i hav't seen anything on laray smith yet this weekend. couple things to chew on
-seems like cuse leads but he didn;t commit atleast not yet. i'm pretty sure he was visiting them this weekend and they got some commits from there big weekend
-purdue has a coaching change
-tenn has a coaching change
-i dont hnk hes taking that indiana offer serious compared to others
-oregon has not offered fball wise and i doubt they will as we always thoughts
-he has track offers that are great but it seems he def wants to do both.
while the media hasn't been very pro uconn for him ina while, i wonder if we are in it still. we continue to do great things in nyc so i hold out slim hope here is guess for now. i still peg cuse as the favorite but it would be foolish to write him off 100% it seems right now.
Brent Thibodeaux (@BrentThibodeaux)
12/7/12, 2:59 PM
Cerritos CC offensive tackle Sean Rubalcava received an offer from Western Kentucky. No visit scheduled at this point. #WKU #SunBelt
Still like our chances...
yea i like them also, but the question is how much impact can he have right away. i mean his offers and metrics are not impressive enough where i sit here and think must get and starting next year but then again our Ol is that bad...any improvement is welcomed in my eyes but i wish we had some bigger fish on tap OL wise from the juco route to help us next fall asap.
for a long time i expected big things form the ladt weekend and we stuck the joint up big time. out commits had a good time but all those visits were just confirmations of them coming and building realtionships wih each other and getting parents into dorms and burton. they were locks mostly. i don't feel we put a good impression out with open kids tho and that doesn't sit well with me. i stil have this class being 25 kids imho and that means we have 7 slos open if not more. i think we can land a few more solid players but i would hate for us to be in last years position of reaching to fill late. some names to watch:
whitehead-seems to absolutely love his maimi frtip to fiu or is it fau? who cares. but if would be a dagger if he picked them over us. hes not a highly ranked or touted kid an hes not a show stopper. but he would fit a major need and thats important as we need a KR post nick williams. he clearly fits that if u have read about him or seen tape.
hush-another dean kid, he has great rankings and offers and can be a impact kid asap on the DL. hes another 1 that fits a need and he is a attractive recruit is u will.
fuchs- not sure what happened here with him but we should be on our knees trying to ge thim to storrs. hes a attactive recruit metrics wise, offers and media wise. he has playmaker ability in is future and another footprint kid. add the bball angle and he should be some 1 we desperately get on board
if we can land 2 of these 3 then i would feel better. lets say we do. thats 20 of 25 slots. now lets visist the last 5 slots. we need 2 or more OL. we are hitting the juco trail hard and it would be fair to say i see one or 2 coming in the end as we will find them eventually. which 2 i have no clue
so that leaves 3 slots. hell i would be mad if all 3 were also OL kids but anyway
dunham-there has been almost no media on him which makes me think there is a grades or something else issue wise that makes him not relevent. i recently saw sites also downgrade him star wise. so no clue whats up. bottom line is h had a cincy and memphis offer so we atleast know he can play on our level.
stevens- i'm not sure if we see him as a lb or de and that could either be why we stopped recruiting him or why he doesn't want to commit(if he thinks lb and we think de he will see if he can play lb elsewhere). but the kid is a player and comes from a fball factory hs in his state. i would like to land him and at one time we were in good shape. now hes taking OV's to azst and gast which makes me think we may be not the favorite now or not in great standing. hope i wrong.
jeune- down to purdue and uconn was th latest update we had. kid is a great recruit from rnakings, offers and metrics standpoints and nj to boot. his hs has several kids in 2014 we are after and 1 we are in on for sure who will be a top player. he makes a ton of sense to land. we should be all over him.
we seem to be offered random kids for a 4th db slot. i think its bullshit doing so. i once again will pump dave coggins. we have a great set of wr's on tap in this class and i understand how they are worth more than coggins recruiting wise. fine. but if we can look at summers and think db then we should also look at coggins this way. we have made good improvements with ct and foorptint kids this class. icing on the cake would be for this staff to wake the up and offer this kid, he bleeds blue more than our casual fans. i would take him 100 out of 100 times over a reach elsewhere. i am starting to get pissed about him not getting a offer considering how this class is shapping up. he is the perfect filler kid. not a crazy reach but not a stud. he fits the filler mold in many ways. if we dont land a fuchs or jeune then slide him into the extra wr slot this class and if we do then hes your 4th db. jesus christ get this kid on baord!
we seem to be after several tight ends still looking for 1 more. the vanderburg kid is a stud but just as we bet in the picture some big boys have. he may be a tough get to put it lightly. then we find out we offered the nyc kid recently. i say just get him on baord. he had a ruty offer so we know hes legit and hes foorptint. lets lock him up and be done at this position.
bottom line is this
18-whitehead
19-hush
20-tight end-phillips lets say
21-coggins
22-jeune
23-OL
24-OL
25-open for a OL, playmaker or suprise recruit late in the game(think gutz last year. maybe a laray type also)
this 18-25 above seems completely reasonable and would be a strong finish to the march to 25 recruits this class. it would top off our best class ever no doubt. if we can't acomplish this then its another strike on P imho as this should be doable.
edit- i know we have 18 commits right now, but it would be safe to asume that at some point 1 recruit we lose or doesn't qualify as it almos always happens so just roll with 18-25 for the purpose of the post.
