Another 2018 OL offered

[notoriousD_O_G]

Jalan Robinson. 6-6 300 pound 3 star from Lawrence Kansas

 

[LandArchDawg]

Gotta get 'em from somewhere.

 

[wtw2400]

I love how the staff doesn't just shrug it off if there are no more regional OL and just go up nationally. I never understood why we never even tried to recruit outside of our 200 mile radius.

I am not sure if we get this kid from the hometown of the University of Kansas or the Detroit kid, but at least we are attempting and not sitting on our hands acting like there is no hope. But since this kid is not committed to Kansas, I would guess he was waiting on a better offer like us.

 

[msstate7]

Well we kinda have to expand our recruiting search after Mullen took bleich and McDowell, tenn took carvin, and ark took winkel. We kinda getting pushed around on oline recruiting and DB right now (thanks to Morris at ark)

 

[wtw2400]

The previous staff would not have expanded the search. We are now. That is what I consider progress. And these look like similar guys, just farther away.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

The previous staff would not have expanded the search. We are now. That is what I consider progress. And these look like similar guys, just farther away.

Yeah, they probably would have just settled for someone like Elgton Jenkins or Stewart Reese.

 

[johnson86-1]

Yeah, they probably would have just settled for someone like Elgton Jenkins or Stewart Reese.

Stewart Reese was not settling. T-Buck came in and stole him late.

Jenkins was settling. I'd be interested to know who we missed on before offering him late and whether they ended up as good as him. Granted it took him until his third year to be ready, but nobody would be upset with a line full of Jenkins.

 

[HotMop]

He is getting alot of late offers, 4 in the last week and a half. It doesn't appear that he had any offers prior to that.

 

[thf24]

He is getting alot of late offers, 4 in the last week and a half. It doesn't appear that he had any offers prior to that.

Could be that several schools wanted to try to get him as a preferred walk-on and had to call when someone upped the ante.

 

[maroonmania]

Stewart Reese was not settling. T-Buck came in and stole him late.

Jenkins was settling. I'd be interested to know who we missed on before offering him late and whether they ended up as good as him. Granted it took him until his third year to be ready, but nobody would be upset with a line full of Jenkins.

Just sort of a crap shoot when you get that far down your board. Jenkins has been great but we also took Cochran that same year in the same sort of way and he hasn't helped us at all. I agree that Reese was certainly not settling. Heck, I know he had an FSU offer at one time.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Could be that several schools wanted to try to get him as a preferred walk-on and had to call when someone upped the ante.

Maybe.

Probably more of a musical chairs scenario at this point tho.

 

[Go Budaw]

Stewart Reese was not settling. T-Buck came in and stole him late.

Jenkins was settling. I'd be interested to know who we missed on before offering him late and whether they ended up as good as him. Granted it took him until his third year to be ready, but nobody would be upset with a line full of Jenkins.

With Reese, we didn’t exactly “steal” him late from anybody. He wanted a commitable FSU offer and never got one. T-Buck deserves credit for getting him, but he would have likely signed with just another mid-tier Power 5 program like an NC State, Louisville, or other non-Florida school if we hadn’t gotten him.

 

[HumpDawgy]

You go get football players where they play football. It would be great if you never had to leave the state to field a championship caliber team, but that is not the case. If you have to postpone your marathon training or miss your kid's golf tournament to hop on a plane and go talk to a kid, you do it because the university is paying you millions to do so.

 

[Junction John]

Can we check and see if he's corn-fed? I've always heard that's how you want

from Lawrence Kansas

your OL, but I'm not sure we've ever had one.

 

[johnson86-1]

With Reese, we didn’t exactly “steal” him late from anybody. He wanted a commitable FSU offer and never got one. T-Buck deserves credit for getting him, but he would have likely signed with just another mid-tier Power 5 program like an NC State, Louisville, or other non-Florida school if we hadn’t gotten him.

We started recruiting a guy like in December or January who could have probably gotten a spot at any non-blue blood school if he had showed interest early enough. That's a steal, even if we didn't have to beat out a blue blood for him.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Now blue, you know good and well our previous staff would have just left those kinds of spots unfilled.

 

[Go Budaw]

We started recruiting a guy like in December or January who could have probably gotten a spot at any non-blue blood school if he had showed interest early enough. That's a steal, even if we didn't have to beat out a blue blood for him.

I guess my overall point was that when its this late in the game and you have been shot down by multiple prospects at any given positon, you either have to settle for a non-highly recruited Plan B player, or, if you are lucky you get to be a somewhat highly recruited kid’s Plan B school (which is perfectly OK). In neither case are you grabbing some hot prospect off someone else’s commitment list unless you just go all-in with some OM type shenanigans. That is what I personally would call a “steal”, but to each his own. Just semantics there, anyway.

With Reese, it was the latter situation, and T-Buck did a great job of identifying a guy that was shot down by his dream school and was wide open to a decent out of state offer. His connections in Florida certainly helped there. It was kind of a deal where everything lined up and broke right for us and we had a good closer to finish it. But, those situations don’t come around very often. We have another such opportunity with the kid from Detroit, so we’ll see how that one plays out.