re: 2023 Recruiting

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Commercial/Industrial HVAC techs are impossible to find. Kid out of high school were to go into that, he would make a fortune

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I hear this drummed often w/ welders, plumbers, electricians, etc. I worked in the in electrical business during college and a little bit after. We had plumbing and HVAC in the shop too. I know that was nearly 30 years ago, but I still know some of the guys and they're not driving Mercedes and moving into the club.

Also, crawling under houses & in attics @ 25 years old is easy, 25 years later and thousands of houses later, it is no fun.

Well, that may because they are bad with money and not everyone wants a Mercedes, but you make good points about the rigors of these trades.

I helped my son's friend out of HS get an apprenticeship with my company, Cat Dealer, and he started at 19 and is now at 23 a certified field mechanic making six figures, and full benefits, and the apprentice program bought 8,000.00 of his initial tools and tool box. Had no debt because it was all paid for plus he was paid an hourly wage while training.

I see old timers all the time turning wrenches. Some still love it and others may not. However, he has been working on a degree and can transition into management should he want to. There is a huge shortage of diesel mechanics in the heavy equipment, Agriculture equipment industry.

He is building a nice 401K, and saving money for his first home that he will be buying this year with a sizable down payment. His hobby is motorcycles and he purchases classics or regular and refurbishes them and resells. Rides some and keeps them if they have opportunity to build value.

Lot's of opportunities in trades. You aren't wrong about the climbing into attics and crawl spaces, but some do it till retirement and have loved their career, and some do not, but still had a long career and built up a life and retirement.

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All rosters have a combination of prospects and depth. Ultimately there’s 22 guys that start, rotational help, plus the special teams. But that’s almost always about half the roster no matter how good your program is. There’s only so much playing and practice rep time available to guys

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This. With multiple offensive and defensive packages + the two deep you end up with about 25-30 guys on each side of the ball who are "game ready" so call that 55-60 guys.

In practice, the rest of the guys run scout team looks for those guys to get reps. Some of those scout team guys are redshirts and freshmen who need more development, some are career scout team but may get some time in particular special teams looks, you never know. With one injury a guy goes from scout team D-Line to being in the rotation (D Line notoriously needs a lot of rotation).

Either way you're for sure using the full scholarship limit with "useful" players, whether or not they are all playing on Saturday.

Keldric Faulk picked up a 5th star on Rivals

Well means he is balling out in the all star games so he is progressing very well. Good cause we need him to start come fall. We are razor thin there, razor thin.

Someone on one of the podcasts said he weighed in at 270 and was still quick as a cat.

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Keldric Faulk picked up a 5th star on Rivals

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Auburn/Yahtzee Bump!!

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They finally quit with the salmon at IHOP. Don't stir the pot.

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This might surprise people but I’m not prepare to be impress by Salmon at IHOP.

They haven’t fully updated the list yet just released new 5*s. I think I seen where he had moved up to 19 overall

Ben Aigamaua hitting Hawaii

Taking a page from Bama’s book. The Hawaii pipeline! All it’s going to take is moving his entire family, buying them a house, and getting everyone a job!