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Utah offered Kyler Manu too
Cooper McDonald, 2020 3* LB, Justin (Northwest), TX (Committed)
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Utah offered Kyler Manu too
backthepack
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Why don’t want the best recruit at ILB in a class to be Texas Tech caliber. That’s not good enough.
FremontTroll
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
FremontTroll
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@chuck does. No idea if he has weighed in here.
Emoterman
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
That must have been him, but I could have sworn he was hammer. Wasn't he on a track scholarship and walked on? What has become of him?
And being massively huge is the point... Shot put, discus, and hammer attract the massively huge, and select for the most agile/athletic.
Emoterman
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
Just looked it up, yeah that's who I meant. Apparently he recruited himself, he wanted to play football, and Arizona let him walk on while on a scholarship for discus. I was wrong about immediate starter, but apparently a two year starter and he got some NFL tire kicking and is in the XFL.
FremontTroll
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
Just looked it up, yeah that's who I meant. Apparently he recruited himself, he wanted to play football, and Arizona let him walk on while on a scholarship for discus. I was wrong about immediate starter, but apparently a two year starter and he got some NFL tire kicking and is in the XFL.
Yeah he was South African I don’t even know if they have football there. Even though he walked on I was in Tucson at the time and they were excited about him. Kinda surprised he didn’t stick in the nfl with his size and athleticism.
Emoterman
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
Just looked it up, yeah that's who I meant. Apparently he recruited himself, he wanted to play football, and Arizona let him walk on while on a scholarship for discus. I was wrong about immediate starter, but apparently a two year starter and he got some NFL tire kicking and is in the XFL.
Yeah he was South African I don’t even know if they have football there. Even though he walked on I was in Tucson at the time and they were excited about him. Kinda surprised he didn’t stick in the nfl with his size and athleticism.
Apparently the most football he played before Arizona was Madden. He started at DL, then TE before settling at OT.
I don’t think they did. In hindsight that sounds good.
backthepack
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Bruener’s going to be a player tho. He’s really good.
Lol @everyone questioning his speed. He’s ran a low 4.6 40. You see he’s fast on his hudl tho
Lol @everyone questioning his speed. He’s ran a low 4.6 40. You see he’s fast on his hudl tho
CallMeBigErn
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Thanks for remembering the times I was right Fremonttroll. The only ILB recruits I can remember excited about under this staff were Kaho and Heimuli, while I was at least optimistic if not excited about Calvert and Tupetala (sp?).
I really dont get it with this guy. Good prospects are exceptional for their position in at least one area. At ILB it either needs to be pure speed/explosiveness (BBK, Marquis Cooper, Heimuli) or an exceptional combo of size and speed (Mason Foster, Donald Butler). Size alone is worthless (see Sirmon, Manu).
Small guys with speed have a way better chance of working out than mediocre athletes that are already big enough. That's the category this guy fits. I'm amazed the staff doesn't get this.
Pretty sure that’s a convenient narrative for why we took a shitty player like Manu. It maybe played a small role, but I really think they simply misevaluated Manu it couldn’t get someone who was better. IIRC, he committed pretty early before his senior year.
FremontTroll
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I stand with chuck then. FTG.
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I think it was this. That 2015 class was really a struggle they couldn’t beat out any real competition.
Nothingburger
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That's not Coop, but...
As a former thrower myself, I think the throws are one of the great inefficiencies in American sports. Explosive, agile behemoths that football has NEVER, to my extensive knowledge, mined for athletes. I think Arizona had a monster of a hammer thrower who was an immediate starter at OT...
Suffice it to say, I love that Coop is a Texas state champion in discus as a junior. Love it.
Who was that? They had De Beer who also threw discus but he was recruited for football and still took awhile to develop. He was also massively huge.
Just looked it up, yeah that's who I meant. Apparently he recruited himself, he wanted to play football, and Arizona let him walk on while on a scholarship for discus. I was wrong about immediate starter, but apparently a two year starter and he got some NFL tire kicking and is in the XFL.
I'm pretty sure this isn't allowed anymore, you can't be on scholarship on a "lesser sport" and walk on to a football team (or basketball I think). This is to stop teams from stashing kids on other sports and allowing them to play football. If you want to walk on to the football team, you either have to get put on a football scholarship or give up your existing scholarship to the track team.