Evaluation time.

[Guest]

Okay a look towards next year. I did my research through many recruiting guru's. Mainly Rival's and Lemming, which I find too be most accurate. Remember while most people like to knock the recruiting sites, they are accurate, over the last 10 years no one has won a national championship without averageing a top 20 class over 4 years, no one. Notre Dames last 4 years averages 21, which certainly isn't too far off, certainly better then Purdue, BYU, Syarcuse, Boston, N.C. State, teams that have blown out Ty, even though he had much more talent.

I evaluated the whole team, who's returning, who's leaving. I set up a system using symbols next to players names, to show how well recruited and talented they are. Also on the other side of their name I put down how many years of eligiblity they'll have left.

* means ranked in the top 25 at their position.

+ means well recruited top 50 at position, or recruited by alot of top schools

- Means not really recruited by anyone, not much expectation.

Lets start with offense.

QB
*Quinn 2 highly touted recruit. No more excuses he's a junior now.
- Wolke 3 good Size
- bragg 4 Nice athlete, possible position change.

Departures
-Dillingham Only backup with experience, will be missed.

Running Back
*Walker 3 Potential star
*Hoskins 3 Nice athlete, would like to see him play some corner & wide receiver.

Departing RB
*Grant Nfl bound , free agent pick up.

Wide Receiver
*Stovall 1 Highly touted recruit.
*Mcknight 1 Highly touted recruit.
+ Samardizja 2 Nice player, tough phyiscial receiver.
+ Anastasio 3
+ Vaughn 3 Love this kid, 6'4 210 and runs a 4.4 40.

Departing WR
-Sheldon Will be missed.
*Holiday Should get a shot in the NFL. Boderline draft pick

Offensive Linemen

*Bonelli 2
*Harris 2 Highly touted recruit. he's a stud!
+Incarnato 4 Love his size 6'7 310, needs to quicken is speed.
*Kadous 4
*LeVoir 1 May leave for NFL, Doubt it though.
*Ryan 2
*Mattles 2
*Morton 2 Highly touted recruit.
*Raridon 2
+Santucci 2
*Stevenson 1
* Sullivan 3 Highly touted recruit, he's our center for 3 more years.

Departing OL
No one improtant.

LineBackers
-Banda 4
+Borsetti 3
*Brockington 3
*Crum 4
+Hoyte 1 Thank goodness he's coming back
-Salvador 2
*Vernaglia 4 highly touted recruit. Lots of potential.
*Mitchell 3

Departing LB
*Goolsby Both these guys are projected to be in the NFL draft, big losses
*Curry for us.

Defensive Backs
+Carney 3
-duerson 4 We all know who his Dad is
-Ferrine 4
*Jabbie 4 Highly touted recruit, Potential starter
*Lambert 4 Highly touted recruit, Potential starter
+ Ndukwe 2 Sleeper, Great hitter, deserves to play over Parrsh.
* Parrish 2 Higly touted recruit. Still waiting...
*Wooden 3 Highly touted recruit
*zbkowski 3 Highly touted recruit. He's a football player.

Departed DB
-bolen
- Ellick Notice how none were even decent recruits.
-jackson
-Campell

Defensive Line
*Adamiri 2 Highly touted recruit, waiting for him to explode
* Frome 2 Highly touted recruit
*Lietko 2 Highly touted recruit
+ Tally 4
*Laws 3 Higly touted recruit
*Landri 2 Highly touted recruit
-Tuck 1 Says he may come back if he's not a first rounder.

Departing DL
*Budinzsak
*Pauly Both will make the NFL


Kickers
-fitzpatrick 1 This gut has been a great walk on
*Price 3 Highly touted recruit

 

[Guest]

I forgot to mention, I left out some plaayers i felt were either too far down the depth chart or walk ons. And also I haven't included next years class.

 

[bmf175]

Any word on Justin Tuck I know he can stay another year if he wanted but with the firing of Willingham I know he might be pretty pissed. I hope he stays another year. Im confident next year will be better than this year.

 

[Guest]

Yeah he's up their under the D line category.

He says he'll probably come back if he's not a projected first rounder.

 

[Rip Rap]

If you're going to engage in this exercise, use a composite ranking system. Lemming, in particular, don't know jack.

 

[Guest]

Lemming uses alot of politics. But he is right about alot of guys. Take Darius Walker for instance, alot of recruiting peole said he was an average recruit, but lemming said he was an outstanding recruit.

Again I don't put to much merit into recruiting guru's, but it's been proven you can't win a national championship if these guys aren't ranking your classes in the top 20.


It just shows were bringinging in some solid talent. We've brought in alot of top 25 at their position guys. Just need the right coach to bring their talent out.

Weis is an offense expert from what everyone is saying, well we return all our starters on offense next year. The offensive line is just loaded with talent, hopefully Mcknight and Stovall can break out. I really like the talent we have on offense, even though it hasn't been any good. People say we have no speed, when Stovall was recruited everyone was saying how fast he was.

If Weis is the real deal, which I believe he is, I expect this offense to play very well next year. The talent is their.

 

[timm3117]

Down here in Georgia we knew Darius Walker was a stud. He broke about every state rushing record(Herschel Walker's records), and thats no easy thing to do in a state this rich in talent. Just to give an example Ciatrick Fason(Gators) Ronnie Brown (Auburn) and Danny Ware(Georgia) all grew up within 15 minutes of my house. Danny Ware is one of the people we need to thank, him and Thomas Brown are 2 talented RB's for UGA if it wasnt for them both being Freshman they would have recruited Darius.