If we can get TCF, I think we have two more after that and we can still finish strong and stay in the top 20 for this class, which is AMAZING for this program, considering we don't process, don't oversign, and don't cheat.
2017 Recruiting Class Thread
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I think you take a look at the situation, and only one of the incoming linebackers should be shirted. Just too thin, and you need to learn from last year. You simply cannot red light all three of these kids, if you know what can happen, based on last year.
Hopefully we'll have more answers after signing day and the BW game. We look so deep at DE it's just hard for me to imagine Toney is going to have a chance to make an impact for at least two more years, and a limited one even then, due to his size. WLB would seem a good fit for him, but I'm no coach and I don't go to practices. Reading the practice reports, he sounds like a guy you'd want to get on the field somewhere.
Faison - Walden very much impressed me with his highlights. I expect to see him wearing a #11 at some point. Rivers looks solid as well. Franklin looks like a SLB.
Thomas was moved to LB mid-season. I believe that he only saw the field on special teams.
Yep, we here have been talking about Toney moving to LB for over a year, but so far he's a DE.
Franklin looks a legit 6'2"+ with a big frame that will develop great in the S&C program and hopefully put him on the field in 2018.
If Faison-Walden impresses this spring at OLB, Cooper could possibly redshirt in 2017 and compete inside for 2018-2019, as it's unlikely he gets playing time inside in 2017 with Cabinda and Smith returning. Cooper doesn't look to have OLB speed and coverage ability, but if CJF ends up getting 4 LB's for 2017 Cooper probably plays out his career as we'll have lots of competition in 2018 so his odds of playing may not be better in 2018.....
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I think Gunsie actually knows right now. He just hasn't had the chance to brief Franklin and the defensive coaches yet. He's been too busy advising Cael and the wrestling squad.
Some people are just overly sensitive!
I guess he missed the "3" winks.
And I really felt we had a connection.
Alabama had a DB decommit yesterday, but Reddit bama fans seem to think they are still full at DB fwiw.
DetectiveWood 3 points 14 hours ago
Not a DB prospect. I think we are done at DB. We have a list of six that we want and need to make room for. Solomon, Mathis, Ruggs, Devonte Smith, Parks, and Labryan Ray.
Ive screwed some spelling up. Solomon is gonna be iffy but we favor the rest.
BaughSoHarUniversity 1 point 12 hours ago
No room for Tariq Castro-Fields?
DetectiveWood 3 points 14 hours ago
Not a DB prospect. I think we are done at DB. We have a list of six that we want and need to make room for. Solomon, Mathis, Ruggs, Devonte Smith, Parks, and Labryan Ray.
Ive screwed some spelling up. Solomon is gonna be iffy but we favor the rest.
BaughSoHarUniversity 1 point 12 hours ago
No room for Tariq Castro-Fields?
- DetectiveWood 2 points 11 hours ago
Nah, he's Penn state bound.- BaughSoHarUniversity 1 point 11 hours ago
Sweet.
- BaughSoHarUniversity 1 point 11 hours ago
Not definitive, but radio silence from Josh Paschal's twitter account re PSU official visit. Calls himself a UK verbal on his twitter profile, only activity is retweeting UK stuff this month.
Haven't seen or read anything to make you optimistic at this point.
Haven't seen or read anything to make you optimistic at this point.
He always was a long shot, given his brother's association there. I imagine that if younger brother decommitted and went somewhere else that older brother's position would be very uncomfortable.
Not much you can do. Pretty crappy if true this late in the game. Nobody really valid has backed this yet either.
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Sorry; this is too cryptic for my simple mind.
Which recruit (a commit or is it an uncommitted prospect) are we talking about here?
The guru's are all calling it now. The guys that are the real insiders. He gone.
Very tough loss. Might be the hardest loss of the recruiting season, since we're so thin at linebacker and now down to only 2 scholarship linebackers in this class. Safe to say that it will be very, very hard to redshirt both of our incoming linebackers right now. Franklin still COULD redshirt them, but we are now as thin as could possibly be.
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