Because the Northwestern coach was in an EVEN MORE difficult position considering he’d just come on board as DC and took over a few weeks before fall camp. Started 2-3 and won 5 of 7. Same with USF. The only difference is they didn’t gut their rosters, couldn’t load up in the portal and worked with what they had and now they’re going bowling after being picked to finish dead last in their respective conferences.
I respect the hell out of Deion's ability to pitch to this generation of zoomer kids in a way that's more fresh than anyone else has seemingly done in P5 + use his name brand and the HBCU charm for bringing the 30-40 year old black parent into the fold. But there definitely are some Power 5 program management things that it might've behooved him to see from an assistant/coordinator's POV (obviously too late for that now).
but doesn’t it ultimately boil down to them recruiting players whether from HS or the portal from the same pool? And just looking at commits, he’s not doing that. Kids are decommitting and idc what “separate challenge” you talking bout, to only have 9 players committed at this point deserves scrutiny. Just using your celebrity trying to get kids who don’t even remember your playing days is a dangerous game.
Again, these kids only have YouTube clips and their parents nostalgic takes on who Deion was as a player. This fresh approach has only garnered the attention of 9 commits so far and it’ll take more than 1-2 flips to call this a successful class and be anywhere near competitive. We out here giving credit for mediocrity.
They're your squad, you flexed all summer about them comin'...did you not consider their weak ass depth chart and inability to navigate conference play and recruit thereafter?
But UFs staff is putting in work and building relationships. You see Napier and his staff at games on Friday nights. You not seeing none of that with Deion. And before anyone says “how you know?”, these nikkas love throwing shyt up for clicks and likes on social media. You think THIS is the time they decide to go zero dark thirty?
