USC wide receiver Nelson Agholor’s made two preseason first-team All-American teams (Sporting News, Phil Steele) and will probably be on more before the season starts. He certainly has the potential. But these evaluations seem to be made more on what-could-be this season than what happened last year.
Agholor’s admitted he needs to be more consistent. Last year, he dropped too many passes or too often complained to referees about pass interference on unsuccessful plays. Those areas need to change if he is to make post-season All-American teams. (Photos by Beverly Pham)
I guess that’s why they call it the 2014-2015 All-American team – cuz it’s based on how they are expected to perform during the upcoming season and not last year.
Pre-season all american can only be based on last years performance. By your logic no one can be an all american because 2014-15 has not happened yet.
Ted, you make a very compelling argument.
If Scott is surprised with Agholor’s preseason acclaim, so am I. Maybe I’m just jaded by the sophomore year accomplishments of his two predecessors at #1 USC WR.
I have liked Agholor from the moment I saw his high character in his TV commitment to USC. May he exceed every expectation!
Pre-season rankings are not based on previous years – it is an expected outcome for the upcoming year. Sure the player’s past performance is factored in, but the award is for the the upcoming year. There have been incoming freshman on pre-season All-American lists and they have no previous college experience.
Up coming years projections that is based on past performance! Namely the year before…
Instead of stating what Agholor did NOT do last year,how about mentioning some facts.. Wolf said based off his potential.. What were his numbers last year? Wolf said he dropped to many balls.. How many balls did he drop?
Sounds like more complaining that the kids is on the All American team..
Nelson is going to make WolfPutz look like a fool with those comments. Then again WolfPutz is already a fool.
Hope he lives up to the hype as a receiver and returner.
Even though Agholor could be an All-American returner, my guess is Sark will have him focus on receiver and not risk injuries. We have many capable returners (Farmer, Mitchell, Jackson, Cravens…) but only one true start receiver returning. Plus throwing Jackson in on special teams is a nice bone for him.
Could not agree more, but I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t unfold that way.
Staying healthy is my first concern
Nelson Agholor is a good football player.
Scott Wolf is a great blogger.
Juan Carlos is excellent at pointing out the obvious, and gootroy22 is an awesome liar.
Thank you. You are nice.
No.
Golly-Nerd is a great Star Wars nerd.
Why all the star wars references?
Your pal Golly-Nerd thinks he’s Chewbacca.
Careful, the for*skin is delicate
Doan’t forget SUCCster’s, M. Lee was a 2013 preseason consensus AA and first round NFL draft lock.
From what I’ve read in your in your posts, I assume you’re a Bruin fan?
What’s a good message board that we don’t have to pay for?
“Bruin Gold” is free and has lots of solid Bruin POV’s.
Hey, go piinch yourself succa, when was the last time a ruin was AA at wide receiver? That is what I thought, you donl’t know and it was last century.
OK, so what’s your point?
Ruins have had marginal talent at WR or perhaps it’s been more of a QB issue
True they haven’t had a NFL caliber quarterback since Matt Moore transferred to Oregon State.
Don’t rag on things when you represent something that is inferior to the item you are ragging on. It is called respect.
Bucket goes all the way back to the leather helmet era, and can’t seem to recall one
Hey, go piinch yourself succa, when was the last time a ruin was AA at wide receiver? That is what I thought, you donl’t know and it was last century.
Thanks.
Great, can you take up residence over there
That’s pretty cool how you say “doan’t”
That’s pretty cool how you say “doan’t”