Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#82,477
drvenner said:
Someone please remind me how to get back to dark mode. This old fart done forgot.
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Click your little profile pic at the top beside where is says Volnation. Go to preferences and then the first option (I think it's "System") had the 2023 dark mode theme option.
 
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gainesvol82 said:
There are more examples but you just refuse to see them. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Elarbee is getting the absolute most out of who he has to work with?

I agree that OL recruiting has been a little behind compared to other positions but that has a lot to do with the false narrative about our "air raid" offense and conditioning needed for our fast pace. Let's see how things go in HS and portal recruiting after DSamp's year, being an elite rushing team and if we hold on to Sanders.

I think we will be pleased by how our OL progresses this off season.
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What he is working with is his responsibility. He's been here four years. The best OL on the team are the only 2 leftover from the previous regime.

I'm not on some rampage against Ellarbee, but if you had to pick a weak link it's him by far.

And you're kinda proving my point. I've seen four primarily the last two years of actual evidence that our OL has regressed if anything. Not expecting or hoping for some magical reversal next year.
 
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JCVol00 said:
Absolutely comical at this point. How can anyone with a straight face say that the unc and iowa rb’s are better than sampson
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Jeanty, Johnson, and Hampton are the top 3 rushing leaders in the country. That’s why they ended up being finalists. Pretty sure they just pulled from that list which is lazy.

Jeanty and Johnson average 7.5 and 6.7 ypc respectively but there’s absolutely a case Sampson should be considered over Hampton. Both average 5.7 ypc and D Samp leads him in TDs 22-14.
 
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Ttucke11 said:
What he is working with is his responsibility. He's been here four years. The best OL on the team are the only 2 leftover from the previous regime.

I'm not on some rampage against Ellarbee, but if you had to pick a weak link it's him by far.

And you're kinda proving my point. I've seen four primarily the last two years of actual evidence that our OL has regressed if anything. Not expecting or hoping for some magical reversal next year.
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It isn't him as a position coach necessarily it his him as a recruiter.
 
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Ttucke11 said:
What he is working with is his responsibility. He's been here four years. The best OL on the team are the only 2 leftover from the previous regime.

I'm not on some rampage against Ellarbee, but if you had to pick a weak link it's him by far.

And you're kinda proving my point. I've seen four primarily the last two years of actual evidence that our OL has regressed if anything. Not expecting or hoping for some magical reversal next year.
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Of course two of our best OL are holdover from Pruitt. It's primarily a developmental position in both technique and S&C. They are upperclassmen who have had 4 years of Ellarbee's coaching. Also, Heard had been very good after getting healthy and getting back in shape. Campbell is very good (not Ellarbee's fault he has bad knees that limit his reps), Dayne Davis has improved dramatically in his time here and has been a solid contributor, Karic has improved quite a bit and been solid this year and we have several underclassmen that were well regarded recruits who should be ready to contribute next year.

How about we acknowledge that the entire staff walked into a dumpster fire that made it difficult to recruit at first but recruiting is improving each year, they have made some good portal assessments, gotten the most out of who they've had to work with and will be working with only their guys next year? Admittedly, the OL was in better shape than many other position groups with Coop, Spraggins, Wright and Carvin staying when they got here but they did a great job by keeping those kids in the program and developing them.

If our OL is anything less rhan solid next year then Ellarbee deserves criticism but most of the hate is short-sighted as of now. I don't expect posters who already have their minds made up about him to objectively view the situation but look at all the people who hated Banks having to eat crow. You could see flashes of a good, aggressive DC at times and once he got to overhaul the LBs and DBs he has suddenly turned into an elite DC. I think Ellarbee is on a similar trajectory but had already been successful by any offensive metric other than pass protection this year and at other times when we had starters out, were going against elite DLs or breaking in a Freshman QB.
 
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DD4ME said:
It isn't him as a position coach necessarily it his him as a recruiter.
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We haven't recruiting badly but it certainly could have been better and seems to be getting better. Portal pickups have been hit or miss but OL is one of the hardest positions to project as evidenced by how many lower ranked guys contribute across the country and higher ranked guys don't do squat.

OL recruits tend to be either "can't miss" prospects that are very highly rated 4 and 5 stars and the rest are a coin flip on how they develop, especially in the SEC with so many future NFL defensive players they go up against..
 
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