09-04-2013, 05:10 PM
(09-04-2013, 04:41 PM)DC link Wrote:Most other schools, including I think ND, wanted Gaffney as a FB. We got him partly because we promised he could be a RB/TB. I don't know if he has practiced at FB.
Not quite. SC wanted him as a FB. ND officially wanted him as an FB but were recruiting him as a RB, so as not to offend their other RB recruit, Cierre Wood. As it turned out, Wood (apparently) didn't have the greatest relationship with either set of Fig Thing Irish coaches, having held the view that he was much better than the first-string guy. Wood left for the 2013 draft and was rejected.