came in, but Shafer recruited some good ones that ended up being criminals unfortunately. We wouldn't have been in such an awful position there if Ealey and Sheppard weren't kicked off the team/arrested.
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