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Regardless if Cotton is going to get a free ride or not I have noo idea why the hell evans or cotton weren't asked to greyshirt instead of Mitchell. So much for those rumors that he was the number one cover corner on the coaches board huh? I don't care if he is a year younger than the rest of the guys in this class or not, I don't think he should have taken one ahead of evans or cotton. With that said if Cotton and Evans are/were asked to take a greyshirt then I really don't have a problem with this, I just would absolutely HATE to see Mitchell asked when Cotton and Evans aren't.

they didnt graduate in december like hardrick and will join the team this summer therefore will sign with the rest of the team in feb. I believe is the case.

Oh my bad...nm then.

I'd put my money on Bo any day. Carls fantastic but I just think Bo relates unbelievably well to kids/young men. When parents see how he interacts with their son he wins the parents over too.

Sounds fine to me. If he can go to Fort Scott, redshirt his first year and put on about 30 lbs or stay the same weight and get faster and get to NU w three years to play that would be a pretty good situation.

So it looks like we filled up two spots with Mobley and Bell committing today leaving one for Cooper and Owa. Its unlikely that Owa does commit but what if both of them want N how do you decide who to greyshirt or can we even accept both.

Athlete, Athletes, Athletes....if this turns out to be ture that Mobley committed I find nooo problem with the fact that he took a schollie possibly away from someone else. He's 6'4 225 lbs and runs a 4.6 and someone said he has a 39 inch verticle? With those measurables there is somewhere you can put him whether it be TE, WR, LB, DE or maybe a combo of each of those meaning a TE/WR type like Reed or a hybrid LB/DE type. We just need to keep recruiting athletes and let the coaches decide where to put them, but I really like the potential for Mobley.

I really do think that we will be a top ten team next year. You have some very valid points but I'd like to mention a few things. We lose one major contributor on the offensive line, which is the most important piece to the puzzle IMO. We will have at least two frosh come in and build depth if not contribute/start. We will have a monster juco LT who IMO will start from the very first game on. We have at least three proven TE's coming back. The only WR's we lose are Holt (wayyy underperformed his whole time here) and Brooks (I personally wish he would have had a better chance) but we have replacements that will step in nicely. Paul and Kinnie make a very solid starting two then throw in either Cooper, who I think is the third best WR on the team, Bell, Gillyelan, or possibly Enunwa and we have a very talented, EXPERIENCED group. QB play should be very much improved. I know it was one game and he will have to show me he can consistently show up in games but Lee ended the year on a high note. I also think the offseason will greatly benefit the chemistry and experience of the offense as a whole. On D we do lose perhaps the best player in college football history and he will surely be missed. We do lose Asante, O'Hanlon, Dillard, and Turner. They all were very good players and Asante and Dillard in particular were huge for the D. With that said I think Compton got a ton of very valuable experience and will have an entire off season to get bigger, stronger, faster and more knowledgable. We are bringing in Lavonte David who could play significant minutes next year and bring back a ton of talent in Fisher, Whaley, May and Martin. Dillard did have the killer instinct that I hope Compton can bring in next year but that is what the off season is for. PJ Smith got a lot of time this year not only on ST but at S as well. If need be we can always move Hagg back to safety and put Green and Gomes in the nickel and dime. This allows us to have two big smart safeties that know Bo's system and have experience in running it. The key will be is can Smith run the show in the back 7? We return two all big 12 caliber corners in Dennard and Prince and have Middleton waiting behind them. I think Dobson's off season and the leadership we have on the team will push the guys just as hard as they have been and we will see a much more athletic, faster O and a hard hitting TO creating D next year.

wow, it sure looks like tcu's offense is rolling up a ton of yards and looks exactly what carter's looking for. those 7 first half points should have him sold 100%.

I'm pretty sure there are two different schools in Plano...east and west. I don't think they played on the same team.

IMO you can never have too many athletes on offense. Just bc he's listed a RB doesnt mean we cant put him in the slot and run some screens or as a punt/kick returner. Get off EZ-E's back before we run another poster out of here that has more info than a lot of us on here. At least he brings more to the table than opinion a lot of the time.

Ok Boise State plays one hard game a year and if they get by that then they are almost a sure fire undefeated team bc the hardest teams they play are the likes of nevada and fresno. The win against OU did wonders for their program bc that made them a mainstay inside the pre season top 10-15 and bc they don't play even an average schedule they either go undefeated or have one loss and just chip their way up the polls. I keep trying to emphasize CONSISTENTLY, CONSISTENTLY, CONSISTENTLY in the top 10. Yes of course there are always going to be teams (mizzou, ku, BC, utah) that are in the top 10 every year that don't have decent recruiting classes but what keeps them there are top 25 recruiting classes year in and year out. Again, of course there are the excpeptions like TCU or West Virginia for two examples that run a system that lends to not needing the best athletes due to the system that they run. They need a dynamic playmaker here and there and it works for them. I agree a big factor is coaching, I never once said that didn't matter. But even the best coaches will fail without talent. Look at the consistent top 10 teams and who are they? USC had a down year but they've gone to a BCS bowl the last what 9 years? Florida, Texas, OU, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, Penn State for a while now. I'd like to see what their average classes are. Sure there are going to be outstanding two and three star players emerging as stars, it happens every year. Same goes for five and four stars being flops, that happens every year. But to compete on a CONSISTENT basis for a NC recruiting "stars" does matter.

When you are as successful as Mangino and Leach have been you don't need to just take a job to take one. No they didn't win a NC or even a CC but they did take traditionally middle of the pack or bottom of the pack teams and take them damn near to the top. Ya Neuheisal went to the NFL but he did get a college head coaching job. What Mangino did was pretty jerkish but I don't think it will cost him getting another head coaching job, same goes for leach. It's not like these guys are just spending all their money like they are rap stars I'm sure with the millions they've been making the past five or so years they can afford to take a year off if needed. Take Tuberville for example, he got fired and you didn't see him panic and take the first OC job available did you? Can you even name me a few college head coaches who have been even average, got fired then took an assistants job in college?

I think we did get their best, we are just that good. I don't mean to sound arrogant but there were a few reporters who were worried that NU was going to be disspointed that they were one second from playing in the Fiesta Bowl and would come out flat. On the other hand there were the same reporters who were saying that Arizona was pretty happy to be in the Holiday bowl and that was one thing to watch for was the level of intensity. It was obvious they couldn't match our intensity, speed or athleticism. Like Stoops said, we outclassed them as a team last night and it was great to see.

I don't think that's close to the only difference. Sure they have some similarities but I think there are a number of differences.

Thats interesting bc they dropped Guy to a three star. Maybe they just couldn't let NU have too many four stars. Also Crabtree was saying that Jackson had a bit of a dissapointing season so I wonder what warrented the jump in the stars. Also they were saying that Guy was a beast and when he's on hes one of the best DT's in Texas so I wonder what scout is seeing that Rivals is not.

Well it appears that TT is really heating up with Tuberville. That would be a damn good hire for them with his proven success and his ties to the south for recruiting. It would be kinda a flip flop where when they had Leach he could have less talent and still win with his system but if they get Tuberville they will likely improve their talent level dramitically through his recruiting.

I really don't think that Leach will go to the NFL. The guy runs such a basic system he would get eaten alive in the nfl. Also why does everyone think that these SUCCESSFUL HEAD COACHES would take an assistant job. These two coaches have taken their teams to heights that they have never been before and bc of some bad decisions and punk kids in some instances they got fired. They will not be assistant coaches anywhere in any league. Its the same talk as "maybe gill will be our oc, maybe solich will come back to be our oc". Why in the world would successful head coaches take a demotion. I could see if they tanked like Prince or Robinson but when youre a winner its dumb to even talk about.

For the love of God another "stars" thread...maybe I'll come at this another angle. Take the top 10 ranked teams in the country for example and look at their average ranked recruiting class from 06' to 09': Alabama: 11, 10, 1, 1 for an average of 5.75 Texas: 5, 5, 14, 5 for an average of 7.25 TCU: 61st, 80th, 96th, 46th for an average of 70.75 Cinci: 102nd, 89th, 67th, 60th for an average of 79.5 Florida: 2, 1, 3, 11 for an average of 4.25 Boise St: 70th, 68th, 89th, 72nd for an average of 74.75 Oregon: 49th, 11th, 19th, 32nd for an average of 26 Ohio St: 12, 15, 4, 3 for an average of 8.5 Georgia Tech: 57th, 18th, 49th, 49th for an average of 43.25 Iowa: 40th, 28th, 53rd, 63rd for an average of 46 Now take the teams that are typically in the top 10 out of this group. Cinci hasn't been there for probably 40+ years and the team can be largely attributed to the job Kelly did with them. TCU usually has a decent year about every four years but doesn't ever make it in the top five like they did this year, IMO it can be chalked up to the year just flat coming together for them. It won't happen for a while after this year. Boise state is there almost every year bc they don't play anyone. Outside of Oregon the two biggest games they had this year were Fresno State and Nevada!! Are you kidding me? Enough said. Georgia Tech is a good team but they run a very unique system for today's college football and they do a very good job recruiting for their scheme much like NU did in their hay day. Iowa should have had at least three losses this year and should have been knocked outside the top 15. They still aren't a regular member of the top ten and just got plain lucky this year. The only teams in this group that consistently are in the top ten are Bama, average rank of 5.75, UT, average rank of 7.25, Florida, average rank of 4.25 and Ohio State, avearge rank of 8.5.

does anyone know of the "other" reasons for him getting fired? On rivals it says that there are 3 other reasons aside from the obvious for him getting fired. Also Chris Perry, I'm sure some on here remember him quite well, said that what Leach did was ridiculous and practice this week was much less stressfull bc Leach was gone. I know some people will say things like this but I just find it hard to believe that Pelini were let go for something that is believed to be overblown none of the players would be saying anything bad about him and Pelini is a complete hard ass.

So Cody misses badly on ONE throw and he heads for the bench? Lee has missed badly on two of the interceptions for sure that I remember. Not only was one of them a bad throw it should have never been thrown. The first one, if thrown to the outside shoulder like it should have been instead of 5-7 yards to the inside where the safety was roaming it would have resulted in at least 50 yards if not a TD.

Yes I have seen him play in the state title game and he is a very, very good athlete. I believe I also said that if we were still running TO's system he would have been our qb for this class more than likely. Looks like a solid build and has pretty damn good wheels. I don't think his arm is quite up to par, neither arm strength nor accuracy so that's why I say he could make a pretty good safety with a few years in the system. I know cody or taylor have that great of arms but they are far better than Marsh's. I would love to see us land this kid as a walk on. Like I've said many times this is what made us a power back in the day IMO is landing kids that are outstanding athletes that just have some developing to do via walk on instead of offering them a schollie. Marsh fits that perfectly.

I'm sure he is well aware of Onyegbule also. Hopefully we can get both of them and add to what I'm hoping to be the best offensive recruiting class we've had in a looong time.

While I would LOVE to get him as a preffered walk on, I would cringe at the thought of NU offering him on his official. I think he could contribute as a safety someday but he's too risky to offer at this point IMO

Ya one with as much moxie as Roseanne has. I think we could be perfectly fine with qbs like Green and Turner if Wats would use them more according to their strengths. Take the TT game for example. The times Lee was in we ran the zone read I believe 8 or 9 times all for minimal gains. Cody Green comes in and we don't run the zone read once. So I'm thinking the coaches are thinking we are going to have throw the ball to win. Nope, when Lee comes back in we run the zone read a few more times for no gains. In the CU game Lee gets hurt and I'm thinking no problem, Green can run this offense easily and maybe even put some spice in the rollout game. Wats goes right back to putting him in the shotgun. I don't even need to mention the Big 12 CC when they put him in on the 1 and took him out after two sneaks and a play action from his own endzone but I had to. Dennis Dixon wasn't a great passer and their O was lights out until he got hurt. White wasn't a great passer and their offense was pretty explosive. Massoli isn't the greatest passer in the world. Thompson in 06 wasn't a great passer by any means and they seemed to move the ball pretty well. I know a lot of our struggles this year can be attributed to our o line but Wats has done nothing to counter act their struggles. No creativity, imagination or innovation at all. I'm sure Bo told him to go into a conservative gameplan but that's probably bc in the games against Mizzou and TT he showed he couldn't get the job done with this bunch. I know Willie you're a big fan of Wats but I'm just not seeing that he has what it takes to be an elite OC.