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Post by thewinner on Feb 14, 2024 14:19:10 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play
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Post by ohsixrain on Feb 14, 2024 14:25:49 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong ohsixrain, but I think I understand what you mean by that and I agree. That's a lot of freashmen...I mean a lot. I remember a time (before the portal) that most freshmen were deemed "not ready" for the college game. You gave them a red shirt...let them practice with the team, bulked them up, and taught them to be college students. Then they got on the rotation the next year. It was rare for a freshman to get a lot of play, let alone start. I'm not a football coach...and I know the portal has thrown a monkey wrench in recruiting...but IJS. In any event, in a few years of this...all depending on how many kids we keep around over the years we will be in pretty good shape. Brown in my opinion is building our program the proper way along with using the portal as a plug and play tool the way it should be used. If there are no quality Plug and Play Talent available in the portal at the priority positions of need. A&T will have to rely on it's high school and Juco recruited base. A&T is not in the priority needed positions to have any red shirts at most of its positions in my opinion. If you have a four-game window for true freshman ,a good coaching staff will find away to get the more advanced players on the field and off the bench. My gut feeling tells me that the O and D line,Receiver's, D secondary will have alot of True Freshman in the rotation if not starting in the 2024 season. Yes...I didn't say that all of the freshmen would be starting and/or playing this season. But, you have to admit, if nothing else, the depth is there. Based on what we saw last season coupled with the redshirts and these recruits, they should be able to put a good product on the field. The on-field product last season was hard to watch, we should NOT have that problem moving forward. Again, I don't expect our team to run the table or any of that, if we can put together a .500 season, I am satisfied. But, the coaches will have work to do to put a good product on the field...the tools are there or will be there.
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Post by aggie7983 on Feb 14, 2024 16:10:59 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play thewinner - Why do you think we haven't been able to sign these type players before this year ? Is it being in the MEAC a weaker conference, added recruiting dollars, the portal or something else ?
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Post by saabman on Feb 14, 2024 16:15:15 GMT -5
Brown in my opinion is building our program the proper way along with using the portal as a plug and play tool the way it should be used. If there are no quality Plug and Play Talent available in the portal at the priority positions of need. A&T will have to rely on it's high school and Juco recruited base. A&T is not in the priority needed positions to have any red shirts at most of its positions in my opinion. If you have a four-game window for true freshman ,a good coaching staff will find away to get the more advanced players on the field and off the bench. My gut feeling tells me that the O and D line,Receiver's, D secondary will have alot of True Freshman in the rotation if not starting in the 2024 season. Yes...I didn't say that all of the freshmen would be starting and/or playing this season. But, you have to admit, if nothing else, the depth is there. Based on what we saw last season coupled with the redshirts and these recruits, they should be able to put a good product on the field. The on-field product last season was hard to watch, we should NOT have that problem moving forward. Again, I don't expect our team to run the table or any of that, if we can put together a .500 season, I am satisfied. But, the coaches will have work to do to put a good product on the field...the tools are there or will be there. I agree that is why I said "in the rotation if not starting ". But I do see alot of true freshman getting getting alot of significant playing time this season at the position that I mentioned above. Which in my opinion will be a good thing going forward. Now we will see if A&T's coaching staff can earn there money $$$ .
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Post by saabman on Feb 14, 2024 17:02:37 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play Brown has addressed the help to fill the needed immediate positions on his team . Now if your talking about immediate dominant portal player's then your correct because 99.9% of the time at this level most of those type of individual players are already taken and the one's that are available mostly scout team Benchwarmers that are looking to find playing time somewhere else. So either way you're basically starting from scratch with the benchwarmer have been the advantage to have been coached at this level. I'm not big on Portal players unless they are top-tier portal Talent. If they are not top-tier they're no different than any incoming true freshman or Juco transfer. This class has potential and it is up to the coaching staff to develop that potential.
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Post by AggieDad17 on Feb 14, 2024 22:23:46 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play This is 6,707 pounds, or 3.04 metric tons that we recruited. Some BIG boys about to throw some muscle in the CAA. Get your popcorn
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Post by thewinner on Feb 15, 2024 8:35:23 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play thewinner - Why do you think we haven't been able to sign these type players before this year ? Is it being in the MEAC a weaker conference, added recruiting dollars, the portal or something else ? I think it has everything to do with the Transfer portal. Half of this signing class would have been at the FBS level 5 years ago. I really wouldnt blame the Meac. I think if we were still in the meac we would have been able to sign most of these players. But i think being in the CAA helps if that makes sense. The down side, if these kids play early and are good then they will transfer up a level. and we are back signing elite high school players and D-2. I think that is our new normal I also give credit to Brown and the staff. They went for a Type and stuck to their guns.
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Post by westcoastaggie on Feb 15, 2024 9:31:58 GMT -5
Look at the height and weight of these signees. I cannot speak for the early 2000s 90s and 80s but I can say that ive never seen a recruiting class like this. It lacks the immediate help but still a good class. Im pretty sure quite a bit of freshmen will play thewinner - Why do you think we haven't been able to sign these type players before this year ? Is it being in the MEAC a weaker conference, added recruiting dollars, the portal or something else ? Honestly, It's a combination of what you mentioned. If I were to order it, it would be the following: 1. Transfer Portal 2. Increased Recruiting Dollars 3. perception of competition/scheduling/conference affiliation
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Post by aggie2039 on Feb 15, 2024 9:53:16 GMT -5
thewinner - Why do you think we haven't been able to sign these type players before this year ? Is it being in the MEAC a weaker conference, added recruiting dollars, the portal or something else ? Honestly, It's a combination of what you mentioned. If I were to order it, it would be the following: 1. Transfer Portal 2. Increased Recruiting Dollars 3. perception of competition/scheduling/conference affiliation Also let's not forget we have new coaches with different credentials and recruiting experiences. We have 4 coaches that played NFL ball and coaches and analyst that played in the CAA. Coaches that were High School Head Coaches in the state of Florida. They have connections across the nation that previous staffs didn't have. Our previous staff was mostly made up of former MEAC players that were born in NC, played college ball in NC and coached in NC. We know have coaches that are from FL, GA, VA, NC and have coached and have contacts from Georgia to Florida and up the east coast.
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