4* NJ CB Jaeden Gould crystal ball flips to PSU

There will be blowback because so much seems to be negative, but this is spot on. Gould would be committed if he was a priority and the communication about other recruits spells it out pretty clearly.

It appears he just wasn't a "goulden" in the eyes of the staff as many thought. 

Is this a "Trust the Coaches" moment? 

From what I remember, Gould was considered a safety-corner tweener and more of Don Brown type corner. Add in the knee injury and it makes sense why we may have cooled on him

Is this your standard response now? We heard you say the same thing the other day. 

How do you know that this feels like sucking donkey dick? 

It does seem that the relationship was mainly with some of the previous staff.  Sam and 24/7 have definitely been mentioning him less in general, and that usually does mean the staff has cooled - either because they like someone else more or because they think their chances have significantly dropped.  

I know you just want to bitch about stuff, so you wont give this another thought, but, if you have read between the lines in most of the recruiting reports on this very site, its been pretty strongly hinted at that Gould has wanted to be part of the class but UM hasnt wanted him to join just yet. And also that the staff, even before the shakeup with Clink, has rated some other targets higher.

Gould seems to be a solid player, so maybe this will suck donkey dick in the end, but also maybe you dont have to get all cheezed off about it yet or flip out on people being reasonable about what happened.

Don't want to brighten your BPONE but he did not seem to be a top priority of the new staff.  Maybe "cooled" is less accurate than "found others that have jumped up the board" and "new staff more willing to fight through difficult recruitments"..

I am sure he will be a quality player in college and would prefer him to choose a non-B1G location if he doesn't come to M but.....

--Sam Webb was noting that the staff thought he "also had potential at nickel or safety" as far back as mid-2020 which leads me to believe he wasn't near the top of the list as a true corner.  Maybe Gould wants assurances of a corner spot they are not yet willing to promise.

-- Gould appears to be an "early bloomer" who is also at a high-profile school which suggests that his ranking has probably already reached its Acme--only magnified imo in a year where a large chunk of kids will be under scouted and not ranked accurately due to Covid.  -- I may be showing my scars here but I clearly remember landing "potential 5-stars" Marvin Robinson and Ricardo Miller early in the 2010 cycle that seem to have similar profiles to Gould as recruits.  They both ended up (still over-ranked) in the 250 range at the end of that cycle

-- The new staff sees other corners that they clearly favor i.e. Pollard from TN (and the D. Jackson lingering hope) and also has several top prospects for safety including Tatum and Mangham that would have added benefit of building up in-state recruiting / hurting MSU. 

TLDR -- Old staff preferred "easy" recruitments which pushed him high on the early lists, he is very likely overranked at this stage (though still a very good prospect), staff has found others they like better and always thought of him a more of a tweener than a true outside corner.