Nice article. He always cared a lot for his players that's for sure and he has certainly proven himself to be a great RB coach.

and good recruiter. Butnot a good HC.

Then why did we go backwards with his recruits?

Love's a great talent, and Gould is an elevator. Great year for them both, too bad former Aggie coach Gary Patterson got the best of them. Love looked beat up, long year.

Doss?

We went backwards on Ws, backwards on DI wins.

oh, got it.

Gould as great recruiter is based largely on players that didn’t stick around. If he could recruit any position you would think it would be running backs and who did he leave us with? Justin Williams and Mitchell Layton. I like what Justin gave us but he wasn’t a talent beyond what we usually have had.

Tehran Thomas was a Gould product I believe.
He could be quite the RB. Did you see the Sac game, where he took a lateral or pass in the backfield, and went 90 yards out running the Sac DBs? And, then later, he runs over guys and gets extra yards. Also, after he went 90 yards outrunning the DBs, the Sac announcers say something like he is a big bruising back without exceptional speed. Umm, was he watching the game?

Tehran is last years recruit, so perhaps Gould had something to do with it but Gould was gone two months before NLI day.
Tehran is quite an athlete.

we honored all of Gould's commitments, so he may have gave a verbal commit prior to the coaching change.

He landed Josh Kelley. Would have been a stud at the FCS level. Never got a chance to shine before he transferred to UCLA when Gould got fired.

@ Davis
2015: 5 yards per carry as a true frosh (530 yds)
2016: 7 yards per carry as a soph (609 yds) (Luuga 1,077 yds- 5 yds per carry)

Was on the short side of a platoon (well, actually RB 2) with Luuga. IMO Kelley was the premium RB of the 2. I guess we'll never understand why Luuga was used more- perhaps it was purely class status.

I would like to think Kelley would have gone for 2,000 in 2016.....and who knows last year with our passing attack to balance.

One of the examples of “Gould as great recruiter is based largely on players that didn’t stick around”.

Yes, recruited well, but then kids didn't see the progress. He lost the team.

It was a trend for sure