A bad signing day?

[micke77]

Just curious as to how many out there who covered the National Signing Day proceedings Wednesday actually heard a coach say he DIDN'T have a good recruiting class or that he was disappointed by what his program landed.
Haven't we all heard the proverbial "my best class ever", "these young men are can't miss prospects" and "I am thrilled by the group of kids we signed" lines?

 

[mustangj17]

The only thing I saw more than a coach saying he was happy with his class, were signing day threads. What is this, three now?

 

[micke77]

good point and pardon me for posting this topic when i probably should have offered such thoughts on one of the other two threads. hell, the overblown National Signing Day is even getting to this scribe. :D

 

[Armchair_QB]

"We've got a great class" ranks right up there with the NFL GM line- "We couldn't believe he was still available" in terms of least surprising quotes you hear every year.

 

[mustangj17]

"We've got a great class" ranks right up there with the NFL GM line- "We couldn't believe he was still available" in terms of least surprising quotes you hear every year.

Pad level.

 

[micke77]

and how many times Wednesday did a coach say a certain recruit will bring "a high level of focus and intensity to our team."

 

[zebracoy]

Actually, the coach at the local state college refused to say last year that it was his best class ever, even when some local TV cherry-picker kept baiting him on it. He said something like "We'll have to see what happens in four years." It was actually one of his worst classes in several years.

I remember only because the same guy told the coach yesterday to "talk about the best players in this class." How about a little research?

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Clearly a guy who has figured out "working smarter, not harder"

 

[WaylonJennings]

I love how they all name each player's high school coach in their press conferences.

One humongous runaway ego stroking another.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

WVU coach Bill Stewart offered this:

They have not hit one person, they have not broken up one pass, they haven’t carried one yard, they have not thrown one pass, and they have not caught any balls. I don’t know if they are worth a pile of beans, and we won’t know that for three years. We don’t have any crystal balls but on paper they look pretty good. But I do know this, they will be good character men while they are here and they are going to attend class and do the best they can academically.

Now, if they turn out to be big-time football players that will be a blessing. I don’t know how good they will be because the game changes, but I do know that they will fit in with our guys well, and if that’s good enough to win some games down the road, then we did ok. We will know in about three years and hopefully they will help us win some games and get a league title because that is our goal. That is it in a nutshell.

 

[WaylonJennings]

WVU coach Bill Stewart offered this:

They have not hit one person, they have not broken up one pass, they haven’t carried one yard, they have not thrown one pass, and they have not caught any balls. I don’t know if they are worth a pile of beans, and we won’t know that for three years. We don’t have any crystal balls but on paper they look pretty good. But I do know this, they will be good character men while they are here and they are going to attend class and do the best they can academically.

Now, if they turn out to be big-time football players that will be a blessing. I don’t know how good they will be because the game changes, but I do know that they will fit in with our guys well, and if that’s good enough to win some games down the road, then we did ok. We will know in about three years and hopefully they will help us win some games and get a league title because that is our goal. That is it in a nutshell.

"Hopefully," Stewart added, "they won't all act like a bunch of n#*$ while they're here."

 

[micke77]

hey Waylon....Bill Stewart is a coach after my heart. now that's telling it like it is. i love it. ;D

 

[WaylonJennings]

hey Waylon....Bill Stewart is a coach after my heart. now that's telling it like it is. i love it. ;D

Um ... I think you missed the reference.

 

[micke77]

Waylon..oops, better go back and peruse it a little closer. was scanning through some of the posts in between writing a story and my cranium locked in on one of the things you had posted and the wrong one(s), obviously.
my oversight.
back to the coaches' offerings, however, on NSD.
i am also always amazed at the bios pumped out by Local U's SID's and the plethora of 4.3's and 4.4's some of these guys run. even Chuckie Fatso, a 365-pound O-lineman, seems to clock sprinter-like speeds on NSD bios.