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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years 
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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years One problem, though, is that while professional scouts are good at what they do, they aren't scouting the majority of recruits. The pool of recruits is too large to do film breakdown on every recruit, so by and large the recruiting services stick with the established pipelines/major high school football programs. In-depth analysis probably goes into the ratings of a few hundred recruits, probably nowhere near a thousand. Those recruits round out the Top 250/Top 247/Top 300 and the recruits who just missed that cut. But for the vast army of 2 and 3 star recruits, the services base the initial ranking almost exclusively on who has offered them. They lean on the analysis of the programs themselves to get a kid on their radar. Then they might look over the tape on a kid the missed and bump them up a little. There's just too much evidence that offers affect rankings to assume in-depth independent analysis of all recruits by the services.
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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years Platini got the same eight year ban, and everyone assumed he was going to succeed Blatter. Most of the cronies are still under US federal investigation. I think the only people left running FIFA are the ones who honestly want to clean it up, but were unable to fight the corruption from inside. This is a systematic dismantling of a corrupt organization, both from within and without.
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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years In other shocking news, Blatter said at a meandering mess of press conference that he blames the United States for his ban. He made a jab that if we had been awarded the 2022 World Cup, the investigation would never have happened. The guy is an egomaniacal sociopath.
I still think it's funny, though, that basically the entire civilized world despised Blatter and knew FIFA was corrupt as hell, yet could do nothing about it, and then along come the Americans, who give half a shit about the sport, and basically bring the entire organization to its knees overnight. I think the rest of the world should now be forced to call the sport soccer.
With all the focus post-LOLUVA being about Fuente getting his staff in place and his early recruiting successes, does anyone else have to pause a moment and think, oh yeah, this game will be Frank on the sideline and Lefty in the booth?
Probably makes the score prediction easier.
I figured he wouldn't sign his grant-in-aid if he wasn't 100% certain, but its nice to get absolute closure on it.
Why? We just hired the hottest up and coming offensive mind in the college game, signed the top JUCO QB in the country, who will be competing with another four star QB for the starting job, have four well-regarded WR verbals, three of whom will be enrolling early, and who will all be competing yo complement the top receiver in the ACC in 2015, plus a glut of talent at the tailback position and finally some depth on the OL to the tune of eighteen bodies to fill the five spots.
We will be fine with or without this kid. This kid, however, might have a far better college career if he switches to the good guys.
Waiting for confirmation that Demetri Moore is enrolling early. I assume as a JUCO, he would, but I've yet to see anything specifically confirm that. Or, in fact, any mention whatsoever of when he will enroll at Tech.
Calling it now. We crack the top 20 by signing day.
"Dead period."
This. I agree, if you only rely on JUCO kids, there can be problems. But behind Jerod Evans stands Dwayne Lawson with 3 years of eligibility and Joshua Jackson with 4.
Look at it this way: in 2016, everyone will be new at their position in Justin Fuente's offense. This is a perfect time to have a QB transition, because QB1 won't have to spend all offseason unlearning Lefty's scheme and replacing it with Fuente's. All the other skill positions will be learning a new scheme just like the early enrollees. Other than from a standpoint of conditioning and adjusting to the speed of the game at the P5 level, this spring will be a very level playing field.
Okay.
And if everything goes to plan, Fuente's offense will put points on the board, putting our opponents in a hole, making them desperate, giving our DBs more opportunities to do DBU things.
Nothing to see here.
Wait a minute. Wasn't this post a video of something else just like ten minutes ago???
FWIW, we had a crystal ball flip to us yesterday. Some dude named Christopher Nee, follows the Noles.
Speaking of, did Ekanem or Shai's recruiting rank drop with their senior season (high school) knee injuries?
So of our six recruits projected to play at skill positions, five are enrolling early. With Frank coaching through the bowl game on Boxing Day, that means Evans, Jackson, Deablo, Denmark and Kumah will essentially be in the program from the very beginning of the Justin Fuente era.
Because he signed with us, duh.
Waaaaaay off topic, but does anyone else think Sam looks a little like Tyrod?
Well, to be fair, we were kind of at an unfair advantage there. Our coach announced partway through the season he was retiring, so the AD had a head start on the coaching search....
Wait...
Yeah, but then he was the one who posted it to Twitter. Kid might just have RBF.
Tokyo Sexwale is a strong candidate, but don't count out the darkhorse.
