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just b/c someone doesn't agree with the main point of the OP of a thread, doesn't mean they missed the point
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I think this is a big fault of hendry, but he's certainly not alone in letting his manager have some input. It was just a couple years ago that DD acquired Neifi b/c Leyland asked him to. But in Hendry's case, he seems to give too much power to his managers, both Lou and Dusty. Part of my problem with Hendry doing this is neither Lou nor Dusty were wild about playing young guys, even when the rosters were primarily veterans. I think the GM and manager need to be on the same page with regard to how much time the kids are going to have to establish themselves. Pie should have had more time last year. And the way Hendry talked about him in the offseason, it seemed like he was going to get it. But 4 games of suck and he's yanked. That's a problem of communication, imo. It's also a problem of Hendry letting his manager run the store a little more than he should. Ultimately, it should be Hendry that controls, but I don't think he wants that responsibility. He wants to let the manager make those decisions. But if they aren't on the same page, you end up wasting young, cheap years b/c the players didn't get a chance at the ML level and now they're out of options (or whatever).
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Nice to see people are still jumping at the chance to kick him around. Good luck, Murt. -
Te'o and then Chris Martin commits. ND already has two 5-star verbals for 2010 (and a 4-star WR). Good day.
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If it wasnt for Tate Forcier then it would be funny. I havent seen a offense with 2 qb sets yet. It was a bigger pickup for PSU than a loss for UM because of the depth reason. Michigan has depth at QB? Forcier and a pile of crap doesn't really equate to depth imo. How many 4 star QB recruits in one class is necessary, thats what im saying. No they dont have depth outside of this class and Steven Threet. They could of used Newsome but it wasnt a big huge blow. From what i understand without Newsome PSU would be a really bad position worse than UM, maybe not Sheridan bad but bad. Necessary? Depends on the situation. But UM has 1 now, right? It's not like they had a stud QB (or even a couple really good QBs) on the roster and then had 3-4 commits. They have a 4-star signed today and a bunch of guys that didn't look so good last year. If I'm Michigan, I'd want as many quality QBs signed today as possible (which is likely going to be 2, at most).
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If it wasnt for Tate Forcier then it would be funny. I havent seen a offense with 2 qb sets yet. It was a bigger pickup for PSU than a loss for UM because of the depth reason. Michigan has depth at QB? Forcier and a pile of crap doesn't really equate to depth imo.
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27 recruits. When your rankings are comprised solely of total number of points, you can rank high even if you have almost exclusively 3 stars. Also how teams like S Carolina and UNC are top 10 or close. 29 commits. Do they even have enough room for all those players (Alabama signed more than they could take last year, as I recall).
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Te'o makes it a bit better? One of the best players in the country and likely a starting LB for ND as a freshman. You might be understating it a tad. And there were some misses for ND, but there's quality if not quantity. Would have been nice to land a couple more DL and one or both of those safeties, but there's a lot of really good talent in this class.
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Didn't even visit ND and a lot of WRs ahead of him on the depth chart. Good get for UCLA.
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I just hope they lose Starling too (I'll trade Moore for Starling). Both are going to USC. But I'd want Te'o of the three. I did too. And Te'o will be ND's starting Mike LB next year, I imagine. But pulling one of those 2 safeties, esp Starling, would have been huge too.
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apparently Starling's going to SC. Lose 2 LBs, get 2 Safeties. Whatever.
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I just hope they lose Starling too (I'll trade Moore for Starling).
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Any word on Starling?
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Watched that live. Love a kid that wears a blue & gold lei on stage but doesn't make a big production taking it off and putting on another team's colors.
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It's sad when you consider "optimistic" to be "keeping the verbal commits we had coming in." I hate signing day.
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Last minute? Last minute for him was over 2 hours ago. Kids that can't make up their minds at this point concern me. The process at Lincoln is one of complete secrecy. I went to school there, and you couldn't get a peep out of any of the players or coaches if you had their mothers at gunpoint. And I wouldn't worry about Jawanza. He's a pretty smart kid from all accounts. I'm not sure what your point is. He could have faxed his LOI almost 2 and half hours ago. Does he have a press conference scheduled for today or something? Yes. All the Lincoln kids have a signing ceremony at noon. The coaches want max exposure for everyone, and don't want any one player to outshine the rest up to the point of signing. I hadn't seen that anywhere. I kept hearing he was just undecided.
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Last minute? Last minute for him was over 2 hours ago. Kids that can't make up their minds at this point concern me. The process at Lincoln is one of complete secrecy. I went to school there, and you couldn't get a peep out of any of the players or coaches if you had their mothers at gunpoint. And I wouldn't worry about Jawanza. He's a pretty smart kid from all accounts. I'm not sure what your point is. He could have faxed his LOI almost 2 and half hours ago. Does he have a press conference scheduled for today or something?
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Last minute? Last minute for him was over 2 hours ago. Kids that can't make up their minds at this point concern me.
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Assuming this is true, the fact that Hendry allowed Lou to influence his decisions so much isn't a fault of Hendry? You're the GM. If your manager wants you to get rid of some players, but you disagree, get the manager in line or fire him. You don't get to hide behind the manager.
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Tracer Bullet replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Good thing we don't have any albatross contracts that are going to suck up tons of cash over the next several years.
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i love how people make that "thrown out at 2nd base on a walk" thing into some completely idiotic move. didn't he just overslide the bag or something? oversliding the bag isn't idiotic? Because it was a 3-2 count with 2 outs there is no need to slide because 1. The batter makes an out either a ball in play or K, inning over 2. The batter walks, he moves to second and even if their is a throw that beats him he is still safe 3. The batter fouls off a pitch, he goes back to first 4. The batter gets a hit, in which case sliding into second is completely idiotic because he could potentially advance to 3B or even score if he stays on his feet and sees where the ball is going Actually, Cedeno made the 2nd out. But regardless, many guys slide into 2nd (or 3rd) even when they don't have to. It's the fastest way to get to the base and (usually) not go past it. Still isn't idiotic. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200704200.shtml
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i love how people make that "thrown out at 2nd base on a walk" thing into some completely idiotic move. didn't he just overslide the bag or something? Yes, he was stealing 2nd on a 3-2 pitch and overslid the bag. If everyone that ever overslid a bag got as much [expletive] as Cedeno, we'd all be surfing on feces. But whatever.
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I believe so, but I'm always surprised by things that many people say (ahem, Kevin Towers)... so I'm not really confident on what the rules are. Towers can say whatever he wants about Peavy. It's his player. I'm pretty sure he's referring to comments Towers has made about other team's players in the past.
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Bruce piling on Cedeno too? Always love when teams/media taking parting shots at guys that have been shipped out.
