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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Have any of those guys gone on to be stars elsewhere?
I'm not sure what tossing up a list of camp bodies really shows.
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I know this is an endless and fruitless debate and yet...
A WR coming into the league seems like a very risky proposition, even the stars take time to shine. But if you get bad, or even lackluster instruction, when you first come in, you can develop bad habits, or the bad habits you brought with you become entrenched. The question of who shined elsewhere ignores or minimizes the fact that the first opportunity they had to shine is where their lights were turned off. Who knows if any could have shined elsewhere, there record was established here, and no other coaches were able to correct the disasters we had helped churn out.
Do you think that every LB that went to UPenn when it was known as a LB factory would have been great if they hadn't gotten coached up under Paterno? or would have been great if they went to a AA college? Coaching up the greats is a part of a winning tradition. It's what Sherm Lewis has in his repertoire, and what Hixon doesn't. Is it a surprise that a college WR coach would struggle coaching WR's at the NFL level? no more than it is that a rookie WR is amazed at the NFL CB talent level.
The point of the long list is that anyone could do what Hixon has done, which is take mid grade talent and churn out mid-grade results. What we all in the Don't Give Passes To Hixon club want is a WR coach who can take mid-grade talent and churn out positive results at least once in a 5 year span.
the equation:
College level WR Coach + College WR's <> Elite NFL Receiving corp.
(Do we have a spinning wheel icon, because I know the argument falls on deaf ears)