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Per the WaPo article from when he was first arrested in 2011:

Almost eight months after his mere presence at a fight near James Madison University nearly ended his Cavaliers career, Walcott said hes relying more on intuition these days. Thats how he took full advantage of the second chance Coach Mike London gave him on the football team, at a position hed never before played.

Thats how he came to accept that talking to a psychologist was good for him.

Thats why he wasnt surprised when the coaching staff recently told him to move back to the unit for which he started 11 games last season.

I spent a lot of that time [when he was suspended] by myself, getting help on things that I can do to improve on myself and make myself a better person, as well as a better player, said Walcott, a fourth-year junior. I spent a lot of time reading and just trying to find out why I was making that decision, why that happened to me, why I didnt make a different decision.

Sounds like Mike London helped him learn his lesson.

I think one reason for the disparity here is that a QB's performance relies heavily on a combination of talent and intellect. It's easy to evaluate a kid with a cannon arm when he's throwing 60 yard bombs on target consistently, and when he's making correct reads consistently. However, OL evaluation is much more of a hit and miss thing. You obviously have to have the size and quickness, but a great deal of line play resides in intellect and attitude. Technique can be taught, but you have to have a kid who is capable and willing of instruction. Plus, film is tougher to evaluate due to the visual confusion of line play, especially on film. Attitude sometimes shows up on film, but usually is harder to spot. I think the quality of opponents quite often figures into the difficulty of evaluating linemen as well. I think the talent evaluators almost have to scout the defensive linemen that an O-line player is playing against to scout them properly. This is where camps can really be a huge help in talent evaluation for linemen.

I think quality college linemen have to be developed, which requires spotting a kid with the tools, and coaching them up. Interestingly, we apparently have been pretty good in the evaluation part, just not the coaching-up department.

Its complicated due to the timing of some of the paperwork from his highschool and some NCAA elibigibility rules concerning h.s. graduates who don't have the needed classes.

The thing we're used to seeing is guys like Fisher, who have taken all the required courses but don't have the GPA and/or SAT to qualify. The NCAA allows them to take a post-grad H.S. semester/year and get their GPA up and/or take the SAT again to get their scores up.

In Harris's case, his High School said "Online Geometry 101 is good enough to graduate from our school! Congrats! here's a diploma!" meanwhile Online Geometry 101 was not accredited by the NCAA. (I don't know if that was the exact class but you get the idea) So from the NCAA's perspective he is not elible for Division 1 and his h.s. career is over because he has a diploma. Complicating things is that he enrolled in his post-grad semester /before/ his highschool put in his paperwork, which screwed up his ability to take post-grad classes somehow. So now he has to graduate from JUCO to become eligible.

Spurs are by far one of the best teams he could be drafted into. Yes, they are good so it might be hard for him to find the court. However, a lot of their stars are aging and they are trying to mix in some younger players to allow for a smooth transition in a few years. Above all, though, the Spurs are an extremely well run franchise who place a lot of value on character and willingness to learn. They also have drafted at the bottom every year for the past decade yet still get a top 4 seed in the west every season, which shows how great their player development is. I'm definitely pulling for him to get drafted there.

Wasn't it said by all the recruiting sites that Brown was most likely to stay instate, and that is why he was said to be a UVA lean? I don't know how accurate that is now. Personally, him deciding this early leads me to believe it might be a BAMA or Klemscum(may it never be).

I've been keeping up with Andrew Brown's recruitment since about a year ago and for nearly this whole process, there was ZERO chance we got him. So the fact that we'll make at least his top 3 after having no expectations this whole time is kind of cool. And if he pulls out our hat on Saturday, I, along with everyone on this site, will get absolutely slammed.

OK, that puts us at 1 and 4 then. He has gone silent on twitter, and all the pay sites are being, well, pay sites.

I would like to see UVA get eliminated sooner rather than later. Don't want it to be a UVA/VT battle on the 29th, because then we'll have to hear about it.

I honestly think we have a good chance, and some of the predictors are going based off the family ties and what not too much.

After that interview, if we DON'T get Brown, then he's screwing with us on purpose

That's what I figure he is doing. He'll keep VT's hopes up until Saturday before picking UVA.

Perfect, thanks Dozer.

#RecruitMoreTEs

Nastiness is a definitely a quality you want in an offensive lineman, but I will say that's hard to glean from a highlight film. Although, there aren't many pancake blocks on his film (which may not directly imply nastiness).

To expand upon my original point, these are the rankings Rivals.com gave the first five offensive lineman selected in the last two drafts.

2013 NFL Draft

1/1 Eric Fisher: 2-star
1/2 Luke Joeckel: 4-star
1/4 Lane Johnson: NR (QB 6-2, 202)
1/7 Jonathan Cooper: 3-star
1/10 Chance Warmack: 3-star

2012 NFL Draft

1/4 Matt Kalil: 5-star
1/23 Riley Reiff: 3-star (DE)
1/24 David DeCastro: 3-star
1/27 Kevin Zeitler: 3-star
2/37 Mitchell Schwartz 3-star

Conversely, here are the quarterbacks.

2013 NFL Draft

1/16 E. J. Manuel: 4-star
2/39 Geno Smith: 4-star
3/73 Mike Glennon: 4-star
4/98 Matt Barkley: 5-star
4/110 Ryan Nassib: 2-star

2012 NFL Draft

1/1 Andrew Luck: 4-star
1/2 RG3: 4-star (Mack Brown recruited him as a defensive back. LOL at Mack Brown)
1/8 Ryan Tannehill: 3-star
1/22 Brandon Weeden: NR (predates Rivals.com / minor league baseball)
2/57 Brock Osweiler: 3-star

There are five, 4- and 5-star players for the QBs, while there are just 2 for the offensive linemen. Obviously a more complete analysis would require many more data points, which I don't have the time for. I made my original comment because it seems like more often linemen that weren't highly ranked and were under recruited are being drafted higher. Even my incomplete data supports that a bit.

Think about our two best linemen over the last decade, Grove was rated the No. 20 player in Virginia by The Roanoke Times, and Duane Brown was a 3-star tight end convert.

Across the board recruiting is an inexact science, but to me o-line prospects are way less predictable than other positions.

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