Old Man Mike
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I can't help myself, but, despite the very long time period for things to develop in the 2013 class, one of my favorite areas of team-building seems not only slow, but a bit worrying due to unusual successful predation by Michigan and OSU. And, not a very good sign of the big teams letting up the pressure. Here are some thoughts to chew on:
My last issue of Blue&Gold had their master list for recruiting. It was totally inadequate but worrisome still. It listed 7 prospects [including Steve Elmer as one], and as of now at least 4 of the seven have signed elsewhere. Only Biven and Tunsil remain with Elmer from that list.
Our own master list has nine names [also including Elmer]. And four of those too are already committed elsewhere. That would mean that we would have to nearly sweep Biven, Tunsil, McGovern, and Cochran to achieve a 4 O-line class and actually sweep to achieve the ideal 5 [given only two this past year].
On our extended player-by-player listings, there is one other player listed as having an offer: McGlinchey. He is not currently signed apparently so that helps. Looking deeper into the list, to the names mentioned but without offers, we see Maurice Porter, Timothy Gardner, Derwin Gray, Brad Henson, Marcell Lazard, Darius Latham, and Sam Flor... none of which I know anything about as likely to get offers or sign.
Our team needs to sign at a minimum four solid O-Line prospects this cycle. That would give us 3+5+2+4= 14 for the year after next; we can't do much about the carved-to-the-bone 10 non-freshmen that the "2" year gives us, unless Springmann or Jones would move over. I do not think Niklas will, as that is too much dancing across positions to really find a home. He will probably stick with TE.
IF we ONLY get four this cycle, we will REALLY need to get five next time, or we will be back into the "ten only non-frosh" when Stanley and Harrell are seniors --- Kelly really does need to pay attention to long-range roster management.
This shows why I am probably prematurely concerned and at a minimum curious. Do any of you guys see things a bit more clearly? If you thought you could reasonably defend us getting four this class, who would they be? Who would be a fifth?
I realize if no one knows much yet on these things, but curiosity rages. And by the way, our master list D-Line listings are also disturbingly scarce.
My last issue of Blue&Gold had their master list for recruiting. It was totally inadequate but worrisome still. It listed 7 prospects [including Steve Elmer as one], and as of now at least 4 of the seven have signed elsewhere. Only Biven and Tunsil remain with Elmer from that list.
Our own master list has nine names [also including Elmer]. And four of those too are already committed elsewhere. That would mean that we would have to nearly sweep Biven, Tunsil, McGovern, and Cochran to achieve a 4 O-line class and actually sweep to achieve the ideal 5 [given only two this past year].
On our extended player-by-player listings, there is one other player listed as having an offer: McGlinchey. He is not currently signed apparently so that helps. Looking deeper into the list, to the names mentioned but without offers, we see Maurice Porter, Timothy Gardner, Derwin Gray, Brad Henson, Marcell Lazard, Darius Latham, and Sam Flor... none of which I know anything about as likely to get offers or sign.
Our team needs to sign at a minimum four solid O-Line prospects this cycle. That would give us 3+5+2+4= 14 for the year after next; we can't do much about the carved-to-the-bone 10 non-freshmen that the "2" year gives us, unless Springmann or Jones would move over. I do not think Niklas will, as that is too much dancing across positions to really find a home. He will probably stick with TE.
IF we ONLY get four this cycle, we will REALLY need to get five next time, or we will be back into the "ten only non-frosh" when Stanley and Harrell are seniors --- Kelly really does need to pay attention to long-range roster management.
This shows why I am probably prematurely concerned and at a minimum curious. Do any of you guys see things a bit more clearly? If you thought you could reasonably defend us getting four this class, who would they be? Who would be a fifth?
I realize if no one knows much yet on these things, but curiosity rages. And by the way, our master list D-Line listings are also disturbingly scarce.
