Cause we believed in the hype of the game and we wanted our team to win?? Did you not see how fast all their players looked both ways? Our players looked FCS slow compared to them. That’s elite level talent.It’s amazing how many on here were convinced we were gonna whip their a$$ and now all of a sudden they’re “the most talented team in the country “.
Guess Michigan and Oregon didn’t care how “talented “ they were
It's like they forgot what CJH had to dig us out of. We had 2 coaches that recruited as if they were at UTC, no offense to UTC, and the last coach burnt it all down on his way out. 4 years later, they crashed out when we lost to OSU. Despite their record, Michigan still won the National. Championship last year. Both of those teams have been top 5/top 10 recruiting for a while. We've been top 15 mostly.
He had more than 57 scholarship players in his first season, though. He didn’t have an NCAA cloud hanging over him.
He did exactly what he needed to do and hired better coaches to come onto the staff and began recruiting at an elite level. Then became a national championship winning coach. We know heupel has been doing great no one is saying he hasn’t been. Fans are realizing we need to hire better coaches to come onto the staff and recruit way better at an elite level not top 10 or 11 to win the a conference championship and a natty. Will he follow in Harbaugh’s steps? Or just become complacent with his best friends that can’t develop or recruit.
Are we not gonna act like he hasn’t been putting tons of studs into the NFL with 1st round picks? He also had a top 5 class in 2017. Go look at the top end of the recruits consensus #1 player in the nation one class. Then had multiple 4 stars that actually turned out to be great/star players. He also Recruited very well in the trenches. Something we are not doing as good as they did. Finally got David Sanders Jr. he also consistently got players to never transfer and stay all the way through as seniors. While also developing the players and their talents. I hate Michigan/Harbaugh not as much as Ohio State but I still respect what he did with his Alma mater.
Their db coach definitely recruited and developed better than what Tennessee has had in the last decade. As well as tight ends, o lineman, d lineman. Ranking numbers don’t mean everything with what recruiting elite means. Having eye for talent and what you can do with your scheme goes into that as well.remember butch jones classes top recruit Khalil McKenzie was a huge bust. But yes I understand your point we’re both not wrong.
Aidan Hutchinson Rasean Gary Jabrill Peppers JJ McCarthy Blake McCorum and many more others are elite recruits. We haven’t had any players play to their ability like those in the their respective positions except hendon hooker who was a transfer. Dylan Sampson and Jalin Hyatt(Jeremy Pruitt was head coach when he got recruited). Each played amazing for one season for us.
Those were elite recruits who developed into elite players.
