Wait...wait but you want Harrell to gain control over Dart. Given what happened to Slovis? who also destroyed Wazzu?
3-Star Texas RB DeAnthony Gatson Decommits From USC
After another game struggling to run the ball vs Washington St. in a 45-14 victory in Pullman, three-star Newton (TX) RB DeAnthony Gatson announced his decommitment from USC on Monday. The Trojans had gained momentum with recruiting after announcing Donte Williams was taking over for Clay Helton...www.on3.com
Serious question just to understand the process. Why would an O-lineman sign up to come play for SC see how poor the OC is? Do the overall benefits of the school outweigh the poor schemes or do recruits simply bank on the guy may be gone before they graduate? Btw, all game long I kept posting the question, “why don’t they try running to the left side?”
Just a couple of comments about the OL. First, when it comes to recruiting rankings, there are very few 5* OL in the entire country, compared to many skill position players. Take a look at any service that ranks recruits - less than 10 5* in the entire country. 4* are very good, as are many 3*. OL in high school is like developing OL in college - you are trying to project how good a player is going to be early in their development. Look at Frank Martin - I believe a 4* that had offers at many places but really has never developed into more than a back-up. Great guy, looked like he would be great, but didn't turn out as strong a player as one would have expected. I don't think Helton/Harrell didn't want more OL, but I think they weren't successful at it because either they didn't effectively recruit them or they got unlucky with some of the kids that were billed as being future stars. I do think we have some kids at OL who are going to be very good - Monheim, Ford, Murphy, Milek, Dedich, Collier, Gibbs, and Buchanon. Good coaching can make them very good to great players. Turnover in coaching the OL has been a big problem.
And why do they keep running sideline to sideline, what happened to running north and south?
This is the same crap I read on this board about JT. Overrated, couldn't handle the college game, regressed (as an early season soph). How quickly we forget how good Kedon is and how quickly we forgot how good JT was. Watch JT with Georgia sometime and see how "bad" he is. How about placing the blame where it should be - Kedon has not been coached well by Harrell and he's been a victim of a goofy offense.
I agree on some of your points. However, when you do not develop these lineman teaching them the fundamentals of not only pass blocking and run blocking we get what have seen for the last 6 years. One thing is obvious, when we were great we had more effective blocking on the line. If these guys back in the day were not 5 stars they had coaching that developed their technique. I know Oregon, UCLA, and Stanford during this time and most recently did not have a bunch of 5 stars nor 4 stars. We have been pushed around like I have never seen our team has. The solution from what I have seen is open up competition again for starting positions and concentrate heavily on developing line play. Do whatever it takes.....compete. If our line is good perhaps it is the offensive scheme that is the problem. The offense has to be tailored to the personnel and not the other way around. Many coaches make the mistake of trying to put a circular peg into a square hole. Conversely, if you are set on running a certain offense you need to recruit people who are best suited to run it. This is not easy.
Lazy take. Different situations. Different players.
I was at the game in Pullman and I told my uncle(a UW Husky) before the game, "Watch, all we do is run sideways. We never run downhill under any circumstances.".
Why they don’t run to the Left side is above my pay scale. They can get elite lineman. It’s all in the product that’s put on the field. Pass pro all game without a chance to grind on an opp is not ideal.
