Hershey McLaurin has committed to Purdue. He played two years of JUCO ball, two at WVU, and one at Houston. He had 50 tackles (sixth on the team) and set a single-season career-best with eight tackles for loss in 2024.
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I'd ask how he still has eligibility, but I've learned to just move on at this point. Rules change and get made up all the time now.
He was asked to leave if memory serves.
IIRC, he wasn't good in space, but he was a sure tackler around line of scrimmage and as I've learned over the years, if a guy can tackle you find a place for him on the field.
He may have lacked some things, but no one who stayed was even as good as he was, lol.
Just me but always hit me as a tweener. Not good in coverage for safety and too small for linebacker. Bit more size and he would have been a fabulous linebacker
He wasn't a great cover guy, so just put him around the line of scrimmage. I did not understand that.
Yes he was, but we live on guys like him and have for a long time. Karl Joseph was a tweener, KJ Dillon was a tweener. Quinton Andrews was a tweener.
The problem is the last bunch struggled to evaluate talent that didn't live in their prototypes.
Like you said we asked those guys to play closer to the LOS and gave them a lot more help in the 3-3-5. In this defense everyone was constantly on an island and wat out of place. He was f'd for a guy with his skill set. Every safety we've had was f'd in that defense.
Which we got little ROI on French imo. He was ok but he had a lot of hype coming in when he transferred
Didn’t see him terrorizing the qb which was his rep like Bruce did
Remember how excited we were when Ty French committed. Poor guy never, never had a chance at his size.
Yikes - he was awful. Shocker that a guy from Gardner-Webb couldn't play P4
He did have that cool pic that @eer2000 loved though lol
"Shocker that a guy from Gardner-Webb couldn't play P4..."
Never heard of Shaq Riddick?
I really thought the whole premise of the defense was going to be play multiple fronts and play different versions of Cover 3. That was not what we ended up with and it was inherently stupid.
Sometimes you hit on a guy who was just missed by scouting services. French looked Tarzan but he was definitely out to lunch on this level.
Yup.
I know people hate him but the last time we effectively played cover 3 was when Addae was running the back end. And that was the last time we could effectively get pressure out of four linemen with no blitz
Funny how that works.
I can't blame them for disliking the guy, but he could coach. It does seem his personality issues followed him as he was asked to leave Georgia and Miami.
I see where he has landed with Buffalo.
Brown probably should have sucked it up and made him DC, kept Lesley on the line and left Shadon Brown at Louisville. May have saved his job. Your back end would have been shored up and you'd still have a pretty good defensive line
Hard to tell where that one went wrong. I would imagine there was more familiarity with Lesley, even though it shouldn't be that way.
Because we had shit for brains in charge of the D.
He probably got frustrated because he thought he could cover a 1st round draft pick WR, and everyone knows that is an inside linebackers job.
On of Brown’s biggest mistakes. He kept the wrong coordinator.
67-year-old Tony Mathis Jr has committed to Marshall.
Why do this when you can have Trotter chase the #8 overall pick in the draft in man coverage 40 yards downfield…
Yeah, he was a true tweener. Can’t be mad at him tho. He played hard, did good work on special teams and managed to make a few plays on defense. Over-hyped, but at least it was never about lack of effort with him.
67-year-old Tony Mathis Jr has committed to Marshall.
He was a Dana recruit, correct?
Tampa 2 isn't something you can just call. It is one of those coverages you have to build a defense for. We did not have the pieces adequate to play Tampa 2.
Yea, I never thought it was a lack of effort and he certainly looked the part. There are times where you get players who may not be the best but you can see where they add something, Dylan Tonkery being one of those. I just didn't see it with French.
Yes and I remember in some drill video he was doing some ass kicking. It's a shame it didn't work for him here.
You have to have Brian Urlacher or Derrick Brooks at linebacker to get 30 yards downfield. Fast, lengthy, good hands.
We turned Trotter into a tweener. Miami offered as a box safety. We put the the weight on him and he lost a ton of speed and then expected him to play linebacker in Tampa 2. How about just master a simple cover 2? Practice it until they puke. "Oh Tampa 2! Let's try that! " Give me a break.
It's like "playing through the receiver". When you are beat by a bigger receiver in the endzone, you worry about doing anything to create a barrier between the ball and the receiver. Don't worry about the ball at that point. Makes sense. Totally get it. Makes total sense.
But for Shadon Brown to say we always coach them to not look for the ball and to play through the receiver after getting absolutely humiliated via pass against .........Albany? And say it with confidence.
Any fool could see through the mistakes that staff made.
The alignment is different and yes the Mike covers the middle third. David Long could probably do it athletically, but I am not sure we have had one since that could.
There was a lot about that defensive staff I didn't understand. For all the shit Neal caught for his headscatching offensive decisions you could double it on defense
Yes. Shadon was at the window the other day when I drove up and he did ask me whether I wanted my order supersized.
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