October recruiting thread

[NSECTA4]

first team all name guy offered

Wilnerson Telemaque

 

[Carm]

Nuku Mafi and Semisi Tonga committed to Okie St yesterday, They looked to have been our OL Plan Bs - we had scheduled them for visits and kept pushing the visits back

 

[Tsakoi]

Nuku Mafi and Semisi Tonga committed to Okie St yesterday, They looked to have been our OL Plan Bs - we had scheduled them for visits and kept pushing the visits back

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It's possible that we are basically full and that players like Brix and Benning are the only takes left out there on our board that we would make room for. The absence of any movement towards these plan B style guys seems to imply that we are happy with what we have and just waiting on an answer from 1 or 2 '24 guys.

Just my opinion. I don't have any inside info.

My theory is we have 1 spot on the OL available and it's only for Brix and if he doesn't come we can fish in the transfer portal or roll it to 25'.

Possibly the same situation with Benning, but we are anything but light in the DB room.

 

[Carm]

Supposedly we are also talking with Andrew Dennis about a possible OV. He is committed to Michigan St currently. He visited Purdue a week ago.

 

[Jim14510]

Supposedly we are also talking with Andrew Dennis about a possible OV. He is committed to Michigan St currently. He visited Purdue a week ago.

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Is oline the best position to be heavy in high school recruits? You know in a year if they're going to be any good right? You go heavy on oline, light on WR's and RB's. Portal lineman out WR/RB in as needed.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Is oline the best position to be heavy in high school recruits? You know in a year if they're going to be any good right? You go heavy on oline, light on WR's and RB's. Portal lineman out WR/RB in as needed.

Definitely seems like the availability of good OL in the portal and their price makes it the position you want to hit out of high school. East to sell skill guys on touches and opportunities.

 

[Seaofred92]

Is oline the best position to be heavy in high school recruits? You know in a year if they're going to be any good right? You go heavy on oline, light on WR's and RB's. Portal lineman out WR/RB in as needed.

Yes. This is the correct take

 

[Jim14510]

Yes. This is the correct take

QB somewhere in between. Ideally you get them from high school. Harder to find in the portal than WR/RB but easier than lineman.

 

[Carm]

Is oline the best position to be heavy in high school recruits? You know in a year if they're going to be any good right? You go heavy on oline, light on WR's and RB's. Portal lineman out WR/RB in as needed.

Portal OL typically not very good; hard to project HS kids also but as you say, that means you need numbers.

You really can't count on getting great WRs or RBs from the portal either, though. There are definitely more of them, and more that were highly rated in HS. Highly rated HS WRs that end up in the portal, though, are usually misevaluated guys out of HS. They get to P5 where everyone is as fast as them and they can't cut it. Plus, you take a lot of portal guys you are also likely importing team culture problem makers.

Portal talent levels will be also dropping going forward because the extra "covid" year of guys competing for roster spots will be gone.

I think it would be a big mistake to count on the portal for filling a recuring portion of WR and RB rooms myself. That could have made sense during the Covid bubble but it won't now. Actually, have you ever seen a team that relies on a significant number of transfers do well for more than one year? I can't think of one myself.

I think the best way to go (especially from the culture perspective) is to take freshman classes on the large side across the board and have the self-discipline to process out guys who aren't in the rotation by true year 3. Then use the portal only for a VERY few guys to cover positions where you missed significantly in some part of the roster distribution, go after the top portal guys that fit those spot with your resources.

 

[Carm]

QB somewhere in between. Ideally you get them from high school. Harder to find in the portal than WR/RB but easier than lineman.

QB quality is higher with transfers in general, but even with QBs, there are only a few top transfers that are moving for money a more exposure. Lots of other teams do get starters through the portal, but I would say they tend to be average typically in the P5 scheme of things. That's probably okay if you have a good roster everywhere else.

 

[Carm]

I kind of like the OL strategy they have started using - taking a large percentage of the PWOs for the OL. They haven't proved it works yet (not enough time) but it sounds like we might get 1-2 rotation contributors out of the group to supplement the scholarship kids. You hear mention of Parrott and Seagren from time to time.

 

[Carm]

 

[Carm]

Greg Smith on Barta

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

Greg Smith on Barta

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Not surprising

 

[Carm]

Not surprising

this is kind of funny

 

[Baron Winnebago]

this is kind of funny

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Happens every recruiting cycle.

Either
1. Lol why did that school take that trash kid
2. We offer that trash kid
3. Trash kid flips and is good


Or

1. So and so isn't worth an offer
2. A better team offers
3. So and so commits to better team
4. Our staff dropped the ball

 

[DuckSker]

Benning and/or Amare Sanders come on down!

Would like to swap out Jake Peters for an upgrade as well

 

[DuckSker]

OL commits as of now… Tuamua and Davidson haven’t played a snap of football this year due to injury. Peters is 6’2 250 if lucky. Get to work Donny

 

[Carm]

Happens every recruiting cycle.

Either
1. Lol why did that school take that trash kid
2. We offer that trash kid
3. Trash kid flips and is good


Or

1. So and so isn't worth an offer
2. A better team offers
3. So and so commits to better team
4. Our staff dropped the ball

The Kansas St poster who provides the slam dunk proof of your theory:

 

[Seaofred92]

how many freaking OL are these guys taking?