Big Recruiting Update… Comings and Goings UPDATED
filed in Recruiting on Dec.18, 2007 by Skye
So, here is just a quick update for you guys. One line per news item, with a little bit of reaction.
Josh Berard: Switched his commitment from CU to Kansas State. Scout thinks so well of this he goes from a 3 to 2 star. Meh.
Darrel Scott narrowed his final list to four: Colorado, Florida, LSU, Texas. Rumors continue to abound that he is already a lock for CU on certain websites. He also won a state championship.
Lynn Katoa: His verbal is no longer “soft”. Nice…
TWO NEW COMMITTS UPDATE: MAKE IT THREE
Josh Williams: A defensive end without great size (6′4″, 220), but another solid 3 star commit. Hell ya baby!
Doug Rippy: A three star SLB with 4.5 speed and solid size. We don’t need no stinking JC LBs! Rippy has a really sweet name, but more importantly, switched from the Huskers. Stoked!
Last but not least:
Bryce Givens: This top 100 in the nation ranked player (# 11 OT) and very large (6′6″) man switched from Nebraska to CU as well. This is very important as Mr. Givens is from Colorado and nearly made the mistake of his life going to NU. Hell yes! (Scott, Darrel, this item is of interest to you!)
That new Husker coaching staff sure has impressed the recruits, hasn’t it?
Also, Scout.com has updated their recruit rankings. This has dropped CU from what would have been a top 20 spot to 30th.. The biggest change is dropping Jon Major from a 5 to a 4 star and Ray Polk down to a 3 star… Who cares? I like um and so should you! Rivals still has us at 21 so roll on!
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December 19th, 2007 on 9:09 am
Exciting class shaping up!! Will be interesting to see how many of this class come in and make significant impacts like the last class. 2009 will be a great great time to be a Buff with an exciting team dominated by Juniors and Sophs!
December 19th, 2007 on 9:15 am
It looks like Scouts now has us at #19, although I have no idea how those rankings work. If you compare us to Nebraska who is at #18, we have two more Top 100 players, two more 4 star recruits, two less 3 star players, and the same number of average stars. Yet, Nebraska has more “points” than us. Frankly, I don’t give a crap where these sites rank us, I’m happy with the job Hawkins is doing and excited to see how these kids turn out.
December 19th, 2007 on 10:22 am
why do they change the star power of these recruits? do they re-evaluate them after the season and make adjustments?
December 22nd, 2007 on 6:42 am
I was wanting to see and know what this year’s recruiting compares with the best of the 90’s? Could you give the best year CU recruited in the 90’s, the names, stars and compare this to that? Thanks,
JS
December 23rd, 2007 on 8:19 am
That’s a good question after searching the media guides and Internet, I came up with nothing official. I posed this one to Dave Plati. Of course he had the answer:
“I think Scout and Rival started in earnest around that time, morphing from some others… in the 90’s, the main ones were all magazine-type publications or services like SuperPrep, Max Emfinger, Prep Football Report, Blue Chip, and Joe Terranova’s Who’s Who All-Americans. Scout and Rivals are aligned with some of those; Bobby Wallace was the SuperPrep guy and I am not sure if he’s tied into one or other or he might be the expert for ESPN.com, CBS SoprtsLine or SI.com.
We used to list rankings every now and then in the media guide, until it became obvious that politics started playing into some of it (or the fact we were hearing some kids weren’t getting ranked higher, or at all, if the parents weren’t subscribing). Our top classes were the ‘92 and ‘96 classes (both as high as No. 2 by some services), and I know the ‘90, ‘91, ‘94, ‘95 and ‘98 classes were all generally considered top 10. The ‘87 one was not because it was so small, but if it had been based on quality and not quantity, or how they ranked them today, it may very well have been No. 1.”