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He and his girl just had a baby. Tough timing for him. Bo expects him to be here in January.

Big red turnover machine

Bo Knows

There are always unexpected departures. Going into the season with 82-83 leaving room for a couple walkons is perfect IMO. Every once in a while we'll hit that 80ish mark. Anything below that is pretty concerning to me, and it's happened a few times under Bo. USC, and all their sanctions...still is only capped at 75. So we've essentially self imposed almost an equal reduction as the NCAA placed on USC. How Bo wouldn't know about Guy, Okeyemi, and Evans before the end of last years recruiting is a little beyond me. He likely has that conversation with every senior on the team, and probably again after the regular season giving him a couple months to recruit the position. They would communicate that too him, I'm 100% confident. It only hurts the team not to. So why those spots weren't filled is bizarre. I don't think we can continue to brush this off as though it doesn't have an impact because we fill them with walkons that weren't going anywhere anyway. Being 6-8 short every year, when our competition is 2-3 over is too big of a gap. It's the difference between having a guy like Mike Shoff on the roster providing depth at OL, or another DT or two (Bazata), or a DE (Ott). It's in the trenches where we lack numbers, and it's there where we most often miss on recruiting. The numbers are the only way to solve that, and we aren't using them. It's my biggest issue with Pelini's recruiting. It's not so much the lack of talent in the individual, it's the lack of talent on the team because we lack the #s. Agree with you on this. We are consistently in the high 70s. We need to be around 82-84 coming out of fall camp, and that's not including injuries, and then 2-3 walkons earning scholarships a year to get us to 85. Bo needs to do a better job of keeping us in the low 80s. 2-3 players can make a big difference in depth, like Ott and Bazata, or look what happened with Leroy Alexander, a lowly 2 star. IMO we need to oversign by one or two every class to help keep up with the transfers that will happen. Would get us right where we need to be when the season starts 82 83. We are at 80 for next year with 12 recruits committed for the 2015 class so we can sign 5 more right now. Would like to see us sign 18-19 total with over signing. Wouldn't be mad at all if Bo pushed it to the limit and we signed 20. There will be a few transfers in the spring and we'll be right back to 85. Put history shows us Bo hasn't taken advantage of the over signing. I really hope in a small class he does it this year.

Did we burn a bridge by telling him we were taking Dale and then watch as he laughed at us? No, he was asked not to long ago and he didn't even know about it.

He's originally from Nashville.

I usually go to a few home and one away game. Planning on getting season tickets when the kids get older.

He's from Nashville, so I don't think we have much of a shot

Or he knows if Cockrell goes down Kalu is all we got.

He will have three years of eligibility at whatever school he chooses.

Ok so I'm going to vent a little here. Why are we micromanaging the football forum?. Making a seperate thread for every position group is cluttering up the board and making everything hard to follow. Don't understand why we can't keep everything in one thread like we had the last few years. You click on the link and it takes you right where you left off. Instead I have to open 10 threads. Not everyone has all day to look at stuff. The board is cluttered and hard to follow this fall. Jmo. Edit got a good answer. Thanks Mav

Any idea on their QB situation?

Sounds like he may have broke his ankle. Which would actually be better than a sever or high sprain. For those that don't know kbb is a frequent poster in the recruiting forum from Katy where AT went to HS and he talked a lot about trying to keep AT safe driving in the snow.

While agree, we have to remember he was just a true freshman. Bando is going to a man amongst boys when he's done here. Dude has so much talent and athleticism it's scary, reminds me a lot of Brian Urlacher.

This isn't from the staff. Look where the announcement came from... The AD...Not Bo. This has nothing to do with the staff.

Word on paid boards are he failed a drug test. Got caught by either B1G or NCAA taking something to get himself bigger faster if you get my drift. Should be fairly obvious. Hopefully he takes his lumps and stays.

Ok now they are saying 6'2 in all the articles.

247 thinks he's 6'3"

Top 5 before your junior season. Geeez. I know some have already committed but man is it really speeding up. Offering late summer before their senior season is considered late. Ridiculous.

USC commit

So much kool aid...trying to resist

I think it should be "happy" by Pharrell

Recently returned from a camp at Tennesee. That may have had something to do with it.

Tell that to Stringfellow

Pretty sure it's 1 central. He texted one of the 247 guys. If not well find out an hour earlier.