National Signing Day

by Mindless on Feb 1, 2012 4:38 PM PST

How did your college do?

Stanford seems to be getting some serious OL. Again. How about some receivers, dammit? Looks like all the fast guys are flipping. I guess they do not need any, with nine lineman on the field.

I wonder though if a more draft like system would be better. Of course with colleges being of such a different quality that may be unfair to recruits. Any way to make it work to level the playing field a bit?

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Seems like it would gets into too many issues with kids getting to pick where they go to school.

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by David Fucillo on Feb 1, 2012 5:13 PM PST reply actions

Yeah they should just do away with that

Pay them to play and forget about making them go to class. Most don’t care and are skating by on cupcake schedules and sweetheart homework deals.

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by Ougadas on Feb 2, 2012 12:00 AM PST up reply actions

Rutgers

Got 5 star DE Darius Hamilton. Syracuse got some solid players.. Im happy.

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by Collin B on Feb 1, 2012 7:43 PM PST reply actions

Stanford did well

Lots of O-Line like you say.

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by FearTheTree on Feb 1, 2012 8:24 PM PST reply actions

Some highly rated O-Line recruits

Weren’t 3 of them rated Top 5 in the nation for their respective positions? NICE

Don’t forget the literal second coming of Barry Sanders (Jr.)! I Loved watching his dad play, and hope that he brings some of that same production to Stanford (except when they play Utah).

by kailuakid9er on Feb 2, 2012 12:21 PM PST up reply actions

Universtity of Texas

always a strong class! looking forward to the young QB from Scottsdale, and glad to see the big middle finger thrown at LSU by the DL Torshiro Davis. another squad built on defense, a proud longhorn’s dream come true.

look out for Jonathan Gray- a running back w/ 4.4 speed and a relentless motor. he’ll be the next great UT RB…to follow the footsteps of many great footmen!

by t p on Feb 2, 2012 3:58 AM PST reply actions

bbbbbooooooo

by KGboomer on Feb 2, 2012 8:14 PM PST up reply actions

haha

glad you chimed in. i was worried that there’d be nobody to hate on the longhorns now that drew’s gone….

by t p on Feb 3, 2012 10:42 AM PST up reply actions

UCLA

Did pretty well surprisingly. I wasn’t expecting it out of Jim Mora Jr. (Our old friend) and he more than exceeded expectations… Now let’s see if he can coach them.

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by shahbazi3 on Feb 2, 2012 4:10 AM PST reply actions

WVU

Got a top 150 QB to replace Geno Smith (Baller btw) when he leaves, and picked up a couple really good receivers. And Scouts had the WVU snagging the 45th CB and 6th MLB.

Good day for Holgorsen and the ’neers. This jump to the Big 12 is only gonna help, too.

Go Mountaineers.

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by Blank x2 on Feb 2, 2012 8:24 AM PST via mobile reply actions

Utah

Really excited! The best recruiting class (Top 30 class on paper) the Utes have ever had.

They got a ton, literally 2000+ lbs, of O-Line (9 commits). One of them measures 6’7" 375lbs!?!

We got another good JC RB to pair with Juan Blanco Quatro (John White IV) to run behind that line.

We got some DB’s to help defend all the crazy-good QB play I’m expecting again in the PAC-12.

Most importantly we got a couple good QB recruits. One of which was in the Elite 11 QB camp (Travis Wilson). Lord knows we could’ve used them last year after Jordan Wynn went down. We had to start a guy who was a D-III transfer (YES Division 1-2-3) the bulk of the season.

Ahhhhh! The unbridled optimism of signing day.

GO UTES!

by kailuakid9er on Feb 2, 2012 12:12 PM PST reply actions