Jamar Taylor Says Goodbye to USF
by Ken DeCelles on May 18, 2010 9:32 PM EDT
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It's kinda funny how things work out these ways. Mike Ford and Jamar Taylor came to USF together as two highest rated players to play at USF, an inside/outside combo that was going to ease the loss of Andre Hall, and both are gone within weeks of each other. Greg Auman has reported that Taylor has left the program, this after being held out of Spring Drills due to academic issues.
via www.tampabay.com
Jamar came to USF after enrolling early at Alabama, due to being homesick/wanting to be with his new family. He scored what turned out to be the winning Touchdown during our famous 2007 win over West Virginia, and he had a fantastic game against Kansas in 2008, running for 72 tough yards and a 15 yard touchdown. Although Jamar showed these flashes of brilliance, he never really came into his own here for a couple of reasons. Coach Franks' reluctance to go with a feature back, and also being injured it seemed every year. In 2008, Taylor was hampered by an ankle injury that limited him for most of the 2nd half of the season. Last year, Jamar was sidelined for almost all of this season due to a sprained knee he injured during a preseason scrimmage in August. Although he came back for the Pitt game, he was rushed back too quickly and was limited to Special Teams duty for the rest of the season.
I liked Jamar, and thought that he could have been The Guy here at USF if things turned out a little different. Hopefully he can latch on somewhere else and he has a chance to prove himself that he can play at the next level
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I'm actually kind of happy
that Franks isn’t doing any more day-to-day coaching. Recruiting is definitely his forte and what happened at RB the last few years drives the point home. I feel like both Ford and Taylor were largely wasted.
Sure you have to also blame Greg Gregory an Mike Canales some as well. But even when there were chances to put up big numbers on the ground, no one stayed on long enough to do it (the International Bowl excepted).
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by Voodoo 5 on May 18, 2010 10:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
The RB rotation was one of the old regime's biggest criticisms
Nobody really emerged as THE back, but then again nobody ever had the chance. Who had the most say on who was carrying the ball? Leavitt, the OC or Franks?
I think it was Franks
If I recall correctly, Canales/Gregory/Smith were in control of the passing game, and Franks was in charge of the running game.
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by Ken DeCelles on May 19, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, the position coaches were in charge of who was in the game.
That’s how you ended up with tiny Lindsey Lamar struggling to get out of his own end zone on a handoff not once, but twice last year. There was a lot of shuffling at WR, too. You never saw someone have a 9 or 10-catch game because they weren’t in the game long enough.
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by Voodoo 5 on May 19, 2010 5:58 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That was the most frustrating part.
It seemed like it was predetermined how many carries/plays each skill player would see no matter how they performed that day. I guess they all stayed fresh but nobody was allowed to get into a rhythm.
And it also led to more than one situation
where someone would ask Leavitt about who was in the game on a certain play and he would say he didn’t know about it. Sometimes he was a little too disengaged from the game for my tastes.
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by Voodoo 5 on May 19, 2010 8:14 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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