How was Cullen not fast enough to play CB?

Wrong former Michigan member of the secondary who transferred to Pitt to continue playing for the worst secondary coach in the country.

It would have to be Adam Braitwith (sp?) be default.  I don't know enough of the guy so I'm also going to say Gibson.

Not meant as snark, but I don't understand how a guy who is so slow that he is physically incapable of playing the position in college could be rated as a four-star at that position by the recruiting sites. It doesn't matter how good of "ball skills" you have if you lack the necessary baseline physical qualities for the position. 

I guess it was a known issue then. I didn't remember that from his recruiting.

CC lacked the speed to play corner and apparently lacked the toughness or desire to compete that the new regime requires.  I hate to see a 4* CB and the only Top 100 and U.S. Army representative from that class (I think) leave, but he seemed to have an "entitlement" mentality.  Better to get rid of bad apples sooner rather than later.  His comments on the way out prevent me from rooting for him...

The only problem with that is, safeties are better tacklers than corners. If he wasn't good enough at tackling for corner, he sure wouldn't be good enough for safety.

We were trying to be a speed team, but too many of the secondary Hello posts were listing as a negative "not great speed".

There's always a chance.  But following coaches is nothing new.  They committed to play for Gibson, Magee, and Dews, all of whom are at Pitt now.  In addition, Vinopal is only a little over an hour from home, and Cullen Christian is back at home - with one of his best friends from high school, Brandon Ifill.

Didn't I read somewhere that he blamed the old coaches for having it out for him?

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faster" to play the position. If it was "must be faster", how was he so highly rated? With this fisking, he couldn't tackle and couldn't run fast, how does that translate into an elite recruit?

the PD reporter, is a huge Buckeye homer, as even tosu fans acknowledge.  I just emailed him to call him on the omission.  don't let those guys get away with that stuff!

Well, he had offers from lots of places, and he was the #3 or #6 cornerback, depending on whether you trust Rivals or Scout more.

So I don't really blame the coaches too much for this offer.

http://mgoblog.com/content/hello-cullen-christian

The coaching staff saw the same stuff in him that all of the recruiting services saw, as well as the coaches of a bunch of top-flight teams (including Ohio State*).

Besides, even if there were some red flags, I'm not sure how much you can blame the coaches for taking a 'flyer' on a consensus 4-star corner when we desperately, desparately, DESPARATELY needed corners.

*Okay, maybe this is the wrong day to rely on the judgment of Ohio State coaches... but you get my drift.

are you that fucking stupid?  He was the #3 overall CB by Scout in 2010.   He's still only a sophmore.  

 http://michigan.scout.com/a.z?s=162&p=8&c=1&nid=3671306

On a good defense (i.e., one with competent safety play), you can get by with corners that aren't blazing fast.  The primary responsbility of a corner is to disrupt short/medium throws.  On deep balls, the free safety is supposed to come over and provide help.  If the offense goes four wide, the corner may not have that safety help, but at the same time, the pass protection is more limited there so the QB generally will not go deep that often.  

Andre Weathers, who started opposite Woodson in '97, was not that fast, but he was quick and had the size to hold his own on the line (and against the run).  He had an excellent season.

As for Christian's tackling ability, it shouldn't be surprising that he was poor in that area as a freshman.  Tackling isn't an innate ability.  It usually has to be developed by the staff.