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People on this board had him on their radar. But what did they know?
Palatine said:Tyler would have trouble breaking into our starting line up. He is not the most athletic guy. Temple is a much better defensive fit for him, he is a better match for their system.
Was just going to post it, too!
Getting a little ahead of ourselves there Sundance. Best in the nation?Um. He is one of the best linebackers in the nation. He would 100% start for this team.
Palatine said:Getting a little ahead of ourselves there Sundance. Best in the nation?
I would like to set the record straight on Tyler's Uconn recruitment. As someone in the know. As a young teen Tyler had always wanted to play for Florida. He was hurt his senior year so he was not heavily recruited. He went to Milford Academy. Being healthy, he played well and started to get noticed.At the time , make no mistake he wanted to go Uconn After meeting with the family and two different coaches ,Tyler's family waited and waited for Uconn 's response. In the end they said in their opinion he was not a division I player. But he was welcome to be a walk on. Temple though different and offered Tyler a scholarship, so he took it. As good as a football player he is , he is even a better young man. Uconn missed the boat on this one.
To help further clarify the record... Did he have the grades to qualify for admission to UConn (there has been much innuendo over the years on that piece). I'll respect it if you can't/don't want to respond.
Recruited football players are judged on different academic standards than other applications. If the football coaches didn't offer him a scholarship, admissions probably never went through the process of evaluating whether he was qualified for admission as a football player. This was surely a coach's error.
He is a good player. We didn't recruit him. The reasons could range from we just missed to we thought someone else was better, to linebacker wasn't a high priority that year , to academics to 50 other reasons.
And I'm saying unless you know what went on in the recruiting meetings you don't know why they missed. Sometimes you recruit to fill needs and sometimes unless you have a 4 star fall in your lap you might pass on a kid. If Pasqualoni passed on a CT kid I have to think there was a reason. Kid turned out to be real good. Good for the kid but my point is that sometimes you pass on potential for good reason.
Confident Carl said:Okay, I will try to make this simple. One of my former teammates from St. Joes's who coaches at St. Joe's said phone calls were not answered and the communications were very poor. They were basically screaming that TM was what he has turned out to be and it fell on deaf ears. They were really taken back by the lack of interest. It sounded like they were insulted that they didn't apprecate the St. Joe's staff's evaluation. So I could care less what the reason's they passed. Bottom line is they blew a great oppotunity. Tyler Matakevich is more than just a linebacker. He is a very rare breed of Leader and I wish he were a Husky!
And we still would have been 2-10 last year.