Yes, and despite coming off a TWO win season and coming in late he brought in THREE four stars-----MORE than THREE times our normal quota this century------BUT one of the three was a JC, one starting a lot this year, and Hatcher had character defects, perhaps they should have recognized that he was from Louisville AND was friends with Quick------that of course is still playing, he is at Transfer U, that explains a lot..
Our top recruits the past four years have been 6.1 Young, 5.8 Conrad, 5.9 Barker, and maybe 5.8 McWilson (four years vs two for our JC four star DT), all legit SEC players IMO, no flameouts there. Per one article the top commits the previous four years were Chapman, remember him? with no four stars, Towles in 12, our token one four star, gone now, Faulkner, another token four star, Smith, again our ONE four star commit, another flameout,and they named Newton in 09, perhaps disqualifying our two JCs. NONE of our top commits under Joker lived up to expectations. I was very impressed with Joker adding three 5.7s AND a four star (to our ONE 5.7 earlier) to our class at the last minute after taking over in 10, but NONE of the four did didley..
In 14 Stoops signed TEN four stars coming off a two win season.
The 14 class are only sophs and juniors this year, perhaps next year they will grow some more and recognize that the coaches can only do so much, once they are on the field they have to make the plays, the coaches aren't out there. AND they will have added some VERY good pieces to the puzzle, and we have a 5.8 and 5.9 already signed for 17-----IF some of the negativity on here doesn't run them off NONE of the top commits have let it drive them off so far, keep trying though, you sure seem determined to-------what? Hopefully they will come out with the right attitude against Florida and take out their frustration on the field, where they should. They showed PLENTY of potential the first half, just have to get their head on straight.
I don't know how they react this year but by next year I expect them to get it all together and take responsibility for a whole game.
I like Stoops because 16 has tremendous promise, both from the players AND coaches improving.
That is if your constant negativity doesn't cause even more problems, do you really think all of your CONSTANT negativity is going to have ANY effect except maybe hurt recruiting?
