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windycityfalcon · Post by **windycityfalcon** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:28 pm

that's more like it

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:41 pm

I think people are blowing the "recruiting" comments out of proportion. Urban Meyer's first class was limited because he didn't get the job until relatively late in the recrutiing process. He then followed that with a solid year. He then left very late in the recruting process and Gregg Brandon had less than a month to find 20+ kids. As a result, that class was limited.

Those three classes should be the foundation of the program and two of them were greatly effected by the comings and goings of the head coach.
That is going to leave you scrambling a bit to fill some holes.

It's a POV that carries some weight with me....

OptionQB · Post by **OptionQB** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:49 pm

There's a major difference in the comparision you made Flipper.

Urban was hired late in the process, meanwhile, Brandon was a part of it all along as an assistant, his role in the process simply, or not so simply changed.

For a similar case, look to the U. of Wisconsin as they've already named a successor before the season started and ESPN pointed out that Brett(?) Bielma can call recruits and say "how many head coaches have you talked to today?"

Brandon was able to use or not to use that strategy a little later in the process, but he was a part of the overall recruiting strategy from day one in his "first" class.

04forheisman · Post by **04forheisman** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:52 pm

windycityfalcon wrote:I have a sense of humor - there's just some things I don't find funny.
Simple as that..
As for the chicken.. how does that one turn out
?

The chicken lined up in a spread punt formation and got ran over by a truck before it could cross the road.

Good luck BG, Kill the JCREWABERCROMBIEROTHLISYOUKNOWWHATASUCKSKINS

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:54 pm

Sorry to get even further off the original topic, but I thought the first recruiting class that GB pulled in was fairly good. The problem with that class IMO has been guys that have left or are no longer in school for one reason or another. Virgil Robinson, Jenkins Reese, Robert Browning just to name a few.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:04 pm

OptionQB wrote:There's a major difference in the comparision you made Flipper.

Urban was hired late in the process, meanwhile, Brandon was a part of it all along as an assistant, his role in the process simply, or not so simply changed.

For a similar case, look to the U. of Wisconsin as they've already named a successor before the season started and ESPN pointed out that Brett(?) Bielma can call recruits and say "how many head coaches have you talked to today?"

Brandon was able to use or not to use that strategy a little later in the process, but he was a part of the overall recruiting strategy from day one in his "first" class.

That is true, but there's a difference between recruiting as an assistant and as the head guy. (Some of of the staff had taken jobs with Urban and Utah before heading back to BG.) Other schools used the instability against us. Urban may have wanted soem kids Brandon didn't and vice versa.
Juat assuming that the status quo was carried on is a little too pat.