A couple of thoughts: In a lot of cases high school athletes are DBs and WRs, and they get slotted for one or the other in college. I think that’s common knowledge. What to stop us from shifting a young WR who is probably going to struggle to get on the field on offense back to the defensive backfield and get him trained up for a year or so?
The other thought is what the heck is going on? It seems like we’re just pouring money in and piling up bodies, experienced bodies, everywhere. I like it, but I’m dying to know the back story of our strategy. Does this signal that we too have figured out a cheat code to sidestep the Deloitte “true NIL” approval for any deal over $600 going forward. Very clearly the biggest of the bigs have.
That 2019 class was something special then. Hubbard and Harvey. The Florida cousins Milledge and Williams got into a fight on the Corner and got kicked out. Briggs quit mid-season and transferred. Jackson and Cypress played 6 years. Smiley and Clary are going for 7 years this Fall. Wicks is going into his 3rd NFL season. Hollins and Perry (RIP). Stewart was highly rated, but he and the other guys in the class rarely played.
The way I remember it was the Harvey and Hubbard weren’t directly implicated in the fight or whatever else went on, but they were around it enough that UVA was decisive. Whatever that means, they had to go too. That hurt us a lot, but looking the other way would be a bad call.
