Asiantii Woulard, QB, Winter Park HS, Winter Park, FL(2013)

[bull-71]

Any news? Has he graduated? Is he still eligible to play? Or has he just ascended corporeally into the ether?

I heard he was dating TEO's ex girlfriend

[JTrue]

Any news? Has he graduated? Is he still eligible to play? Or has he just ascended corporeally into the ether?

He just jumped straight to the draft. He's the next QB off the board tonight.

[Lmshaffe]

This thread just won't die

[DELdaBull]

I believe he has prom next. At least I think that is close.

[bulls phanatic]

who cares. Lets move on

[2000bull]

wait, who? isn't this the realignment thread?

[Rizman]

This is a thread about players we did not get because they wanted something else.

[charsibb]

If they wanted something else, then they must have sucked, therefore we did not want them anyway.

[GaUSFBull]

If they wanted something else, then they must have sucked, therefore we did not want them anyway.

 

Love me some TBP logic.  

[Reliable Source]

 

 

The assumption that USF and Western Kentucky are swimming in completely different talent pools...is a bad assumption. Especially when Willie Taggart was at Western Kentucky. He was aiming high when he was there, and he got some pretty good recruits too.

 

It doesn't take more than a google search to see where these guys rate according to services like ESPN and Rivals and whatnot. James Mauro was a three star guy with a 75 rating in 2011. Matt Floyd was a three star guys that had a 76 rating in 2011 and they had USF as the only school offering him a scholarship, just as ESPN had Western Kentucky the only school offering James Mauro a scholarship.

 

The star ratings and whatnot aren't great predictors but that alone should tell you that USF fans have no room whatsoever to be all high and mighty about a Western Kentucky recruit not being desirable because we should be recruiting better than Western Kentucky.

 

The difference between the two is Floyd continually disappoints, as we've seen with his not even being able to correctly handle snaps, and Mauro was Taggart's guy while Floyd never was. Taggart regularly recruited from Florida while at Western Kentucky. He pilfered the QB that will start this year under Bobby Petrino, Brandon Doughty, from the Miami area. He recruited Greg Windham the QB of King High School right here in Tampa. I'm sure he knew who Matt Floyd was. He just wasn't interested.

 

Two more guys to pay attention to would be Jamil Golden and Austin Appleby. Neither would be a guy that could play right away, of course.

 

Appleby committed to Purdue as part of the 2012 class but the new coach there Darrell Hazell did not recruit Appleby. His big fish is Danny Etling who was on Elite 11 with Asiantii Woulard if you recall, and he convinced Etling to come to school early so he could jump right into the starting competition, which he's done. In fact onlookers think the coaches are already putting Etling ahead of Appleby. I think the writing on the wall is pretty obvious.

 

Jamil Golden was offered by Taggart at Western Kentucky and ESPN had him rated pretty high. I believe he ended up walking on at Mississippi State. Thing is, let's say Steven Bench chooses to come to Mississippi State. That could take a little bit of wind out of Golden's sails. Could see him try and transfer after that.

Agreed. 3-4 years ago, I'd have scoffed at us and WKU fighting over the same QB. These days...

 

Disagree. Floyd, who parrot is comparing, wasn't the intended starter, Woulard was. That's the caliber of QB we would expect out of high school.

 

I don't know if I would hold woulard out as the standard. Not being all sour grapeish and stuff, but he had a disaster of a HS career. Had only 3 legitimate somewhat legitimate  offers ( UCLA, USF and maybe, maybe, maybe Clemson). Heck the dude went on an OV to UK and still never got an offer, FROM KENTUCKY!!! I wouldn't hang my hat on him based on a no contact competition where he did really well. I'd rather have another Matt Groethe any day than that nightmare and his dad. One get's hit and grins at the defender the other gets tagged and limps off to the lockerroom. I'll bet a Benjamin he never plays 100 plays at UCLA.