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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 2061080, member: 430"]
Yeah but even your 6'7 TE from NH still had offers from Alabama, USC, Nebraska, UCLA, LSU, etc.  He may have been a 3 star but we would kill for recruits with those measurables with offer sheets like that regardless of star rankings.

You look at most of Marrone's classes, you probably can count on a few fingers (and that's being generous) the number of recruits he had that had really great measurables and solid offer sheets like your NH TE.  Move into Shafer's first full class, it seemed we were landing more of those types of kids than we had in the past but we quickly found out that there was a reason for that and that reason was that they were generally non-qualifiers.

What I like about Dino's first full cycle class is that there are no non-qualifiers, all of the kids are pretty solid height/weight wise, and a few look ready to contribute legitimately as true freshman because they are physically ready rather than due to lack of depth.  We beat out Ole Miss and Texas A&M for Devito, LSU among others for Pierce (JUCO AA) and Fagan, FSU and Tennessee for Jonathan (him reclassifying from '18 to '17 really helped us there) and Michigan for Melifonwu.  Williams and Guthrie are both 1st team JUCO AA's and Williams was a rivals 250 kid out of high school.

I know that the pace may be slow for others but for me, this looks like we're moving in the right direction.  It takes time to build a program.  This offseason most of the non-contributors transferred out which I think will also help with the forward vision of the program, competition, morale, etc.
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