ESPN's take on our recruiting class

[2forISU]

Big 12 - ESPN

 

[tman24]

according to them we completely forgot to recruit TE.

darn you rhoads.

 

[anticyclonic]

I would average a C- in many of my classes and turned out okay. I guess we will find out, I thought we did just fine.

 

[Clones21]

I would of bumped it up to a C+ or maybe B- if we came away with Mars and Marry

 

[jtdoyle1]

I didn't realize money was kicked off his team. What was that all about?

 

[Knownothing]

OH yeah and for those that don't think the experts know what they are talking about on recruiting. The top classes always end up at the top.

1. Texas -- A
2. Oklahoma -- B-plus
3. Texas A&M -- B-minus
4. Texas Tech -- B-minus
5. Oklahoma State -- C-plus
6. Missouri -- C-plus
7. Nebraska -- C
8. Colorado -- C
9. Baylor -- C
10. Kansas -- C-minus
11. Iowa State -- C-minus
12. Kansas State -- C-minus

 

[Benny34]

OH yeah and for those that don't think the experts know what they are talking about on recruiting. The top classes always end up at the top.

1. Texas -- A
2. Oklahoma -- B-plus
3. Texas A&M -- B-minus
4. Texas Tech -- B-minus
5. Oklahoma State -- C-plus
6. Missouri -- C-plus
7. Nebraska -- C
8. Colorado -- C
9. Baylor -- C
10. Kansas -- C-minus
11. Iowa State -- C-minus
12. Kansas State -- C-minus

Do you ever think its the other way around? Maybe these recruiting classes are ranked this way due to the tradition of the schools they end up going to? Just saying it goes both ways.

 

[Clones21]

according to them we completely forgot to recruit TE.

darn you rhoads.

We have plenty of TE's..We have Collin Franklin, whitch i think will start and who else? I just cant remeber but im sure we have a couple others

 

[Wesley]

The North is just C recruiters....Nebraska signed 21...did they miss on some big ones?

 

[trajanJ]

ESPN is terrible. They don't do their homework. Rivals is by far the best.

 

[jtdoyle1]

We have plenty of TE's..We have Collin Franklin, whitch i think will start and who else? I just cant remeber but im sure we have a couple others

Plus how many true tight ends will be needed for Herman's spread offense.

 

[Duff]

In addition to Franklin we have 6-4 Senior Derrick Catlett, 6-8 soph Carter Bykowski, 6-6 soph Kurt Hammerschmidt, and oh yes, sophomore Patrick Neal of West Des Moines, who came out of nowhere last season to grab one late-season touchdown pass and played some great ball.
That's five TEs, all except Hammerschmidt having good experience.
Somebody thinks we needed to recruit tight ends?

 

[Duff]

We have experienced tight ends coming out our ears. See my other post.

 

[Clones21]

In addition to Franklin we have 6-4 Senior Derrick Catlett, 6-8 soph Carter Bykowski, 6-6 soph Kurt Hammerschmidt, and oh yes, sophomore Patrick Neal of West Des Moines, who came out of nowhere last season to grab one late-season touchdown pass and played some great ball.
That's five TEs, all except Hammerschmidt having good experience.
Somebody thinks we needed to recruit tight ends?

Yeah! Thats all of them, i knew we had a crap load of TE's

 

[arganbright2]

Franklin Catlett are the only TE's out of that group. Hammerschmidt is a stretch even though he has the size and Bykowski/Neal will probably not play a whole lot. Just my guess

 

[cybsball20]

I was pretty impressed by what I saw from Bykowski...

 

[cyclonez7]

The only measuring stick for me is number of W's.

 

[CloneIce]

KU is ranked much higher by Rivals, 5th I think.

ESPN FB recruiting does kinda blow.

 

[cybsball20]

ESPN FB recruiting does kinda blow.

I don't think they really put much money and effort into it... But if they ever decide they want to, they would put scout and rivals out of business in a week...

 

[sdmredsox]

OH yeah and for those that don't think the experts know what they are talking about on recruiting. The top classes always end up at the top.

1. Texas -- A
2. Oklahoma -- B-plus
3. Texas A&M -- B-minus
4. Texas Tech -- B-minus
5. Oklahoma State -- C-plus
6. Missouri -- C-plus
7. Nebraska -- C
8. Colorado -- C
9. Baylor -- C
10. Kansas -- C-minus
11. Iowa State -- C-minus
12. Kansas State -- C-minus

So It looks like were 1-2 players away from having the 5th best class in the Big XII. Im happy, hard to argue with what we assembled, and in the time Coach Rhoads had to assemble it. My only concern was the lack of OL in this class, I would have liked to have seen 5 or 6, but Im not going to lose sleep over it.