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You either trust the coaching staff or you don't t. I ll take their opinions over the star awarders all day long everyday.What makes him special? I read Bryan's thumbnail analysis and I looked at his offer sheet ( he's obviously a good student) but overall , isn't it average?
Can anyone tell us? Maybe he is but on paper, it seems hard to justify.
No?
Running back and Wide Receiver are the two positions that "star ranking" matters the least at. At the high school level nearly every team's best athlete is at one of those two offensive positions so there is just an abundance of talent. Every year there are probably 20+ former 2-3 (even no star) WR's and RB's that get picked in the NFL Draft. It's so incredibly hard to rank all the good ones. You could literally have a top 150 for just WR's and RB's and all of them would be very good players.
Take, for example, the Scout rankings this year. I believe they have 28 WR's ranked in their top 140 recruits, 27 or so ranked ahead of Kevin Austin Jr. First of all, there ARE NOT 27 receivers in this class better than Kevin. That is a complete joke. That said, the subjective ranking difference between maybe 10 and 28 is so marginal that you have no idea who is going to work hard, develop better or who has intangibles that weren't included in the rankings... Look around college football, nowhere will you find more former 2-3 star players making huge impacts than at WR and RB.
So what do I think of Jahmir Smith? I think he's solid. To me he is a mixture of Tarean Folston and Jonas Gray. That could mean Julius Jones if he maximizes his upside, or he could never see meaningful reps. 5'11, 200lbs. Really good size heading into his senior season. Will probably play around 215lbs in college and he'll be a bruiser. Decisive back. One cut runner. Lacks top end speed and doesn't have much in the way of wiggle or lateral quickness. Punishes tacklers, however, and like Josh Adams, finishes runs and has that seemingly rare knack for falling forward after contact and always getting a couple extra yards.
Solid overall addition. Keeps the RB group strong. Doesn't upgrade the position at all, but adds quality depth. If you want to see what the ND offense would ideally look like under Long if he had all the pieces he wanted, watch film of 2014-2015 Baylor. Very quick hitting, vertical running game from shotgun and pistol, supported by vertical play action passes and RPO's. Long will pass to the backs more and use more tight ends than Briles did, because he was schooled by Norvell and those are two of his trademarks, but the overall running game would resemble Baylor's. Watch Smith's film and it's evident how his decisive, downhill, style fits that type of attack.
Jahmir Smith's junior film
Baylor rushing attack under Briles
Watch Linwood and the Baylor rushing attack go to work against TCU. Then picture Jahmir Smith in Linwood's role.
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more simply and candidly put: the best RB still 'available' to ND.
Just had to twist the knife, didn't you Eeyore??------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
more simply and candidly put: the best RB still 'available' to ND.
Aren't all pre-season comments or posts baseless??IIO
This is really Long's first opportunity to be 'the guy'; assuming Kelly is hands off. Any references to a 'Chip Long Offense' are as yet premature to baseless. He has so far run offenses that were previously established by the existing H.C.