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Most notable updates from 'wednesday recruiting'... #1) it sounds like cornelius jones might end up being a DB here. he's pretty big, 6-2, 200lbs, so i'll list him at strong safety for now. makes him even more intriguing...and he was very intriguing to me even before this. #2) it sounds like we're slipping on LB Olaniyan. So, according to Sam Webb, we've still got 4-6 scholarships available. It's possible that we're going to take more than that (not renewing 5th year seniors, assigning early enrollees to last year's class, etc.). Personally, I think that is true, and I am looking forward to RichRod busting out the snake oil. But for now, for the sake of simplicity, I will keep my predictions at 4-6. It sounds like we've got the inside track on Christian, Grimes, Beachum, and maybe Murphy. Here is a list of all the players that we SEEM to still be in on, in order of our in-ness. Like I said before, I think Rich Rod's got some under the radar snake oil stuff going on, but I'll leave that alone for now. RB - McDowell WR - Stills? DT - Beachum, Thornton DE - Murphy, Clemmings, Mackal LB - Furman, Cornelius, Nealy (new offer), Olaniyan? S - Knight, Jefferson, Parker CB - Christian, Grimes, Mathis If we do indeed land the four players that we seem to have the inside track on, I would like to see us using the last two scholarships on a linebacker (Furman!?), and a safety (Knight!?). If we can land a class of those six, the complete class would look something like this: QB: Gardner SB: White FB: Hopkins WR: Robinson, Williamson WR: Miller SR: Drake SR: Dileo TE: Jackson LT: LG: C: Pace RG: RT: NT: BEACHUM DT: Talbott DE: Wilkins, Paskorz Q: Kinnard, MURPHY MLB: WLB: FURMAN SLB: Robinson SS: Jones FS: KNIGHT, Johnson CB: CHRISTIAN, Avery CB: GRIMES, Talbott If that is indeed the recruiting class we sign, then this is what I see our starting lineup looking like next year. I'm not going to list BACKUPS here, just guys that I think have a shot to play...a lot. QB: Forcier/Gardner SB: Shaw/Smith...Cox-goalline...Robinson-harvin!? FB: Moundros WR: Hemingway...Stokes/Robinson (jr. will get hurt) WR: Stonum SR: Odoms SR: Roundtree/Gallon TE: Koger LT: Dorrestein/Omameh/Lewan/Schofield LG: Schilling C: Molk RG: Omameh/Ferrara/Barnum/Washington RT: Huyge NT: Campbell/Martin DT: Martin/Van Bergen DE: Van Bergen/LaLota/Wilkins/Roh Q: Roh/Ezeh MLB: Ezeh/Fitzgerald...Bell? WLB: Mouton/Leach...FURMAN!? SLB: Jones/Hawthorne/Robinson SS: Kovacs/Williams...Emilien/Gordon...KNIGHT!? FS: Turner/Woolfolk CB: Warren CB: Woolfolk/Turner/CHRISTIAN!?
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Magnus

November 11th, 2009 at 10:00 AM ^

I don't know how many we signed back to 2008. That's probably something that we could only take an educated guess at, since I don't know if Rodriguez would ever care enough to say, "Yeah, we signed this guy, this guy, and this guy back to the 2008 class, so we have X amount of scholarships." Somebody out there might know, I guess, but I don't.

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k06em01

November 11th, 2009 at 5:58 PM ^

Most notable updates from 'wednesday recruiting'... #1) it sounds like cornelius jones might end up being a DB here. he's pretty big, 6-2, 200lbs, so i'll list him at strong safety for now. makes him even more intriguing...and he was very intriguing to me even before this. #2) it sounds like we're slipping on LB Olaniyan. So, according to Sam Webb, we've still got 4-6 scholarships available. It's possible that we're going to take more than that (not renewing 5th year seniors, assigning early enrollees to last year's class, etc.). Personally, I think that is true, and I am looking forward to RichRod busting out the snake oil. But for now, for the sake of simplicity, I will keep my predictions at 4-6. It sounds like we've got the inside track on Christian, Grimes, Beachum, and maybe Murphy. Here is a list of all the players that we SEEM to still be in on, in order of our in-ness. Like I said before, I think Rich Rod's got some under the radar snake oil stuff going on, but I'll leave that alone for now. RB - McDowell WR - Stills? DT - Beachum, Thornton DE - Murphy, Clemmings, Mackal LB - Furman, Cornelius, Nealy (new offer), Olaniyan? S - Knight, Jefferson, Parker CB - Christian, Grimes, Mathis If we do indeed land the four players that we seem to have the inside track on, I would like to see us using the last two scholarships on a linebacker (Furman!?), and a safety (Knight!?). If we can land a class of those six, the complete class would look something like this: QB: Gardner SB: White FB: Hopkins WR: Robinson, Williamson WR: Miller SR: Drake SR: Dileo TE: Jackson LT: LG: C: Pace RG: RT: NT: BEACHUM DT: Talbott DE: Wilkins, Paskorz Q: Kinnard, MURPHY MLB: WLB: FURMAN SLB: Robinson SS: Jones FS: KNIGHT, Johnson CB: CHRISTIAN, Avery CB: GRIMES, Talbott If that is indeed the recruiting class we sign, then this is what I see our starting lineup looking like next year. I'm not going to list BACKUPS here, just guys that I think have a shot to play...a lot. QB: Forcier/Gardner SB: Shaw/Smith...Cox-goalline...Robinson-harvin!? FB: Moundros WR: Hemingway...Stokes/Robinson (jr. will get hurt) WR: Stonum SR: Odoms SR: Roundtree/Gallon TE: Koger LT: Dorrestein/Omameh/Lewan/Schofield LG: Schilling C: Molk RG: Omameh/Ferrara/Barnum/Washington RT: Huyge NT: Campbell/Martin DT: Martin/Van Bergen DE: Van Bergen/LaLota/Wilkins Q: Roh MLB: Ezeh/Fitzgerald...Bell? WLB: Mouton/Leach...FURMAN!? SLB: Jones/Hawthorne/Robinson SS: Kovacs/Williams...Emilien/Gordon...KNIGHT!? FS: Turner/Woolfolk CB: Warren CB: Woolfolk/Turner/CHRISTIAN!?

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A2toGVSU

November 11th, 2009 at 6:57 PM ^

Despite losing BG, I love the idea of the huge increase in SIZE on the DL next year (as I have been saying, this is all based on the assumption Big Will is ready to be an every down player next year): NT: Currently we have Martin at about 290 lbs, Campbell will probably play around 315(?) when he gets in shape. [+25 lbs] DT: Currently, RVB at 275. If Martin moves to this position, he adds size and is more able to utilize his quickness than at NT. [+15 lbs] DE: Graham is 265. Not much here, RVB will probably slim down a bit (he bulked up to play DT)... Call this one about [+5 lbs] Q: Roh gets a year of OMGBARWISIZE, and packs on [+25 lbs] and maybe more of muscle Thats an extra 70 lbs on the DL, or the equivilant of one RR cornerback recruit. This is like having a 12th man!!! (Now back to my serious optimism) We could really use the size since it would allow the DL to occupy more blockers, keeping opposing OL from moving to the second level and allowing our smaller LBs to flow more freely and utilize their speed.

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k06em01

November 11th, 2009 at 10:03 PM ^

roh gaining 25 lbs is quite an assumption. still though... running downs: NT: Campbell DT: Martin DE: Van Bergen Q: Roh passing downs: NT: Martin DT: Van Bergen DE: Wilkins/LaLota/Roh Q: Roh/Ezeh it'll be nice to have some more depth...and size...but I wouldn't go as far as saying it's going to be be BETTER without brandon graham.

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