Palmetto Proving Grounds

Rolin would be a great addition. Just watched his film for the first time. Very impressive.

Mitch and Rolin would be good pickups. Johnson seems like the same player as Turner.

Seems like we can hold off on the other 2 to see if we can land more elite players first. Especially with limited room in this class.

After the best 2 seasons USC has ever had it should be an easier sell for our coaches.

Let me correct something I don't mind taking project players as long as we only take a handful I just don't want to see a recruiting class like Lou Holtz final class. I am not saying anything negative about the recruits. It is just a little odd after we won 11 games.

where can i get some connor mitch film??

Mangus was the one that scouted and offered the Kamara kid so that doesn't fall on the new coaches, but falls at the feet of a guy we praise as being one of the best recruiters on the staff. Ward is recruiting Johnson who had recruited that school heavily for at least the past 3 years recruitibg Cooper and Harrisso he's watched this kid since he was a soph.

You might be right, just don't think we should keep throwing fault at the new guys.

d-stew plays in the nfl now.

so we have put 2 spurs in the league--one highly touted (allen) and the other "a system player for us" (stewart) as you put it.

so your line of thinking doesn't support your point all that well imo.

Dude said nobody else wants him and we only do because he fits our system.

My point was that it has less to do with our system and more to do with good players. Other schools want these guys who don't run our system along with teams in the NFL.

Stewart was a Cooper guy anyway. Plus he had BCS offers.

It will be fun watching you eat crow on Kamara. Dude blew up at a combine recently and spring evaluations just started. It doesn't matter though some on here will never be satisfied. Our coaches have proven time and again that they are good evaluators and we don't have a choice but continue to trust them on that. (Have they made some mistakes in evaluations? You betcha! Heck one of the coaches who missed was Wolford and everyone was going nuts over his hire!) Yes, we have new faces, but you nor I know if they can recruit, coach, gameplan etc. we will have to wait and see. I will say this though, I can guarantee you that Steve Spurrier isn't going to jeapordize his legacy or his remaining time by having a total "fish" on staff!

my take.

There's a lot more than star rankings to becoming a really good SEC player. The Taters have quite a few 4 & 5 star pospects. We've still mopeed the floor with them for 3 straight years. If our coaches look at a kid, see his measurables, but just as importantly get into the character of the kid and they are sold on him ..... I am sold on him.

the 6'1' 253 kid sounds a lot like Eric Norwood. That worked out pretty well for us. We've not only upgraded the roster talent-wise but character-wise as well. Put thiose 2 together and it spells winner in my book.

I am pretty confident we are not taking commits from projects rather that real prospects. Spurrier is doing it his way. He's doing it better than it's ever been done at USC while it the best football conference in America. I'm pretty certain he's not going to accept commits from guys who cannot play.

A Mohamed and a Pharoh....does it get any better than that! LOL
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