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http://cnati.com/college/binns-banking-on-turning-hype-into-reality-001701/
Good read. Honestly a really good writer.
Good read. Honestly a really good writer.
Good Armon Binns Article
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Binns Breakout Bearcat
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Coming-Attractions-Armon-Binns-breakout-Bearca?urn=ncaaf,240363
• Typecasting. Binns is one of those guys who so thoroughly looks the part – a 6'4"/200-pound deep threat with consistent production in one of the top passing offenses in the country – that it's hard to imagine him as an obscure two-star recruit from half a continent away. But that makes him just one of the many castoffs who personified Cincinnati's rise under Brian Kelly – in Binns' case, from a skinny, scrambly high school quarterback out of Pasadena, Calif., who would never play quarterback at the Division I level to a second-team All-Big East pick with a likely NFL future at receiver.
As reliable as he was in his breakthrough junior season, Binns also personifies the uncertainty at Cincy in the wake of Kelly's exit to Notre Dame, which threatens to relegate the program back to the oblivion from which it came. Kelly himself was such a symbol of the Bearcats' success over the last three years – including the first undefeated season, first finish(es) in the year-end polls and first outright conference championship(s) in more than 40 years – that the holdovers are left in a kind of limbo, charged with sustaining a momentum that seems to have followed their old coach to South Bend. (The Sugar Bowl massacre at the hands of Florida, after Kelly had already left the team, was the opposite of a spark to take into the offseason.) As a senior and the apparent go-to target since Mardy Gilyard's graduation, Binns is clearly one of the keys to keeping Cincinnati football on the map this fall.
• Best-case. He isn't a blazer by any means, but Binns is bigger than every cornerback he lines up against and uses his body well to position himself to outmaneuver DBs for jump balls, like a small forward boxing out for a rebound. And he has more than enough speed to get a step on man coverage after winning at the line of scrimmage:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Coming-Attractions-Armon-Binns-breakout-Bearca?urn=ncaaf,240363
• Typecasting. Binns is one of those guys who so thoroughly looks the part – a 6'4"/200-pound deep threat with consistent production in one of the top passing offenses in the country – that it's hard to imagine him as an obscure two-star recruit from half a continent away. But that makes him just one of the many castoffs who personified Cincinnati's rise under Brian Kelly – in Binns' case, from a skinny, scrambly high school quarterback out of Pasadena, Calif., who would never play quarterback at the Division I level to a second-team All-Big East pick with a likely NFL future at receiver.
As reliable as he was in his breakthrough junior season, Binns also personifies the uncertainty at Cincy in the wake of Kelly's exit to Notre Dame, which threatens to relegate the program back to the oblivion from which it came. Kelly himself was such a symbol of the Bearcats' success over the last three years – including the first undefeated season, first finish(es) in the year-end polls and first outright conference championship(s) in more than 40 years – that the holdovers are left in a kind of limbo, charged with sustaining a momentum that seems to have followed their old coach to South Bend. (The Sugar Bowl massacre at the hands of Florida, after Kelly had already left the team, was the opposite of a spark to take into the offseason.) As a senior and the apparent go-to target since Mardy Gilyard's graduation, Binns is clearly one of the keys to keeping Cincinnati football on the map this fall.
• Best-case. He isn't a blazer by any means, but Binns is bigger than every cornerback he lines up against and uses his body well to position himself to outmaneuver DBs for jump balls, like a small forward boxing out for a rebound. And he has more than enough speed to get a step on man coverage after winning at the line of scrimmage: