I'm not one to shill for Premium, but the mods on premium have given several examples of how Flood destroyed the program & why this is a complete rebuild.
How nice. That's a really bad narrative, and a crappy word to use. But that's their choice. I choose to live in the positive and drink a glass that is half full. But I have always been Mr. Blue Sky. I really could give a crap of what the mods on premium have to say, which is why I don't subscribe. I care what the coaches think and have to say, and I can get that information from plenty of other sources.
So you think it was a good strategy for Flood to make NJ kids come to the Hale Center & figuratively kiss his ring before getting an offer while EPa & NY kids didn't?
No, I see it as a larger problem, but it's easy to make Flood the whipping boy. Julie and Bob have a hand in where we are at right now too, as the perception of the entire sports program took a hit under Julie, so much so that Bob had to keep her bound and gagged in her office. But I still would not say anything is destroyed. I am not defending Flood. I am defending the program. Some of you guys just like to feel bad about Rutgers and now the pre-canned excuses are being laid to be trotted out during recruiting and on the field next year. Every time we miss a tackle, allow a TD or lose a game, we can blame Flood. Got it.
I have no idea nor do I really care WTF you are talking about here. It's over. And if that was/is the case, big boys would realize it's a new era and they are dealing with a completely different coach. How hard is that to understand, and what does it have to do with "destroying"?
Exactly. Destroyed sounds like a word a drama queen would use. Makes it sound like our situation is dire and hopeless. It is not. But if some of you want to think that way, have at it.
When there were 38 4&5 stars from NJ over the past 4 years & the only one we got was a criminal who couldn't pass Dance Appreciation, it's a rebuild. A whole generation of NJ high school talent has grown up & graduated without giving Rutgers a chance.
OK, where the hell did I said that this kid is the next Jerry Rice? All I saw was a bunch of NFL players who was not highly recruited or did not go to a Powerhouse. All I said was Jerry Rice went to the great and powerful Mississippi Valley State University to add my two cents into the above comparisons. I hope kid turns out to be a diamond in the rough but I never said this kid was the next Jerry Rice.
Clearly more of a reboot that a rebuild. But we still have a lot of building yet to do.
It's who, not what, and it's you.OK, so you don't teach self help classes:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:; instead, it's The Bard and the Tudors.
Believe what you want. I did not make up that he comes from a school/league which is not highly recruited. I repeated valid information. I made no statement as to the actual quality of his play.
Sorry, before my time. I started during the Graber years when we were on the bad side of mediocre. I trace the truly negative stuff back to Good Ol' Terry. I'm not a Flood fan, but I laugh any time someone says he destroyed the program. Shea reeeally destroyed the program.
