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Originally Posted by Braincase
I disagree. On the phog board, there was a huge thread from a bunch of ND posters that talked about the recruiting issues that WIllingham had created. By the time Charlie got to his third year, after coming in late his first year, he had tremendous issues with his offensive and defensive lines. He had recruited well, but he had no upper classmen linemen in his ranks to fill after his Bowl teams graduated. The guys that Willingham recruited either transferred or couldn't stay academically eligible. He had to play underclassmen or scrub upperclassmen on his lines and they couldn't get it done. As it was ND, he also couldn't go out and get JuCo players either. So he went to KC... and turned Matt Cassel into a Pro Bowl quarterback. He didn't get along with Haley (who did? God knows they're loving him in Pittsburg) so he went to Florida. The QB got hurt, and the offense didn't perform well.
Kansas is never going to become a football juggernaut. We might get to a point where we can compete. We have to get some horses in the stable, and that doesn't happen right away, and it sure as hell doesn't happen when you change coaches every two years because you have a delusional fan base that thinks KU can become K-State in two years. How long did it take Snyder to build that program?
In the meantime, we just have to be who we are. We'll build where we can, and hopefully catch a few breaks. We'll have to recruit better, and we're sure as hell getting better talent than we ever did under Gill. We've stolen a couple of recruits, and we'll start to get a few things going our way. We're two games into the conference season, and Rome wasn't built in a day.
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Charlie Weis was at Notre Dame from 2005-2009. Some of his recruits while there include:
Jimmy Clausen
Golden Tate
Michael Floyd
Kyle Rudolph
Manti Te'o
Tyler Eifert
Sam Young
I'd like to see what Cozart can do. The running element of the QB is so important in college and Heaps just can't do it.