But not all of this one.

Denson's recruiting was not too good although he did help recruit his geo. area well. As of now, we have what 4-5 RB of which none are 4*. Ouch. Still some of that was because of 2 4* getting kicked out and one high 4* from Indy not getting admitted (he was good enough to play at USC this year) despite being committed for about a year. But I will agree, we now have some grab bagging going on in the Rb position because of his misses.

But on the field, his crew did excellent which indicates his coaching was pretty good. CJ was a converted safety/Slot receiver who turned into a breakaway 1000 yard rusher and a 3rd round NFL pick. Adams came in as questionable due to an ACL injury in H.S. causing him to miss a lot of time. I don't recall his stars but believe he was not a consensus 4*. He hit it out of the park in his 3 years at ND setting a frosh record and 2 other 1000 Yrd season (IIRC). Entering this year, we had our "best" guy with less that 600 yards total and he was suspended the first 4 games of the year. He almost got his 1000 yards rushing this year with over a 6 YPC average.

The capper in this is that we set the all time YPC in 2017 (yeah the line was great which was a big part of it) and all without a fumble by a RB in what all 3 years?

His guys might not have liked him and his recruiting suffered perhaps because of his personal style but they did perform on the field.

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The biggest problem I saw was lack of recruiting and the inability of all of our backs to block, which hamstrings the offense.