Gillespie will be lucky to be there for two more years. His arrogance has ruffled lots of feathers and he continues to ignore requests to sign his contract. His personality is far removed from Tubbys and Pitinos.
On the eve of NSD we should consider how much importance we put on this thing called recruiting. Lets look back to 2007 when we had what was considered widely the best recruiting class in college football that year.
5 five star recruits
11 four star recruits
15 three star recruits...
Im not as thrilled about this hire as some of you obviously are. He has ridden on his fathers coat tails. Whats impressive about his resume'. He was OC at USC but Sarkisian was there too. He was 5-15 at Oakland and was overmatched. Now he will be competing against Meyer, Saban, etc. Im concerned...
No one is mentioning Kelly on here and I think he would be a much better choice than some of the people being heavily discussed ie Kiffin and Brewster....Kelly is a taskmaster is respected by his players, is a good recruiter, and he wins... any thoughts. Yesterday was an alltime low for...
ESPN ranks us as the worst team in the SEC. They also rank us as one of the ten worst teams in the nation. Oh how far we have fallen. We need a coach who is a top notch recruiter and a great field general. Mike Hamilton is paid big money to deal with these problems. Where is the pressure on him...
Consider Kyrus Lankster and Randall Cobb at UK. It is my understanding that we didnt recruit either one of them however we did recruit Rae Sykes who cant qualify. Lankster and Cobb will be major stars at UK and are in Fulmers backyard!
Parity has made player development so much more important. Loss of scholarships has brought the recruiting giants back to the pack. Our hotbeds of Georgia South Carolina and Louisiana have dried up. Richt and Miles get those players now. We are even being trumped in NC by Butch Davis so now we...