I've organized them into categories....
Knowles can't recruit/coach (and Laurinaitis can)
Knowles can't recruit/coach (and Laurinaitis can)
- Don't Knowles anything about recruiting..........or how to scheme a defense in big games. What a waste of $2 mill. Bring back Hafley stat!!!
- OSU has seemed to struggle landing elite out of state LBs lately.
- Let the whiffing continue
- WOW!!! That stinks. Does seem like they can’t get top LB’s under Knowles. Agree need to make Laurinaitis full time
- Need to make Laurinitis [sic] full-time asap. Knowles doesnt have the recruiting chops to represent the LBs on the road
- I've assumed this is an issue with linebacker recruiting in the Knowles era; plus you really can't ignore that the program has had a persistent issue with being a place where highly rated linebacker recruits show up and are never heard from again.
- This is part of what you get when you run a gimmick defense.
- This is starting to feel a lot like last year’s defensive recruiting misses
- Damn. We really gotta start getting some of these high-end defensive recruits. It seems like for every one we get,we lose five. Frustrating.
- Knowles 2 LB defense is a hindering in recruiting 3 top LB's per year. Plus Knowles can't/doesn't recruit. Day knew that when he hired him. 2 mil per. Whew!!
- Put James up to LBer coach. WTF Day we going to keep losing LBers until that is done
- It has always concerned me that we hired a DC who can't recruit and has never, as in 30+ years, shown much interest in doing so.
- We need to close on some elite defensive recruits, or we are just Oklahoma of 5 years ago.
- Meh... he was probably concerned about how long it was going to take to see the field. Got way, WAY better prospects who cant get on the field now. Would have been a nice project by hardly a 'difference' maker
- I can think of several must get LBs in the past that were rated ahead of this guy that never made even a rotation, not contributing much at all. We will be fine without this young free agent. Our money will be better spent on the DEs and DT still on our radar.
- Choosing Gator Bowl glory over playoff opportunities. Good for him for forging his own path.
- Can’t blame the kid for opting for an ND education, but that football choice will haunt him after going to the Weed Eater bowl, Famous Idaho Potato bowl and the Fight Hunger bowl.
- I believe he is embracing the myth that attending ND makes one a slam dunk Fortune 500 CEO by the time you're thirty because God and a lot of gas-bag, snooty, white alumni are out there waiting to embrace you.
- Unless we were going to make [Laurinaitis] pope nobody could have saved this recruitment.
- This was strictly a religious decision.
- Not a surprise at all. He went to Bible camp and pulled the bait and switch wearing Ohio State gear.
- Mama said, "Don't argue with Jesus."
- Alot of ppl blaming Knowles when this was 100% a religious pick lol. Whatd you want the man to do show up to meet him as Jesus? Lol
- Well that one is a kick in the buckeyes.
