Freshmen Wideouts Will Play

If he could recruit, we won't be in the situation OR if we had a offensive system that we relevant to this millennium, maybe kids would want to come play here
 
MEwreck02 said:
If he could recruit, we won't be in the situation OR if we had a offensive system that we relevant to this millennium, maybe kids would want to come play here
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The situation where we have an exciting group of receivers, including one who fits the physical mold of our recent greats but happens to be a freshman?

Curse you Paul Johnson!
 
actually this is a testament to the fact the our WR unit is not so great....IMO. So I agree with the poor recruiting of this position in general to backfill losses. The WR unit is very pedestrian. Bottom 1/3 of ACC. So if the new kids are players; then they should bump right to the top.
 
33jacket said:
and bebe, choice; nesbitt, etc. Lets face it; we recruited top talent better before this system. Its just true

but this system is way more prolific. So for me its really about points on the board.
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I attribute that more to Gailey's recruiting ability than the system. Don't forget, we also got top talent on defense while he was here. (Although I think it would be crazy to argue that Johnson's system doesn't hurt our ability to recruit top WRs specifically.)

That said, your last paragraph is spot on to me. Sure we had an absolutely loaded team in 2006, but what did it really matter if we couldn't beat U[sic]GA or Wake Forest?
 
andrew said:
I attribute that more to Gailey's recruiting ability than the system. Don't forget, we also got top talent on defense while he was here. (Although I think it would be crazy to argue that Johnson's system doesn't hurt our ability to recruit top WRs specifically.)

That said, your last paragraph is spot on to me. Sure we had an absolutely loaded team in 2006, but what did it really matter if we couldn't beat U[sic]GA or Wake Forest?
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We also had more leeway in who we admitted in those days. Don't think we could get many of them by the Hill today.
 
ncjacket said:
We also had more leeway in who we admitted in those days. Don't think we could get many of them by the Hill today.
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Do you have a source on that? I know that's true for now compared to the 90s, but I was under the impression that our standards are currently still the same as during the Gailey era.
 
But progress towards degree requirements are more stringent
 
33jacket said:
and bebe, choice; nesbitt, etc. Lets face it; we recruited top talent better before this system. Its just true

but this system is way more prolific. So for me its really about points on the board.
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Agreed, but it's ultimately about wins. Gailey was 41-33 vs FBS in his 6 years at GT. Johnson is 35-37 vs FBS over the last 6 years....at more than double Gailey's salary. We are spending a lot of money for mediocre results.
 
jacketup said:
Agreed, but it's ultimately about wins. Gailey was 41-33 vs FBS in his 6 years at GT. Johnson is 35-37 vs FBS over the last 6 years....at more than double Gailey's salary. We are spending a lot of money for mediocre results.
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Well, I think most people would say it's ultimately about two things: titles and beating U[sic]GA.
 
jacketup said:
Agreed, but it's ultimately about wins. Gailey was 41-33 vs FBS in his 6 years at GT. Johnson is 35-37 vs FBS over the last 6 years....at more than double Gailey's salary. We are spending a lot of money for mediocre results.
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Since were tossing out excuses for each, Gailey didn't play against Miami or VT for 2 or 3 of those years.

I think on average, the level of the competition in the ACC is a good bit higher right now than it was 10 years ago.
 
Architorture23 said:
Since were tossing out excuses for each, Gailey didn't play against Miami or VT for 2 or 3 of those years.

I think on average, the level of the competition in the ACC is a good bit higher right now than it was 10 years ago.
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Come on, that 2006 Wake Forest team was a squad for the ages. The fact that we managed to put up 6 points on them was nothing short of a miracle. Thank God we had one of the best to ever play at WR and an NFL starter at RB or it might have been even worse.
 
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