A preemptive thought..Give up the "X coach can't close" talk

[chapelhillduck]

Yes our D-line is the weakness of the team, but do we really have other glaring weaknesses? Anyone? We lost 3 games last year, how many games does Florida lose next year because their QB has never started before? I would say at least 1 or 2...This staff has done an excellent job recruiting the past couple of years and all we need is one of our diamonds in the rough recruits to kick ass on the interior D-line. There are at least 3 huge guys that could potentially step in and be better than good. Even our Defensive ends are great. Right now we have one great Defensive end for next year and we have recruited another potential great end in Curtis. Washington looks like a beast as our threads say and McCain could come in and dominate. We are not lacking at any obvious position except for two big uglies in the middle (which we would have had if Wade, Fili, Thompson, Brown had made it into school). Chip and Nick can't take kids tests for them , get over it. I realize that some of you guys feel the need to bitch when we miss out on recruits, because that is pretty much the only way to get out frustration, but that overlooks that this will be the best recruiting class ever when all is said and done.

Think about Easley this way...if you have the choice between gold, silver, and bronze bricks you would pick gold. If you have the choice between silver and bronze you pick silver. For Easley UF has always been gold and we were ALWAYS silver.

We are not a traditional football powerhouse like Nebraska that can recruit off of that legacy
We don't have weather like Florida or Southern Cal that can recruit off of that legacy
We aren't in the same academic ball park as Stanford that can recruit off of that
We are Oregon

[hendrg]

Good points, we are pretty darn good at D-end and solid at LB with a lot of talent in the secondary with a lot more coming in this class.

Like Rob Moseley pointed out very well:

One thing to remember at this point is that two of the players who made the biggest splash on the scout team last season were defensive end Anthony Anderson and defensive tackle Taylor Hart. Also, tackle Wade Keliikipi is a big body who is also entering his redshirt freshman year after missing most of last fall following shoulder surgery.

I doubt any of the non-JC D-line recruits this year participate much (if at all) in 2010, but we really need them to get up for speed for 2011 unless injuries hit.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Great post. The same thing me & others have all said. We have one real weakness on the team & its only because 3 different big time DTs couldn't get their school work done. That's not on NA or Chip.

[neezy3]

Well we lose 3 more next year so where is the depth going to come from after that, how can we not sign dt's it makes no sense. Until we have a dominate front four who can pressure the qb without bringing extra guys we'll remain average on defense.

[ChipKellyKapowski]

There's a billion different factors that go into a kid making his decision... Are some coaches better salesmen than others? Sure. But you can't base your opinion of a coache's ability to sell the program on what kids ultimately decide to do with their futures.