'17 KY OT Jedrick Wills

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I love it. You can never have enough talented OTs, because you just slide the 3rd and 4th best inside
 
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How high is this kid up on the coach's board? Considering we're in a good spot on several tackles, I don't know how hard they're recruiting him.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
How high is this kid up on the coach's board? Considering we're in a good spot on several tackles, I don't know how hard they're recruiting him.
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Would be hard to turn down a high 4* and on Rivals he's a 5*. Regardless I trust this staff to do what is best.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
How high is this kid up on the coach's board? Considering we're in a good spot on several tackles, I don't know how hard they're recruiting him.
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He's one of the best tackles in the nation, and most schools don't actually recruit guards. The majority of guards we've brought in were recruited as tackles and then moved to guard. Unless a guard is phenomenal, you only recruit tackles and centers
 
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Vol8188 said:
He's one of the best tackles in the nation, and most schools don't actually recruit guards. The majority of guards we've brought in were recruited as tackles and then moved to guard. Unless a guard is phenomenal, you only recruit tackles and centers
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True. It'll be tough to pull him from UK but I never underestimate Butch's recruiting.
 
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LittleCat said:
UK is recruiting worse than two years ago...still a Lex kid but not a given
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Because Stoops has nothing to sell anymore. He could sell a promise 2 years ago that the program is going to turn around and be competitive. After falling on his face 2 years in a row not being able to make a bowl game after starting strong, he has nothing to promise recruits, except maybe early playing time. He surely can't promise any hopes of being part of a successful and winning program.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Because Stoops has nothing to sell anymore. He could sell a promise 2 years ago that the program is going to turn around and be competitive. After falling on his face 2 years in a row not being able to make a bowl game after starting strong, he has nothing to promise recruits, except maybe early playing time. He surely can't promise any hopes of being part of a successful and winning program.
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We've won a lot of games we should have. Barely won any that we shouldn't. Unfortunately Stoops has backed himself in a corner.
 
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KBVol said:
"It'll be tough to pull him from UK".

I'll take "Things you don't hear everyday" for 500 Alex.
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Living in Kentucky, most of these kids grow up UK fans and a lot of them end up playing for their home state. Stoop's best recruits had major big time offers that could have went anywhere in the country but decided to stay home considering UK's football program has been awful the last several years. I don't know, it's just a weird state to recruit in.
 
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I know some people close to his school. From what I gather, he would prefer to go out of state but there is going to be a ton of internal pressure for him to go to UK. It's basically your typical situation with a recruit from KY that doesn't reside in Louisville.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Because Stoops has nothing to sell anymore. He could sell a promise 2 years ago that the program is going to turn around and be competitive. After falling on his face 2 years in a row not being able to make a bowl game after starting strong, he has nothing to promise recruits, except maybe early playing time. He surely can't promise any hopes of being part of a successful and winning program.
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No doubt. He also lacks good experienced coaches on his staff. Part of his sale with recruits, especially up here in the Cincy area was having the "youngest" staff in America. It might have helped recruiting some, but it has had a negative effect IMO when it comes to player development and actual in game coaching.

I also think hiring Eddie Gran as OC is very risky. I was never impressed with him at Cincy. His offenses always played with terrible fundamentals and always seemed disorganized. He simply came into a great situation at Cincy by inheriting a ton of Big East recruited talent left behind by Butch that was playing against C-USA recruited talent the last 3 years in the AAC.
 
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Montrell Hardy said:
I know some people close to his school. From what I gather, he would prefer to go out of state but there is going to be a ton of internal pressure for him to go to UK. It's basically your typical situation with a recruit from KY that doesn't reside in Louisville.
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Not what I have heard. Yes there is pressure, but atm he is still a UK lean.
 
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Montrell Hardy said:
No doubt. He also lacks good experienced coaches on his staff. Part of his sale with recruits, especially up here in the Cincy area was having the "youngest" staff in America. It might have helped recruiting some, but it has had a negative effect IMO when it comes to player development and actual in game coaching.

I also think hiring Eddie Gran as OC is very risky. I was never impressed with him at Cincy. His offenses always played with terrible fundamentals and always seemed disorganized. He simply came into a great situation at Cincy by inheriting a ton of Big East recruited talent left behind by Butch that was playing against C-USA recruited talent the last 3 years in the AAC.
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I don't know how much of a choice we had. Stoops chose someone he knew and who has Ohio connections...

go figure.
 
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Montrell Hardy said:
As Josh said above, it is a really really weird state to recruit.
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The football program in general is just a bad job for recruiting. We are a basketball school, who didn't put much effort in the football program. We are stuck in between the south and the north where the talent is. All in all we have to pray whatever coach we get has some major pull outside of KY or that we suddenly begin producing talent like the rest of the SEC.

Til then we are stuck relying on three and low four stars
 
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