Hello LB Dytarious Johnson

i think the key phrase/summary of your analysis is the bit about 'if someone had told me he's a 4-star i wouldn't have batted and eyelash'.  

i agree with your assessment about his speed, change of direction, and general mobility.  just out of curiousity, do you have a read on character and academics for the lad?  

You're kind of right, but is it us finding busts or is it the culture we have had for 8 years ruining good players? A friend of mine and I always get into an argument about Cass Tech. I defend them, he says everyone of their players comes out highly rated and then busts. But you look at other schools who have taken CT kids and they've done well. Joe Barksdale plays in the NFL, Dior Mathis got solid pt at Oregon this year. Even the Jets(lol) still saw an NFL player in Will Campbell. We have had bad coaching for 8 years now (RichRod himself is a good coach but his positional coaches weren't and the team was losing). We have had a lot of kids underperform their recruiting rankings, but that is going to happen when they aren't coached. This isn't like basketball or baseball where sometimes the best players could go right to the pros, that doesn't happen in football. Even the freak types like Clowney and (most-likely) Peppers need a few years of maturation and technical training. 

I just think it is hard to call kids busts when they were never put in an environment in which they could thrive. With Harbaugh I am not worried about our final class ranking because I know that he has thoroughly vetted kids, watched film, and when they get here he can coach them to their potential. He's done it at Stanford, one of the hardest places to recruit before he got them right. However, it makes a coaches job a lot easier when you pull in the Jabrill Peppers and Rashan Garys of the world.