(09-21-2014 06:41 PM)HP-TBDPITL Wrote: Lance Lewis was not a Skip recruit to ECU...he was brought in as a last minute JUCO pickup after Ruff was hired.
Donnie Kirkpatrick. Skip left the exact same recruiting coordinator he had brought here for Ruff thankfully, and had been on Lewis really since high school while Skip was here. Yeah we got him out of JUCO but the only players in that class Ruff really landed without committing to the last staff or with their aid were Carden and Hardy. Not do shabby last minute add on's I'll say but it was still a solid class or makings of it left by Skip that included the ground work on guys like Davis and Lewis.
Quote:Chris Johnson was also not a Holtz recruit...and Skip would only give him 15 touches or so a game some games...
....and he was hell a raw and pretty much only deserved that many his first 3 years. Don't even pretend he was the beast he turned into his senior year under Skip his first few years.
Quote:Ross and and Wilson were ENC kids that developed...typical of ECU...under any coach.
You put 80lbs of muscle and turn a recruited no star/no offer RB into an on a guy like Wilson and make him a DL and send him off to the NFL you deserve some credit.
Quote:I'll give him credit for Harris, Allison and Joseph.
There were a lot more solid players as well.
Quote:Keep in mind that Skip had a different DC at ECU than USF...many ECU fans credited the DC with developing the kids.
He also had Rick Smith who many fans now call the brains behind our old Holtz defensive schemes and who Hudson himself gives credit for being his primary mentor.
Quote:And Skip's 2009 class of recruits (his last yr at ECU) was probably the worst class of recruits in the entire decade.
I think his last class was really mostly Ruff's first class, but even 2009 had Justin Jones, Michael Brooks, Will Simmons, Tutor, Dobson, Wiggins, Givoni Ruffin, Pasut, Milner, Hunt, Ty Holmes, Jimmy Booth. There were a lot of guys that made positive impacts on the field even on 8 and 10 win teams the last couple years as upper classmen. It wasn't all bad. That was actually a very nice foundation.