Devin Abraham, East Lake DB

[SJT]

Hem, it did surprise me that this area produces so many quality linemen. Seems to me that the bulls get better recruits from outside of Tampa area which brings a good question. Wonder why the bulls are struggling with local schools

[Reliable Source]

Hem, it did surprise me that this area produces so many quality linemen. Seems to me that the bulls get better recruits from outside of Tampa area which brings a good question. Wonder why the bulls are struggling with local schools

Got the top Offensive player and Top Defensive player in the Bay committed. Doesn't sound like a struggle to me.

[Hem]

It will always be tough when you are going a against programs like Michigan, Florida, Georgia and Alabama for recruits. We should not lose recruits to mid level power 5 conference schools though, that's the fight that we need to win most. The big boys will always get theirs, it's who's left after that's most important for USF, at this point in our program.

[SANJAY]

The issue on linemen is not quality. It's the quantity of that quality. We're never going to make a living beating Bama, ohio state etc for players. But we can beat out wvu, nc state and that mid level. Unfortunately we've not been doing that enough.

[BDYZR]

What Sanjay said...

[Hem]

What Sanjay said...

Which is exactly what I said in the post right before him...

[charsibb]

To turn this thread in another direction, I think we need bigger and better linemen. Anybody agree?

 

[Hem]

So Abraham will early enroll with the JUCO kids. I'm excited for such a big class. Hope we can pull 31 good ones, the more of Coach T's guys we get in here, the better.

[Jhp08c]

Hem, it did surprise me that this area produces so many quality linemen. Seems to me that the bulls get better recruits from outside of Tampa area which brings a good question. Wonder why the bulls are struggling with local schools

Why?  Because we've never won a conference championship, we're not known for sending O-lineman to the NFL, we are still relatively new and don't have tradition like FSU, Michigan, etc, and believe it or not but when these kids parents were in college they probably grew up FSU UF and UM fans since USF didn't have a team while they were young.  It'll take time!

[SJT]

I didn't say we should get all of the recruits but you are telling me we can't get a decent amount of recruits when we had the Bcs tag the last few years? So you can't recruit if you don't win championships?