Now its flipped, we don’t develop players as well, but we recruit better players.
Not sure I agree with that. With TOB he was lucky to get 2s and 3s, and the first 3 seasons DD didn’t fare much better primarily because of negative stigmas. That has changed in the last 2 classes somewhat BUT this years team has quite a bit of player development especially from the perspective of S&C. Both the D and O Lines are much better than the day they showed up. And LBs too. And a great deal of that is owed to coaching (assistants).
Granted improved recruiting helped because the upperclassmen were competing in practice against better opposition. From where I sit it is two pronged, both recruiting and coaching are much better now. One could argue that the top three could be better (lot’s of discussion of that already). Maybe we do fall off a bit next year simply because we are senior heavy. I’m not quite as concerned about that because what will be left after that class leaves is tons better than what DD inherited in his first year.
Smarter than the average bear
