Published on: 1st April, 2010
A cornerback is a difficult position to evaluate. Aside from the physical demands, a cornerback must have finesse, timing and intelligence, which can be difficult things to judge in a one-and-a-half minute Youtube clip. Worse yet, film was hard to come by for many cornerbacks in the 2011 class, which meant I ...Published on: 31st March, 2010
The college football transfer leads a funny life. The NCAA rule requiring transfers to sit out one year sometimes means fans, teams, and the recruitosphere at large lose track of the athletes everyone was buzzing about two years ago. From what Ryan Mallett did for Arkansas last year and Jevan Snead did ...Published on: 30th March, 2010
The SEC is still the biggest and best league when it comes to college football recruiting. Schools aren't judged on whether they can land five-star recruits, but how many they can land. The time has come to predict which SEC school will field the most five-star recruits when the book closes on ...Published on: 29th March, 2010
Most who follow recruiting believe that a majority of players wind up choosing the school that is the best fit for them. But hindsight is 20/20. And for those few players who do slip through the cracks, the wrong program can sometimes be the difference between boom and bust. What seemed a ...Published on: 26th March, 2010
On official visits, recruits live the good life. It's an all-expenses-paid vacation to a college campus. Having a fanbase that knows your name and a coach ready to bend over backwards for your every whim, recruits must feel like royalty. Or do they? I've never gone on a recruiting visit myself, but it's ...Published on: 25th March, 2010
One of the many perks of working the 2011 recruiting beat is hearing about great under-the-radar prospects—like wide receiver Marcus Leak, of Monroe, North Carolina—before their recruitment takes off. Helping that happen is something I'm thrilled to try and do. Marcus's coach was kind enough to email me a few days ago ...Published on: 24th March, 2010
Lost in the constant back-and-forth over where a recruit will end up is the issue of where they actually should end up. From the most objective standpoint, in what system will these quarterbacks really excel? At what program will they feel most comfortable? I don't know the first thing about how these ...Published on: 23rd March, 2010
One glance at a map showing the location of every top 100 recruit from 2009 will tell you where the top talent is in the country. But while the location of great recruits is easy to discern, how easy is it to actually get those recruits away from their home state? After ...Published on: 22nd March, 2010
Anyone new to the sport of recruiting must wonder what the term ATH means next to a player's name. What is an Athlete? Aren't all players athletes? The answer is both simple and complex. Yes, all football players are athletes. But some are such good athletes that deciding where they should ...Published on: 16th March, 2010
Though I hail from the land of the Big Ten, watching Lloyd Carr's Michigan teams call run, run, incomplete pass, punt 70 percent of the time didn't brainwash me into the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust philosophy. Instead, it taught me there was something more to a college offense: yes, running the ball is important. ...