You must not know about Mamantee County football. How many offers were made to recent kids from Manatee County under Skippy? Not many. Leon Allen chose WKU over Miami and some other D1 schools and is the real deal. Bundrage who was a Randy Moss type of receiver at Manatee chose Iowa State with only UCF giving him an offer. We also lost out on Mike Blakely, the Pompey twins, Bo Brand, Dooling from SEHS, and many more. Coach Kinnan didn't stop anyone from choosing USF, he made sure that they chose an offer to a school than actually wanted them there. I know much about the Manatee program and Skip pulled Brion's offer late and luckily he had Nebraska offer up one too. Did Brion loose out, nope but USF sure did. I really hope that we can get USF back recruiting our kids down here as it would be a shame if we allow Cord Sandberg, our front four, and Willie Smith who is a stud for our secondary(but out due to a torn lig). I pray that we can get someone in that can build a better relationship than Skip had with Manatee County coaches.