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vols1215

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That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
 
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vols1215 said:
That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
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Have to disagree with you saying most our D are 3-4 recruits.
 
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vols1215 said:
That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
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Good point although most of our recruits are what you would consider stars.
 
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Dooley recruited most of the guys on the field, always intended to run Sabans 3-4 defense. You can start with our d-line, we don't have a consistent pass rush because our ends were recruited to be 3-4 ends. OLB's are the pass rushers in a 3-4.
 
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It still amazes me how many people from those classes of ours did not pan out or are not with the team any longer. So, stability for Stanford and anyone else is a good thing.
 
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That if you keep the ball on offense and pound it at Oregon and take the time off the clock. You will win. This would have been the exact strategy Saban would have used if they had played Oregon. Much like they did last year to ND.
 
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vols1215 said:
That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
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nnnoooo....we only tried the 3-4 crap one year. So only the 2012 class, and that worthless POS Sunseri was only around the last month of the recruiting period, so that might not even be true.
 
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Aesius said:
Their recruiting hasn't exactly been bad.

2010: 26th ranked class Yahoo Sports: Rivals.com 2010 Team Recruiting Rankings

2011: 22nd ranked class Yahoo Sports: Rivals.com 2011 Team Recruiting Rankings

2012: 5th ranked class Yahoo Sports: Rivals.com 2012 Team Recruiting Rankings

They did fall way into the 50s last year, but they only signed 12 players.
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That's good....for the Pac-12. Even Oregon averaged 17th in the country the last 4 years.

Only SoCal has talent at the level of top SEC teams...or did, before probation.
 
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vols1215 said:
That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
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Only one recruiting class was for the 3-4. Before Sunseri UT ran 4-3.

just saying
 
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vols1215 said:
That recruiting rankings can be irrelevant. More important to recruit for the style you plan to play and coach the mess out of em. We have a coach that is recruiting players and not just chasing stars. Also has a pretty good track record of success. Keep in mind just about all of our defensive players were recruited as 3-4 guys, not going to be a quick or easy transition.
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Stanford has some great O-lineman and their defense is very aggressive. It doesn't matter what talent you have if you aren't willing to gamble some with it. Against Bama Jancek took no chances early on and it cost us. Same can be said on the offensive end in the Mizzu game. In this day and age, when you play great teams you have to find ways to make breaks. You have to generate pressure on defense, and you have to find ways to make big plays on offense. We have talent here, not a ton but some, but we don't use it properly most the time. I mean WTF was Dooley thinking last year by not allowing CP to return every punt for us? We just find ways to waste talent. If it were me I'd put PIG on special teams, and I'd also find ways to generate pressure on defense by blitzing all out on some plays. I wouldn't worry about my players getting injured because if we don't do something against great teams we are going to lose, especially on the road.
 
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Orangedogsrule said:
so, ... they're talkin about the current roster.

And yes 3-4 is what most of the d were expected to play
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The only guy recruited for a 3-4 was Mt Mc, and he's been 100x better in the 4-3. You can't convince me we recruited under Dooley for two years in hopes to eventually run a 3-4 when we recruited 4 LBs here in three years.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Agree. Not sure where the OP got this info.
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I'm starting to think there's an official UT excuse depot situated somewhere that works kind of like a magic 8-ball spitting ever more random and inane excuses each day. I think this is a better explanation than someone just sitting at home and deciding that it makes sense to claim that the majority of our defensive players were recruited for a system we ran for less than a year.
 
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logical fallacy:
stanford is in the top ten with non-5 star recruits
tennessee has non-5 star recruits
therefore, tennessee will be the top ten
 
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