But you said we were bringing in higher rated guys since the Fiesta Bowl in 2020. So if that were to be true, why would we need to bring in experience at the top, if our top *should* be …as you claimed…higher ranked guys than we’ve had in the past?
We haven’t seen any of the guys that you listed play any meaningful minutes, but now they’re in line for 20-30 catches?
It’s really had to take what you say seriously when a lot of the stuff you claim just simply isn’t true, and you compare incoming freshman to HOF NFL WR’s (for that WR to never play at ISU and transfer out)
So
many errors…
He literally did not repeat what you said. You said we relied on transfers in the first years of CMC then turned the hs recruiting post Fiesta Bowl. Which, if you look strictly at production on field, is not the case. The last HS recruit to lead us in receiving was Deshaunte in 2019. It has been a transfer every year since.
I don’t see how anyone can say we have recruited, developed, and have gotten major production from hs recruited wide receivers outside of 2-3 guys? Noel, Deshaunte,….?
He LITERALLY repeated EXACTLY what I said—and then you did too. And then you try to tell me something I distinctly did NOT say.
I said that the teams had been led in receiving by returnees, then transfers and JC’s through the first several years of the program. That would be guys like Lazard and Butler, transitioning to guys X and Eaton and Pettway.
This Fall was the first time since Deshaunte a CMC recruit led—but #2 was yet another transfer.
Starting from the top:
A. The Fiesta Bowl was 2021, not ‘20. And the first recruiting class that season impacted was the ‘22 class—the recruiting impact of a season is
always the year after.
B. That ‘22 class of WR’s was Gaines, Essex and Adams. A four star, a high three star and a guy who had run a 10.49 100m. They were a clear step up in profile from preceding classes. That two didn’t pan out had little to do with actual talent.
C. The HS classes of what turned out to be actual WR’s prior to them were Scates, Shaw and Schlecker (‘18), Anderson and James (‘19), Jackson and Bitter (‘20) and Noel and Michaud (‘21).
Scates was a fluke signing (as was Isheem Young, but for very different reasons) because of his academics, and while Noel was merely a three star, he’s the only other player who profiles athletically with the last two (now three) WR signing classes.
Essex will only be a sophomore next Fall. Ngoyi, Black and Parkes are another notch up athletically from the ‘22 class—as are Eskildsen and Overby.
D. Deshaunte Jones caught 37 passes as a true freshman, Noel 39. I’m not sure how anyone could expect a young player to catch more than that in a possible breakout year next season. Or, conversely, how anyone can say that 20-30 catches isn’t a realistic possibility for a freshman.
I’m not saying that one of them
will, I’m saying that’s the
most can be expected from them.
Anyway,
that is why the staff is looking for an upperclassman to come in and add experience to the room. Because a third wideout who could snare fifty would better complement Noel and Higgins.
