The idea that Muschamp actually wanted to take Derrick Henry as a linebacker, and didn't offer him as a RB? Even he can't have been that clueless....
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Pretty sure that's true. And I got no problem with it. We weren't the only ones who did. Pretty sure Saban did initially too, which is why he early committed to UGA. Then he changed his mind and told him he could be a back and the rest is history.
Turn on the Arky game, he also didn't extend an offer to Alex Collins because he had outsmarted everyone and got Adam Lane
That's defiantly true...I remember the talk at the time...not sure if we were even a REAL consideration for Henry at the time but WM wasn't the only team...so did Bama but Henry told Bama that he was a RB. Either way Henry wasn't coming to UF at the time either way if I remember correctly.
Henry holds the record of most rushing yards in HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY. Did the dude ever even play LB?
idk but I remember watching him on TV when he was in high school thinking that nobody could stop this kid. Kind of crazy to try and recruit him to the defensive side when he was doing what he was doing.
I'm certainly no recruitnik, but infer from Derrick Henry's #1 rankings as "athlete" (per 247Sports and ESPN) in the 2013 national recruiting class, which were higher than any of his rankings as a "running back" (#2 per MaxPrep (Lemming) and SN), that he must've, at least occasionally, played some position(s) other than "running back".
One needn't assume that Mousefield thought himself so insanely brilliant that only he would recognize that contrary to the conventional wisdom of recruitniks, his natural position was really linebacker ? And the conclusion probably can't be blamed on an athlete-evaluation computer program, because such an opinion is freely accessible on at least 1 sports-fan Web site:
His 6'3", 238-pound frame makes him look more like a linebacker or a tight end than someone who should consistently run with the ball in his hand. [Marc Torrence: b/r, Dec 29, 2013]
Henry set his record at Yulee High, whose enrollment, as 1 of 3½ 4-year (grade 9--12) high schools[#] in Nassau Co., is most recently tallied as 1,000 in 2010/2011 (i.e.: his sophomore year there). That seems to correspond to FHSAA classification 4-A, assuming it's not playing in an independent conference. So how big was his h.s. team's roster? Would it have been small enough to expect its most formidible athletes to at least occasionally play both ways?
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Note #: The "½" includes the county's 1 public "middle-high school" (grade 6--12); the county's article in Wikipedia lists zero private high schools. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_County,_Florida>.
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Nothing chaps my backside then when a coach tells a player what he will be playing before they ever step foot on campus. Bring them in, see what they can do at the position they want to play. If they do good, great. If they don't pan out at the position they want to play, then move them.
That plan worked out for Joe Cohen, Cornelius Ingram, and Reche Caldwell just off the top of my head.
I remember the years of suffering thru QBs John Brantley and Jeff Driskel. We missed on in state products Denard Robinson, Geno Smith, and Teddy Bridgewater because we recruited them as DB's.
That plan worked out for Joe Cohen, Cornelius Ingram, and Reche Caldwell just off the top of my head.
I remember the years of suffering thru QBs John Brantley and Jeff Driskel. We missed on in state products Denard Robinson, Geno Smith, and Teddy Bridgewater because we recruited them as DB's.
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