Taylor McNamara Decommits

NDINOC....can I come that party!!!!!

Is there any reason to think that he wouldn't have DE-committed anyway?

1. Anae would still be (at least partially) his coach
2. Nothing about our offense since Gronk is set up for a TE. Did we even have TE last year?
3. We're up against Oklahoma for a recruit. Short of collusion between the brothers or delusion on the part of the recruit, Oklahoma is going to win every time.

When you, as a staff, win 4 games, you're gonna lose recruits. And that's why I am not LMAO about the previous regimes inability to recruit. How many ALL-PAC-12 players did we have this year? Yea, that's recruiting, or rather the lack there of. Nothing funny about that.

He and Kelley will be Sooners by Monday.

Mark

Gronkowski would have been a huge difference maker for Arizona had he stayed;

If he had been utilized fully.

To think of what Arizona might have been offensively had he ever received a pass from Foles is almost beyond comprehension.

I think we threw to a TE about three times this year. Either that position was eliminated from this year's offense altogether, or there was no one that could play that position this year and catch the ball. Either way, there was something missing.

Homework assignment. Causal relationships.

1. List our coaching staff from last year. What was our record last year? Is there a causal relationship?

2. Discuss our talent level as it pertains to recruiting. Which recruiting class currently enrolled at Arizona was widely recognized as being in the top 3 or 4 of our conference? Which Arizona players were nominated for national awards at their respective positions? Which ones were listed on the first or second team all conference team? Which coaches are responsible for recruiting the players who won or did not win the awards or receive honors? Is their a causal relationship between recruiting player achievement?

3. If we state a premise that coaches are responsible for developing talent, which players showed enough development to win national awards at their respective positions? Which ones developed enough to be listed on the first or second team all conference team? Who were the coaches responsible for developing this talent? Is there a causal relationship between the development of players and coaching?

FACT: Arizona won four games last year with a program that had been in place for 8 years. Either we don't recruit good enough talent to win or we don't develop good enough talent to win. Erring on the side of caution I'd say it's both. FACT: Arizona did not produce any national awards for individual players and only one (was it second or third?) team all pac-12 player. FACT: The best QB in school history was not good enough to be selected to the ALL-PAC12 team. FACT: based on any rational criteria, when compared to most other football programs, Arizona is not 'talented'. FACT: the only two sources of talent are recruiting and development. FACT: Our results indicate that we are not recruiting OR developing enough talent.

Are you suggesting that common sense and research will reveal that our players were selected to the all conference teams? Are there any facts that show we have players wining Thorpe awards or Heisman trophies?

Is it a ridiculous statement to suggest that our best recruiter maybe wasn't good in enough looking back at a 4 win season?

Use common sense by knowing that several of the players on this years team have been on Pac12/10 all conference teams and have been nominated for national awards in previous years.
(Foles, Criner, Wade, Golden, Washington, etc...) When a team has a bad year it is rare that players get acknowledged individually. I agree about Stoops noit being a good HC, but he did get some good players to come here and we do get players that have been offered by big schools including oklahoma. There is talent on this team.

Whiney-Ohhh
So glad to have back in your true form of posting on the Cats.
Yes Sir I was the guy pointing out RR's flaws,but your turn is coming.
BTW I spent an hour alone with RR,and we both agreed on one subject.
Everybody is worth an opportunity for REDEMPTION
Almost everybody

Lets just hope that Rodriguez ends the curse of having our top players injured every year. One reason it may appear that Arizona has so few award winners is over the last four seasons our best player has been sidelined, in most cases for the entire season.

I comfortably believe that if Gronk returned for his junior season, the year we lost to Oregon in double overtime, Arizona would have been in the Rose Bowl. Entering that season, the offense was entirely designed around the TE position to try and get Gronk upwards of 100 catches.

As has been discussed though, it doesn't look like UA will be utilizing the TE much, at least next season, and losing McNamara is not all that shocking knowing that. He'll go to one of the schools that put TE's into the NFL like Oklahoma or Notre Dame and likely live a happy life.

He will definitely miss the "scantily clad co-eds" on gameday