Here's the bottom line deal on Scroggins....
1. I think that some of you are setting the bar too high on Scroggins and are probably setting yourselves up for some disappointment down the road.
2. He HAS talent, but that doesn't mean that he's going to start in 2011, which would be his RS Freshman year. We don't know what could happen between now and then, and speculation is fun of course, but it's kind of being unrealistic at this point.
3. There might even be another JUCO that could come in at some point in time between now and then, that's a possibility.
Now, I'm not being critical of the kid, but he's got a lot to prove between now and then he has to get the starting job anywhere he may sign. I think that some of you are being somewhat too definitive on what he may or may not do when he gets to college and are hung up on the fact that he's the #1 guy on our board. Just because he's the #1 guy on our board doesn't mean he's the most talented or coveted. It could mean that he's the guy that has the most connections that could bring us in more talent if he commits. That's one of the reasons the staff was so high on Heaps. Heaps could bring in talent by name alone, and it seems as if Scroggins can as well because he's a higher profile guy on the West Coast.
Anyway it goes, I think that Jesse is a great talent, but I'm not putting my team's well-being in his hands yet because there are just too many unknowns between now and NSD for one, and after that he still has to earn the job.