By and large, Vandy fans have been praising this year's class of Commodores. But I've seen quite a few posts from Vandy people complaining about how much better this class would have been if:
• Those six recruits who jumped ship had stayed aboard.
• We'd have won eight games last season instead of two.
• We'd fired Ted Cain at the end of the season.
That last one is my personal favorite. Say what you want about his play calling, but Vandy's built such a solid class this year BECAUSE Ted Cain is on the coaching staff, not in spite of him.
The guy is a beast on the recruiting trail, especially in Atlanta.
We just signed 11 guys who were consensus three-star recruits, meaning they got three stars from all the major services. Five of those guys (Rajaan Bennett, Blake Gowder, Jonathan Krause, Grant Ramsay and Kyle Woestmann) were recruited by Ted Cain.
We signed nine guys from the state of Georgia, but eight of them from the Atlanta area (Bennett, Gowder, Krause, Woestmann, Ramsay, Andrew Bridges, Kenneth Ladler and Chris Boyd).
Ted Cain signed seven of the eight Atlanta kids — all of them but Ladler.
And in all, Cain helped land nine of our 24 recruits.
OK, I'm not always happy with the play-calling. But don't dare blame him for recruiting. We should be praising Ted Cain right now.
