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We lost Kennard who was our primary rush end. He had 6 sacks. 4 of the sacks came against Wake Forest who was ranked 130th in sack allowed and 1 came against UVA who was ranked 123rd in sacks allowed. He only had 1 sack in the other 10 games. I appreciate Kennard's contributions to the team, but we should be able to replace that level of production pretty easily.
 
justafan said:
:dunno: Going back to the Johnson days, I just haven't seen the degree of urgency with DL recruiting/retention that is needed. It got better for a season or two under Collins but unfortunately those guys mostly transferred out. Maybe we need some of the Collins era salesmanship without the Collins era coaching.

For me it's exasperation at not addressing a critical need rather than setting up a told-ya-so
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PJ always said the hardest position to recruit for was the D line. While we didn't get a lot of top end guys, we did get some really good players during then - Pat Gamble, for instance, and there's no telling how good Brandon Adams would have been. Dude demanded a double team every time. Hell, Anree Saint-Amour's stats from his senior year weren't too far off from Keion White's last year at Tech, IIRC.
Some of our more highly-regarded recruits from then - Kallon and Hunt-Days - never really panned out, either. We recruited D line pretty hard (Tomlinson, anybody? Tuitt?) but came up bridesmaid a lot.

Hopefully Key and the next defensive staff can not only get a couple of those kinds of guys but also hang on to 'em, so we don't become a feeder program for the Ole Misses and Kentuckys of the world.
 
swampsting said:
PJ always said the hardest position to recruit for was the D line. While we didn't get a lot of top end guys, we did get some really good players during then - Pat Gamble, for instance, and there's no telling how good Brandon Adams would have been. Dude demanded a double team every time. Hell, Anree Saint-Amour's stats from his senior year weren't too far off from Keion White's last year at Tech, IIRC.
Some of our more highly-regarded recruits from then - Kallon and Hunt-Days - never really panned out, either. We recruited D line pretty hard (Tomlinson, anybody? Tuitt?) but came up bridesmaid a lot.

Hopefully Key and the next defensive staff can not only get a couple of those kinds of guys but also hang on to 'em, so we don't become a feeder program for the Ole Misses and Kentuckys of the world.
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Missed out on Trey Flowers too after he spurned us for Arkansas. Not a highly rated recruit but wound up playing 8 years in the league.
 
jdubjacket said:
Missed out on Trey Flowers too after he spurned us for Arkansas. Not a highly rated recruit but wound up playing 8 years in the league.
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forgot about him, but you are right, sir.
we also had guys like Junior Gnonkonde who committed and signed but we couldn't get into school and he wound up starting at Chapel Hell.
 
swampsting said:
PJ always said the hardest position to recruit for was the D line. While we didn't get a lot of top end guys, we did get some really good players during then - Pat Gamble, for instance, and there's no telling how good Brandon Adams would have been. Dude demanded a double team every time. Hell, Anree Saint-Amour's stats from his senior year weren't too far off from Keion White's last year at Tech, IIRC.
Some of our more highly-regarded recruits from then - Kallon and Hunt-Days - never really panned out, either. We recruited D line pretty hard (Tomlinson, anybody? Tuitt?) but came up bridesmaid a lot.

Hopefully Key and the next defensive staff can not only get a couple of those kinds of guys but also hang on to 'em, so we don't become a feeder program for the Ole Misses and Kentuckys of the world.
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Michael Johnson
Darryl Richard
Vance Walker
Derrick Morgan

That's the DL CPJ inherited. Best in the nation at the time.
 
Flywheel said:
Michael Johnson
Darryl Richard
Vance Walker
Derrick Morgan

That's the DL CPJ inherited. Best in the nation at the time.
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Walker was not heavily recruited and Johnson was a 6-7, 215-pound tight end in high school.
 
swampsting said:
PJ always said the hardest position to recruit for was the D line. While we didn't get a lot of top end guys, we did get some really good players during then - Pat Gamble, for instance, and there's no telling how good Brandon Adams would have been. Dude demanded a double team every time. Hell, Anree Saint-Amour's stats from his senior year weren't too far off from Keion White's last year at Tech, IIRC.
Some of our more highly-regarded recruits from then - Kallon and Hunt-Days - never really panned out, either. We recruited D line pretty hard (Tomlinson, anybody? Tuitt?) but came up bridesmaid a lot.

Hopefully Key and the next defensive staff can not only get a couple of those kinds of guys but also hang on to 'em, so we don't become a feeder program for the Ole Misses and Kentuckys of the world.
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Keshun Freeman
Charlie Thomas (as the rush lb for woody)
 
Flywheel said:
What the $%&# kind of criticism is this?
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It isn't.
It goes to show that sometimes you develop guys (or have to develop guys) who weren't big time recruits and goes to show that recruiting for D line, especially at Tech, isn't that easy.
 
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