TW's recruiting was a downward spiral that started out
by bleedsgreen04 (2019-01-22 09:35:07)

In reply to: BS - 3rd year is inexcusable  posted by Pat85

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about where Kelly has been recruiting for a while now. You're right, the cupboard was not that bare based on the 2005 and 2006 season, because those classes had upperclassmen talent. They couldn't succeed against teams like OSU or LSU in the bowl games because they did not have depth, but they could hold their own against very good teams in, let's say, a home game.

But the cupboard was EXTREMELY bare come 2007 thanks to Ty's golfing. The head coach does not "own that 100%", don't be ridiculous. Now some of the recruiting is on Weis there, he could have mitigated one of the bad classes some by coming in to recruit right away rather than staying on with the Patriots for a few more months.

I do agree, a better coach would have done a lot better than 3-9 in 2007. But even an Urban Meyer could not have coached that team to 9-3. I would say a good coach could have brought the 2007 team to 5-7, while even a guy like Urban Meyer would have needed a miracle to get them to 8-4 thanks to Ty's lazy ass. There's a reason why Urban Meyer turned Notre Dame down, look how quickly he won at Florida... he knew he had no chance of achieving that at Notre Dame.

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