It's been a few years since "anybody" in the Big 12 was in the top 10 in recruiting, especially Baylor. Maybe they're using the Ole Miss "Bagman." Tomorrow is NSD, so all they have to do is keep the players out of jail for one more night and their good. There are rumors going around that Texas has this recruiting term called "The Silent Ten." Basically UT is convinced that they have 10 recruits who will be signing with the Horns tomorrow who have not yet publicly committed but have given assurances behind the scenes that they are UT commits. We'll see. This certainly hints at a few surprises tomorrow. Plus Strong has been known to sign recruits at the last minute. They better do something. Right now they stand at #26 in recruiting...
really surprising day for USCw and Texas. Even in Mack Brown's great recruiting era he never closed liked this...then again many people point to the fact that he loved getting verbals from juniors so he didn't have to recruit seniors as the biggest downfall of his program. In any event, awesome day for Horns' fans to be sitting #1 in Big12 recruiting after starting the day as a joke
Big Game Bob got some 'splaining to do. 24th overall and 24th by avg star per player? for a blue blood that just won the conference and made the semis? huh?
Bama #1 overall, #1 in avg star rating, #1 in 5-star commits. ho hum
UGA big finish today....#4 in avg star rating behind Bama, OSU, and USCw. impressive first class for Kirby and co
I agree RT that Kirby Smart did one hell of a job at Georgia during a limited time.
He's a "worker" and learned well under the hardest worker in college football.
Sidenote: Maybe GS can comment but I have heard for several years the Oklahoma staff is lazy
when it comes to recruiting. No excuse for Bob Stoops not bringing in better classes at Oklahoma.
He's a "worker" and learned well under the hardest worker in college football.
Sidenote: Maybe GS can comment but I have heard for several years the Oklahoma staff is lazy
when it comes to recruiting. No excuse for Bob Stoops not bringing in better classes at Oklahoma.
I don't know about lazy since I'm not on the recruiting trail with them. I did run into Mike Stoops one time on the plane coming back from a Dallas recruiting trip last year. But trying to recruit and signing players are two different things. And Oklahoma isn't exactly the flavor of the month anymore. I'm never satisfied unless OU is around the top 10. So I've been disappointed in their recruiting for most of the last 5 years or so. To me it doesn't make any difference if they are 15 or #21 like they are right now at Rivals. They are still kind of stuck in the mud, and are going to continue to get dominated by bigger teams like Clemson when they go out of conference, unless they can get back in the top 10. I honestly thought this class was going to be a total disaster a couple months ago when they were sitting at around #40. So Stoops has actually done a little better than I thought he would. If he can sign Caleb Kelly (7:30 tonight, hopefully) I'll feel much better. I think this kid could end up being another Von Miller. If they don't get him, well then it's just another blah blah year. I do get the feeling that Stoops didn't take this recruiting year quite as seriously as previous years since he only had 11 seniors on the roster last year. But next year he better make it close to a top 10 class with Baylor, TCU and Texas out recruiting them this year...
UGA missed on some OT talent. Pittman will have his work to do this year. Kirby is going to make sure he locks down the borders. Outlook is great in Athens. We also had a small class, with DRob still on the block. Offensive talent and D line was addressed in a big way. Got some great LBs already on board for 2017. Happy Dawg fan here.
Clover, first you say your not taking shots at Oklahoma, then you call Stoops soft and lazy. And that's after Stoops worked last year to make coaching changes and change his schemes on both sides of the ball and then make the Final Four without any top 10 recruiting classes.. But you obviously know Stoops better than the rest of us. The thing you should be asking yourself is why are all of these SEC programs who are in the top 10 in recruiting year after year not winning any championships? Right now all I'm seeing is the conference that Saban built. They are the programs without excuses, not OU. Are they all soft and lazy too?
Kudos to Charlie Strong and staff. The Longhorns class went from No. 33 on Tuesday afternoon to No. 11
by the end of Wednesday. Texas picked up 9 players on Wednesday (signing day). After a rough few months
the mood in Austin certainly changed on Signing Day....at least until the season starts.
by the end of Wednesday. Texas picked up 9 players on Wednesday (signing day). After a rough few months
the mood in Austin certainly changed on Signing Day....at least until the season starts.
And last time I counted the SEC had 14 schools and the Big 12 has 10. And the SEC is located in the heart of blue chip country. Schools like Kansas, KSU, TTU and probably WV are never going to pull in any 5 star recruits. Mainly because of their geographical locations. Overall the Big 12 elite schools did better in recruiting this year than I've seen in a long time. I remember the days when it was a major celebration if Baylor was able to sign one four star recruit. This year they had 9.
problem is...
#1 player in MO went to Wisconsin (and 8 of top 10 signed outside of Big12)
#1 player in TX went to Ole Miss (and 9 of top 15 went outside of Big12)
3 of top 4 players in KS went to Clemson or Wisconsin
top 5 players in IA went to SEC or Big10
4 of top 10 in OK went outside of Big12
vs
In AL the top 11 players in the state stayed in SEC
in GA 10 of top 12 (1 uncommitted) players in state stayed in SEC
in AR top 5 players stayed in SEC
in MS top 7 stayed in SEC and 13 of top 15
in LA 14 of top 17 stayed in SEC
Like I said, Kansas and KSU aren't going to get the top players in football. A 4 or 5 star player from that state isn't going to play for a basketball school who has won one game in two years, so they have to settle for 4th level Texas talent. Who knows what the wizard is doing at KSU. The fans are a bit impatient, but they know KSU has limitations. These schools will most likely start trolling for transfers in the next few months. Business as usual for them. The thing is, I'm seeing you guys compare the SEC (yeah we get it, your number 1) to just the Big 12 on here. And I'm seeing a bunch of "soft and lazy" remarks from other SEC posters. But the Big 12 had 4 top 25 recruiting classes. The same as the Big 10, the ACC + ND. and the Pac-12. All conferences with more schools. So where's the soft and lazy and the "we stole players from their states" remarks with those conferences? I don't really get the negative remarks from you guys, just because I mentioned that Baylor had their best recruiting class in a long time. And I don't even like Baylor...By the way Rolltide, you conveniently left out that OU flipped Jackson from Texas A&M and Texas flipped Fowler, a longtime LSU top 5 commit. So not every great player in Texas went to the S...E...C
well in all honesty unless a player is in contention for pitt, uab, or of course bama i don't know every player in the nation
i'm more than happy that you guys flipped SEC west kids...the less competition for bama, the better. LSU had 3 or 4 guys flip yesterday so that's a good thing for me since they went to b12 or acc schools.
can't really say i follow aTm recruiting too religiously however
btw, i don't really see why kansas or ksu would be any different than say, kentucky. and certainly nobody is jumping toward vandy anytime soon. we can all make excuses i was just pointing out that when you are allowing your best players to leave the state, that is not a good sign especially when you have limited prospects in a 200 mile radius. seems pretty fucking logical from where i sit.
obviously you are waving the B12 flag like you're the commissioner so enjoy that
