I read some "expert" account on Porter that he doesnt have the grit or toughness for the college game. Has all the tools but too soft.
Whats your thoughts Rembrandt?
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Whats your thoughts Rembrandt?
The accounts of that nature did not name Porter specifically. They hinted, but were not specific. It's the kind of thing that gets said by proxies for a different school. Porter missed most of last season with a shoulder injury, so I don't take this seriously. I have read a number of scouting reports on Porter that did not question his heart or his motor. The biggest question was that Porter has adequate strength but needs some strength development in a college program. Porter is a competitor. A multisport athlete who runs the 100 yard dash in track. Our coaches would not have signed Porter unless he satisfied their character expectations. It is worth mentioning that Porter verballed early to UK and never wavered.
Read that too. Could be somebody trying to diss the guy because he didn't select the school the guy was pimping for. Player was a widely recruited 4* WR. We'll find out in time.
UK safety Taj Dodson has decided to retire from college football. Dodson has a year of eligibility left, but went through senior day ceremonies. This will open up an opportunity quicker for Vito Tisdale when he is fully healthy.
Hate to see this, he's a good player that was an early contributor but never could get healthy. Good luck to him.
Surprised Ox losing weight. Bingham looks bigger. Fearby and Thrower pretty highly regarded coming in so would like to see them contributing this season. Flax at 325? That would be a good thing. Key and Robinson looks stronger. Wade to 250, we need him to pick up losing Wright.
For some odd reason a few have been suggesting transfer for the Wade boys almost from Day One. Bizarre and ridiculous.
I rightly assume every single coach/analyst at UK is hoping and helping however possible to make Keaton Wade the rush DE threat we have badly missed since Josh Allen left
Walker is gonna give our rebuilding/redeveloping O line lots of quality opposition!!! Get it done blocking & moving him, then they are good enough to do it to any D line we face in 2023. Deone is better than anybody Georgia or Bama can throw out there.
Walker is gonna give our rebuilding/redeveloping O line lots of quality opposition!!! Get it done blocking & moving him, then they are good enough to do it to any D line we face in 2023. Deone is better than anybody Georgia or Bama can throw out there.
Keaton Wade is not a defensive end. Neither was JA. Rybka is our defensive end.
I do not know if Walker is better than anyone Georgia or Bama can throw out there. But he could play for them and that is why Smart and Saban offered him a scholarship. Same for Rybka and Josaih Hayes. All of them could be playing for Georgia or Bama if they wanted because they were offered a chance.
Rybka and Hayes were not offered by Bama or UGA …and Neither is that good to play for UGA. Bama has fallen a bit
Incorrect. Both were offered by Bama and Georgia. Verified by multiple reports including ESPN and 247. You can look it up. You should have more confidence in our players.
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That was a long time ago lol and no neither one of them would play at UGA, that doesn’t mean they can’t be good here tho
If Beckwith could learn to use his size and strength he could be a tough match up for a cb
Reality is that Rybka and Hayes received scholarship offers from most SEC schools including Georgia and Bama, like I said. We have lots of players who turned down other SEC schools even including Georgia and Bama. I notice Khamari Anderson, Jaremiah Anglin, and Jayvant Brown had Bama offers. Shamar Porter and Tavion Gadson have Georgia offers. That is just the 2023 class. Something for us to be happy about.
I think your confusing an offer listed as a quote as a valid offer from a school....and assuming many things.
- Do you really think Jayvont Brown had a commitable offer to Bama that UK swept in at last second and he went with UK? same for Gadsen?
Not saying these aren't quality recruits....but they didn't get UGA/Bama offers that were commitable I'd wager.
I'm curious...how do you know who had a commitable offer and who did not? I have no idea myself and I doubt few, if any, on this site knows. I'm just glad UK's now attracting the talent they are, glad these guys mentioned are here, hope they help UK win games.
Let's put it up to expert @Rembrandt90 ....do think Gadsen and Bryant were offered by UGA and/or Bama?
Again...still good players for UK. But Hayes and Rybka were not UGA/Bama recruits either. And the same holds for players/schools that list UK as offerinb but not really. There are guys UK absolutely didn't commitable offer that list UK on rivals, etc... offer sheets.
So we can assume if a guy chooses lowly UK over powerhouse GA/Bama the guy didn't REALLY have a GA/Bama offer? Again, we don't know who has/had commitable offers.
I'd like to know if Hayes/Rybka made OVs to GA/Bama? While that's not an end all be all, if a school cared enough to bring in those guys for an OV one must assume they had more than a passing interest.
All in all, it doesn't matter. Hayes/Rybka are here and hopefully help UK win games.
I do not claim to be an expert. I simply summarize and post what is already publicly reported. It has been reported on other websites that Tavion Gadson received at least 8 SEC scholarship offers including AL. Ty Bryant reportedly received 2 SEC scholarship offers- UK and TN.
It has been reported on multiple websites that TreVonn Rybka and Josaih Hayes both received at least 8 SEC scholarship offers including AL, GA, and LSU. Hayes was a "4 star". Rybka was a "4 star" on some websites and a high "3 star" on others. Not that it matters now.
As for what is committable and what is not, I have addressed this here before. Only the coaches and players in question know, because they see the written offers. Coaches can't talk about it in public, and players almost never do. So the public doesn't know. That means nobody here knows. We have our own impressions. But as we have seen over and over, these impressions are arbitrary. All we know for sure is what has been reported independently on multiple websites.
Rybka is a very good player. Rybka will be a multiyear starter on one of the SEC's top defenses. But Hayes was actually a higher rated recruit than Rybka. Hayes was hurt last year and missed games. We will find out more about him next fall.
What seems to be missing here is a realistic concept of the excellence of UK's defense. In 2022, the top 3 statistical defenses (in terms of total defense) in the SEC were GA, UK, and AL in that order. The top 3 SEC scoring defenses were GA, AL, and UK in that order. So if an observer says defenders are good players for UK but they are not GA and AL caliber, he or she is disclosing an arbitrary bias that is actually false according to the numbers. The numbers don't lie. Even by SEC standards, UK's defense is very good. Multiyear starters on UK's defense tend to end up in NFL camps.
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Summarizing the current situation at safety. Keep in mind that in a 3-3-5 defense that uses a lot of zone coverage, the nickel back is sort of a third safety playing closer to the box. As discussed, Dodson has given up football. Jalen Geiger and Vito Tisdale are recovering from surgery and probably will not get involved in contact work this spring. Andre Stewart redshirted in 2022 and basically has no experience. Transfer Jantzen Dunn could see some action at S, but is reportedly getting a shot at CB first. January enrollee Ty Bryant was recruited as a safety.
So the returning starters Jordan Lovett and Zion Childress are the only experienced safeties in UK's spring practice.
According to the online roster, Londyn Craft is back after being injured all last year. Only a redshirt but he did have some experience at Mississippi State. Don't know his status for the fall, but that's potentially another option in reserve.
He played well at MS St. A super hard worker am anxious to see what he looks like. Frosh Stuart and Anglin two others will be interested to see at safety also. A long and talented list of safeties, no way of telling who will emerge as the 2's.
Afari mainly played nickel last year. Some oversimplified depth charts listed him as a backup Sam LB, but Afari was actually a nickel who got snaps when Brad White played 3-3-5. He wasn't really backing up Wright. The last coaching comment I heard on the subject was that he will get a spring trial at CB. That doesn't tell us a lot.
