"Heisman" Latu turned the Trojans down too? I'm still trying to figure out why the **** you take a Heisman Trophy with you on a visit with an OLB? This guy was preferred by Fancy Clancy and he has entire staff on visit and blows them off like the trash they are come time to make a decision.
Keeping Helton and Pendergast is showing to be a horrific decision as most of us realized. Unfortunately, Lynn Swann wanted to put a band aid on a tumor and think the "cancer" would go away. Heritage Hall Aristocracy is eating more shit now and they'll have to unload a new manifesto to speak to us peasants to tell us all is well. When your DC is a coaching hack who dresses like a villain that Liam Neeson must confront in Taken on in-homes, the inability to connect seems more then realistic.
Helton and his group of trusty Support Staff members couldn't land elite players? Any surprise? There is a reason support staff members aren't supposed to be on the road (other then Gavin Morris or Hudson who left 2 years ago). They are not coaches. They aren't going to be who the players deal with day to day, they want to know who is going to coach their position and want to know how they fit into the scheme.
What a shit show this entire '18 season and '19 recruiting class is turning out to be but I can't blame the players or people directing them elsewhere. No way in hell I'm sending a kid to play for Clay Helton or Clancy Pendergast.