(08-26-2015 05:27 PM)ECU-DMB Fanatic Wrote: Ummm...Have you ever seen this staff force older kids out of the program.
Yes. I just pointed one out in Rio too. You really think the staff was going to let him hang around after he lost the job and was recruited over. He didn't even transfer anywhere and play either and if he had it would have likely been mutual.
Keith went to like 4 or 5 high schools searching for a starting job, do you honestly think he would still be here if he thought Benkurt was such a forgone conclusion or the staff wouldn't have told him to go if nothing else so he would have a shot?
Quote:Also the reason we signed Kemp from the JUCO ranks was because we lost our #1 target in that recruiting class very, very, very late
So the hell what? We got Carden basically a week before signing and he had no D1 offers really. He didn't get first shot at the job either it did come open too. Didn't make a hill of beans either.
Don't give me BS recruiting crap from several years ago when we have many walk on's like Hardy, and scrubs like Carden, Chris Johnson etc no one wanted. That's the last freaking thing to worry about. If they are here and more importantly they are still here for several years they are here for a reason.
Quote:and they had to pick someone up to fill a spot and give us enough guys to practice. I do not think Kemp was signed with the thoughts of him being a #1 guy in the future.
All the more reason why you don't redshirt him if he's just some stop gap and useless. This is just common logical sense. You don't redshirt JUCO's. If he was just that they wouldn't have done that. Period. They would have moved him out as quick as possible if he had not ability to help us. You don't invest in a guy like that with a redshirt.
Quote:It will be interesting to see how it works out....Whoever ends up starting could be a pleasant surprise but make no mistake, Benkert was the #1 guy and the future QB after Carden graduated.
Just like Rio was
. Forgive me for not crowing the guy when there was so much evidence and simple logic around it wasn't such a forgone conclusion. You don't redshirt JUCO's just so they can sit 2 years as upperclassmen behind a sophmore. Sorry that makes zero sense. You also don't also keep a senior around to sit behind a sophmore and waste his senior year and waste a grant you could be getting a young guy learning on.
They were certainly in the mix for the job or Ruff is running a clown show that will have cost us by not trimming the fat much less preserving it.