Any info on the Recruiting Weekend?
Sorry if this is premature, but with no bowl game to look to, recruiting has become my obsession.
From the scout mainpage, apparently we have come to the top for Hankins the DT from Southeastern.
Did we make any inroads with any other recruits?
TomVH? Anybody?
December 6th, 2009 at 11:23 PM ^
Just letting you know I negged you because you posbanged yourself, which I really dont get; it seems pretty pathetic (for example, the poster formerly known as The Fifteenth did it every time he created a new thread, which was a lot).
December 6th, 2009 at 11:59 PM ^
self gratification via posbanging is not indicated on the blog...
it's likely Nick Saban...errr...the Fifteenth...err...that other guy who posted so damn much.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:14 AM ^
If you go to the original post of a thread and click the "voting details" tab, you can see who pos or negbanged the OP. Its funny when you suspect that someone might master-posbang, then click the tab and sure enough!
December 7th, 2009 at 9:51 AM ^
does nothing for your actual point total. I think that that is what some mods have said. It just makes you look like a dumbass.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:02 AM ^
here's my general take on how the rest of this recruiting season is going to pan out...
#1) there's going to be a lot of slickness involved with this new rule. no one knows enough about it to predict what's going to happen. but i think that we should all expect a lot of gray-shirt-like business going on, especially with our less heralded recruits.
#2) there are three spots left, and I think that we are going to get about five or six more commitments.
...wilson - don't ask my why, but i'm getting a ricky barnum like feeling.
...hankins/beachum/ash - i think hankins is in the bag, beachum still a strong possibility as well, ash, we'll know more soon.
...murphy/bryant - i've got the same ricky barnum like feeling with bryant. if he doesn't commit, then maybe we take both grimes and murphy.
...furman - i refuse to doubt sam webb.
...parker/knight/anderson - it seems like we're bound to get one of these guys, right? in order of likelihood there.
...grimes - he's ours. i think he's so ours that he'll come even without murphy.
#3) if we sign six of those players, then we're three over, and we've got something to deal with.
...if we get one of those safties, vinopal is probably gets a gray-shirt (or something).
...if we get one of those ends, kinnard/paskorz is probably expendable, gray-shirted, whatever.
...if we get grimes, one of our lower ranked corners...witty/talbott/avery...is probably expendable, gray-shirtable, or perhaps williamson?
#4) theres gonna be some snake oil fun and excitement along the way...but we're gonna end up with the best 25 guys we can get, that's for sure!
December 7th, 2009 at 8:02 AM ^
Just a couple of comments based on what I have read at GBW.com:
parker/knight/anderson-probably NOT going to get any of these guys and if we do get one it would almost certainly be Knight.
Witty would not get "bumped", the staff LOVES Witty and were VERY disappointed when he didn't qualify initially. The reports of his performance this past summer before he had to go back to Florida were very positive.
There are three guys who are potential academic "casualties" (read: non-qualifiers), so there may not be any need to gray shirt or "Peace/Barnes" anyone.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:46 AM ^
I agree. I can't imagine the staff telling Witty anything other than great to have you aboard. Would reflect poorly if they did. When he didn't qualify in the fall, both parties had a chance to part ways. Neither party did.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:28 AM ^
We currently have 22. From your list we then have:
23 Wilson
24 Beachum/Ash
25 Bryant/Murphy
26 Furman
27 Parker/Knight/Anderson
28 Grimes
29 Witty
That's seven more not six.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:14 AM ^
Any idea who the non-qualifiers might be? I know about Kinard and Drake... I have a guess as to the other one, but I don't want to throw the kid under a bus if it's untrue.
Witty is going to be a good player for us. I was disappointed when he didn't make it, too. I like him more than I liked Cissoko coming out of high school.
I still think we'll get Knight, but Anderson and Parker have always been long shots.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:12 AM ^
I wasn't aware they had potential qualifying issues.
I am also excited for Witty. His knee injury couldn't have come at a worse time for him in terms of his recruitment. I like to think he had high 3*/low 4* potential pre-injury. Hopefully a nice steal for us.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:01 AM ^
We have 23 commits for this year, not 22.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:32 AM ^
King Beaver of Scout may have done this inadvertently it could have been a Freudian (Schembechlerian?) slip, BUT
He wrote in reply to some Scout moron that UM is currently at "25" commits right now.
Hmmmm....sounds (as it were) like we have a couple silent commitments ala Mssrs. Grimes und Murphy?
December 7th, 2009 at 10:08 AM ^
I have heard that Grimes and Murphy are silent commits, but I just choose not to figure them into the total, since it's difficult to know for sure.