In the NFL, Bill Belichick was the first to make a commitment to this and it worked. LBs that can play TE. WRs that can flip over to DB. Etc., etc. Last season, UCLA didn't shy away from finding a RB from among its starting LBs.
It looks like HCMM is all about recruiting football athletes who can play multiple positions. He's building horizontal depth. Even the OLs he recruits seem to have played every spot on the OL.
What got me thinking about this and posting something is that this multi-position ability thing is a complete pain in the ass for the mods of this forum. And there's so much that is situational, like a Nickel Corner or a Slot WR. HCMM seems to recruit for those situation spots.
Having done the recruiting board through 3 coaches now, figuring out position for recruiting profiles and depth charts is by far the most difficult it has ever been. Part of the difficulty is that there are a lot of cases where the position a guy is recruited to eventually play is different than the position the guy will compete for a spot at during his first couple years. They're projecting body changes with age and training into the recruiting now. It's like: "Yeah. Great hands and we recruited him as a TE. But in 2 or 3 years we expect that he'll either be a DE or play somewhere on the OL."
We try to avoid the "ATH" designation as much as possible, but it's getting more difficult to avoid.
It looks like HCMM is all about recruiting football athletes who can play multiple positions. He's building horizontal depth. Even the OLs he recruits seem to have played every spot on the OL.
What got me thinking about this and posting something is that this multi-position ability thing is a complete pain in the ass for the mods of this forum. And there's so much that is situational, like a Nickel Corner or a Slot WR. HCMM seems to recruit for those situation spots.
Having done the recruiting board through 3 coaches now, figuring out position for recruiting profiles and depth charts is by far the most difficult it has ever been. Part of the difficulty is that there are a lot of cases where the position a guy is recruited to eventually play is different than the position the guy will compete for a spot at during his first couple years. They're projecting body changes with age and training into the recruiting now. It's like: "Yeah. Great hands and we recruited him as a TE. But in 2 or 3 years we expect that he'll either be a DE or play somewhere on the OL."
We try to avoid the "ATH" designation as much as possible, but it's getting more difficult to avoid.