Before coming to conclusions like Hammock and company screwed up or “missed” on Justin Lynch, a look at some facts, and then some observations.
Temple offered Justin Lynch on June 14, 2019 after his So. season and before his Jr. season started. I don’t know if these stats for Justin Lynch’s So. year are correct?
https://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/justin-.../stats.htm
However, I recall that he was not the starting QB in his So. year, and when I heard about the Temple offer, I thought Carey is betting on the potential, in essence hoping to catch lightening in a bottle a second time. Maybe Justin will be a great QB or not start or somewhere in between. As is clear and as someone already pointed out, merely being Jordan’s younger brother does not mean he is the second coming of Jordan Lynch.
Justin Lynch’s other offers per his twitter account in chronical order:
WMU: Dec. 3, 2020
Brown: Dec. 12, 2019
NIU: Jan. 21, 2020
Kent St.: Jan. 21, 2020
BG: Jan. 27, 2020
CMU.: Jan. 28, 2020
Based on this, the timing of the NIU offer was within the 2-month time frame of all his offers, except Temple. I don’t know if these are the exact dates of the offers. Presuming that Justin posted the offers as they came in (which looks to be the case), conclusions like NIU was late and four other MAC schools “reached out” to Justin Lynch before NIU is incorrect; and it is not “embarrassing” to extend an offer within the same time frame as the other non-Temple offers.
And these are the dates of his offers. Who says that NIU did not “reach out” to Justin (and/or Jordan) before the Jan. 21st offer? Hammock and company not keeping the communication going with Jordan wouldn’t make sense, and we don’t know what happened with Justin specifically and with Jordan/Mount Carmel generally. After all, the Mount Carmel championship game was at NIU, and does anyone know if Hammock and/or other NIU coaches “reached out” to Justin and/or Jordan before or after that game at NIU or for that matter before that game? I hardly think that the NIU Jan. 21st offer was some cold “token” offer without any prior contact.
Justin had a good championship game, rushing for 120 yards and passing for 87 yards. I don’t know what his Jr. season stats are, but does that sound more like a Carey or Hammock QB? Don’t you think Jordan and Justin knew Dustin Fletcher is Hammock’s “guy”, and felt Justin might not start until his senior year? Couple that with the Jordan/Carey relationship, Justin valuing the very early Temple offer, and other points made in this thread, and Justin committing to Temple is not a huge shock. I am curious to see how Justin’s Sr. season goes, and if a big year results in some P5 offers.
Do I wish we got Justin? Yes. However, take a deep breath and relax; this is not some kind of horrible recruiting screw up or a “miss”, at least IMO. It seems Justin selected Temple as he (likely with significant input from Jordan) felt it was the best fit. I really like our 2020 class, and hope we get a few more in a couple of days. Time will tell if this class turns out as good it looks on paper, including Dustin Fletcher, as well as Jay Ducker, who I am also very high on.