Jakhari Williams

TampaBayJacket said:
Jesus some of you guys act like your wife of 20 years just left you for the pool boy. I mean it's still early in the 2024 recruitment year and a lot of things can change between now and signing day so this is just part of everyone's recruiting process, not just ours. The only decommitment that bothers me is the guy who strings us along until signing day when we could have been recruiting someone else. I'd much rather have it early like this.
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Why do you feel the need to remind me of that favor the pool boy did taking that old hag away from me?
 
I'm also resigned to the fact we should almost just rely on the portal mainly to build our program. Thanks to the portal and the NIL, schools like ours really don't stand a chance with kids out of hs vs. the big factories. GT does offer a 'second chance' to blue chippers who are either homesick or are buried in the depth chart at top tier programs. In the end I think pure high school recruiting is only accounting for half of our players at this point in the last 2 years? I'd love to see the stats on transfers in vs. pure hs commits and signees + those kids transferring out.
 
gt9589 said:
I'm also resigned to the fact we should almost just rely on the portal mainly to build our program. Thanks to the portal and the NIL, schools like ours really don't stand a chance with kids out of hs vs. the big factories. GT does offer a 'second chance' to blue chippers who are either homesick or are buried in the depth chart at top tier programs. In the end I think pure high school recruiting is only accounting for half of our players at this point in the last 2 years? I'd love to see the stats on transfers in vs. pure hs commits and signees + those kids transferring out.
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There is going to be a LOT of that going on at every school. The forward thinking coaches, especially at the factories, are going to be pushing underachievers/bad fits/too many at position players to the portal.

There will be some gems out there. Just need to find them. There will also be exemplary players who are looking to move from a non factory to a factory to improve draft chances. I don't think that was the entirety of Gibbs' decision, but it did work out that way for him.
 
justafan said:
The all-caps "PLEASE RESPECT MY DECISION" is a little obnoxious. Who is that directed to anyway? LEAVE ME ALONE, DONT MAKE ME FEEL BAD


Very well could be the deal here
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Problem is a handful of people twit these kids and their families directly with all kinds of vile filth. The banter on here is the calculus book was too heavy, we got NIL’s, etc and sometimes we’ll get harsh with talent and game performance assessments. Elsewhere you got people wishing they’d get tortured, their house burns down, etc. Then there’s the direct physical threats that seem too real.

I’d hate to be a kid these days. Everything’s under a microscope for them and the history trail on the internet never goes away.
 
JJacket said:
There is going to be a LOT of that going on at every school. The forward thinking coaches, especially at the factories, are going to be pushing underachievers/bad fits/too many at position players to the portal.

There will be some gems out there. Just need to find them. There will also be exemplary players who are looking to move from a non factory to a factory to improve draft chances. I don't think that was the entirety of Gibbs' decision, but it did work out that way for him.
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The last part kind of leads to doubling down on transfers in instead of high school. Any gems you find from the latter will probably be out the door the minute they shine.
 
GTLiebs said:
The last part kind of leads to doubling down on transfers in instead of high school. Any gems you find from the latter will probably be out the door the minute they shine.
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It probably would have been like that for years had this been in place. I imagine a player like Keith Brooking would have been a high demand player in the portal.
 
Liberty said:
Problem is a handful of people twit these kids and their families directly with all kinds of vile filth. The banter on here is the calculus book was too heavy, we got NIL’s, etc and sometimes we’ll get harsh with talent and game performance assessments. Elsewhere you got people wishing they’d get tortured, their house burns down, etc. Then there’s the direct physical threats that seem too real.

I’d hate to be a kid these days. Everything’s under a microscope for them and the history trail on the internet never goes away.
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Twitter is a hellscape. I don't do Twitter for that very reason. Thanks to that and other Social Media platforms, people are vile, nasty and without repercussions in most situations thanks to the internet. It's sad.
 
Whole lot of speculatin' goin' on 'round here.

A good prospect with a decent, but not great offer list, is 100% with us until just after the Spring game where the best performance was by the youngest QB. He wants to rethink things. Okay. He can always recommit if that's what's best for him.

I think the newest reality with the portal is that HS quarterbacks options have changed. Unless you are THE top QB in the country (and probably not even then), you are not just competing with other HS players to start immediately when the previous top QB leaves. You now have every other established QB on college teams looking to take a step up, or out, too. Just look at the ACC this year. Alabama needs a QB, they take Notre Dame's, who takes Wake's. Pitt takes BC's QB. Louisville takes Purdue's (who took him from Cal). NC State has Virginia's now. We have Texas A&M's.

High school quarterbacks can't count on the stability of coming in and working their way up the ladder behind an upperclassman starter, and coaches are more comfortable finding an experienced QB from the portal than risking putting their eggs in the HS basket.
 
gt9589 said:
Twitter is a hellscape. I don't do Twitter for that very reason. Thanks to that and other Social Media platforms, people are vile, nasty and without repercussions in most situations thanks to the internet. It's sad.
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People were always vile and nasty it’s just that now due to social platforms they can more easily express themselves.
 
gt9589 said:
Twitter is a hellscape. I don't do Twitter for that very reason. Thanks to that and other Social Media platforms, people are vile, nasty and without repercussions in most situations thanks to the internet. It's sad.
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This take is so repeated and so wrong. No one makes you view anything on Twitter that you don't want to. You pick who to follow and if you don't like what they post then you unfollow them. There is a ton of great information provided by knowledgeable people on just about any topic you are interested in if you curate your feed. And there is no substitute for getting unvarnished takes on current events, free of the rotten mainstream media.

If you subscribe to cable TV or streaming services they shove all kind of garbage at you, mixed in with some content you want to see. You don't watch the channels that feed your garbage, or the garbage shows on decent channels. Twitter works the same way.
 
Liberty said:
Problem is a handful of people twit these kids and their families directly with all kinds of vile filth. The banter on here is the calculus book was too heavy, we got NIL’s, etc and sometimes we’ll get harsh with talent and game performance assessments. Elsewhere you got people wishing they’d get tortured, their house burns down, etc. Then there’s the direct physical threats that seem too real.

I’d hate to be a kid these days. Everything’s under a microscope for them and the history trail on the internet never goes away.
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You are correct on the blowback, but these kids also choose to make themselves public figures by posting all this on social media. IMO, a junior in high school really has no reason to "commit" and make it public. NiL is turning them from attention-seeking players to attention-seeking whores.
 
ee8384 said:
This take is so repeated and so wrong. No one makes you view anything on Twitter that you don't want to. You pick who to follow and if you don't like what they post then you unfollow them. There is a ton of great information provided by knowledgeable people on just about any topic you are interested in if you curate your feed. And there is no substitute for getting unvarnished takes on current events, free of the rotten mainstream media.

If you subscribe to cable TV or streaming services they shove all kind of garbage at you, mixed in with some content you want to see. You don't watch the channels that feed your garbage, or the garbage shows on decent channels. Twitter works the same way.
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True.. I just don't choose to get on it. If these kids get on it, they better expect both praise or vitriol depending on what they post recruiting wise.
 
I think of twitter and social boards as a place for people who want to belong to something, but don’t have the initiative or interest in going somewhere and seeing the people you want to interact with. Also a lot of people like to have their views validated by the approval of like minded people.
 
ee8384 said:
This take is so repeated and so wrong. No one makes you view anything on Twitter that you don't want to. You pick who to follow and if you don't like what they post then you unfollow them. There is a ton of great information provided by knowledgeable people on just about any topic you are interested in if you curate your feed. And there is no substitute for getting unvarnished takes on current events, free of the rotten mainstream media.

If you subscribe to cable TV or streaming services they shove all kind of garbage at you, mixed in with some content you want to see. You don't watch the channels that feed your garbage, or the garbage shows on decent channels. Twitter works the same way.
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Very true. Twitter is what you want it to be if you know how to curate.
 
gt9589 said:
Twitter is a hellscape. I don't do Twitter for that very reason. Thanks to that and other Social Media platforms, people are vile, nasty and without repercussions in most situations thanks to the internet. It's sad.
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So, like how people act in traffic.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
Jesus some of you guys act like your wife of 20 years just left you for the pool boy.
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