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    Turning heads nationally helps recruiting 10 fold

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    Quote Originally Posted by MetryCajun View Post
    Good kid, student of the game, intangibles, deceptively fast, disciplined, runs good routes. All the cliches everyone uses to describe white athletes. I have no idea if he is a good kid, but he looks like a football player to me.
    Btw, what position will this kid play in college? 3rd down back or slot receiver.
    Are you projecting media booth talk with thi?

    How is that relevant to the topic?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cajunsmike View Post
    I don't know about worst recruiter as Coach Baldwin left Coach Bustle only about 50 eligible players. Granted the resources he was provided by administration were virtually nil. We do have talent on the current team on offense which previous staff brought in. Defense is my concern for 2018.
    Hud had a lot better talent when he got here than Napier had when he got here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cajunsmike View Post
    I don't know about worst recruiter as Coach Baldwin left Coach Bustle only about 50 eligible players. Granted the resources he was provided by administration were virtually nil. We do have talent on the current team on offense which previous staff brought in. Defense is my concern for 2018.
    50 is about 10-15 below normal.


    A class of 25 brings it back to 75 and 85 is the limit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MetryCajun View Post
    The only time I ever talked to Hud was in a Lafayette hotel after the August flood. We didn’t get to talking football. And I believe you about him not recruiting them or the Fields kid. Hud was a horrible evaluator of talent and the worst recruiter this university has had since I started following the program.
    For the record I hate all the cliches put on these athletes. All are unproven at the collegiate level and will have to work extremely hard to be successful. Hopefully these kids sign with us and can be a part of a winning team.
    I get it, you were just pointing out the stereotypes in recruiting. I can tell you they unequivocally exist as I witnessed in my number of years covering camps. The worst perpetrators of the stereotypes of white athletes are white coaches. And most of those coaches are in the deep South, you see much less of it in the North and West. You can see it in the number of white skilled athletes offered at programs like Stanford, Notre Dame, Wisconsin and a number of other programs. That's been my experience first hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CajunT View Post
    I get it, you were just pointing out the stereotypes in recruiting. I can tell you they unequivocally exist as I witnessed in my number of years covering camps. The worst perpetrators of the stereotypes of white athletes are white coaches. And most of those coaches are in the deep South, you see much less of it in the North and West. You can see it in the number of white skilled athletes offered at programs like Stanford, Notre Dame, Wisconsin and a number of other programs. That's been my experience first hand.
    On vacation out west this week. Amazing how few African Americans you see out here. That is why you see so few black athletes on some teams in the MWC compared to the south. Simply less of them in their geographic area. All that being said, I am encouraged the current staff does not have a Stereotype approach in their recruiting philosophy. I just want the best players we can possibly get that will represent us well. Race and everything else is immaterial.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cajunsmike View Post
    I don't know about worst recruiter as Coach Baldwin left Coach Bustle only about 50 eligible players. Granted the resources he was provided by administration were virtually nil. We do have talent on the current team on offense which previous staff brought in. Defense is my concern for 2018.
    The only thing Baldwin could do was recruit, but we hasn’t really good at that either, so yeah, no argument he was just as bad. I also see talent at the WR and RB position, two of the easiest positions to find good players. Don’t see it elsewhere, but it could have been coaching. I have high hopes that this new culture and improved conditioning will solve some of our OL/DL issues.

    Back to the topic...Hard to not like what Napier is doing on the recruiting trail. Exciting times.

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    Awfully excited to get this kid. To be greedy, anyone know how big the parents are? Just wondering if he is done growing? I wouldn't mind him being another Elfrid and put on a few inches and pounds while here.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cajunsmike View Post
    On vacation out west this week. Amazing how few African Americans you see out here. That is why you see so few black athletes on some teams in the MWC compared to the south. Simply less of them in their geographic area. All that being said, I am encouraged the current staff does not have a Stereotype approach in their recruiting philosophy. I just want the best players we can possibly get that will represent us well. Race and everything else is immaterial.
    I don't know where you are at on Vacation Mike, but there is no shortage of Black athletes in large urban areas on the West Coast or Midwest, Vegas, Denver, Seattle , Kansas City, etc; now other areas do not have a large minority population. But there is no shortage of black athletes available to the programs I mentioned. The coaches in those programs look for the best fit, system and academics, and not skin color.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CajunT View Post
    I don't know where you are at on Vacation Mike, but there is no shortage of Black athletes in large urban areas on the West Coast or Midwest, Vegas, Denver, Seattle , Kansas City, etc; now other areas do not have a large minority population. But there is no shortage of black athletes available to the programs I mentioned. The coaches in those programs look for the best fit, system and academics, and not skin color.
    Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho for week. Rainy day today cut short some of our activities. Encouraged that our current staff appears to be looking for the things you mentioned in your post.

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