Given this staff was hired in March, the fact that they're not primarily 2 stars is a pretty good thing.
And we're mostly going after guys with offers from P5 schools vs MAC guys, another good sign.
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Given this staff was hired in March, the fact that they're not primarily 2 stars is a pretty good thing.
And we're mostly going after guys with offers from P5 schools vs MAC guys, another good sign.
Partially, more so it's size/NFL potential
Illinois wins when its base recruiting is Chicago, Saint Louis and Indianapolis. Sprinkled in with a few skilled players from CA, FL, and TX
Joel Goodson
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Thanks.
Joel Goodson
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VG rebuttal. We've already seen several of our targets pick up star(s) when they are scrutinized more seriously. Am very comfortable we've targeted kids who are/will be legit P5 players. Great point about the Director of Scouting and his support staff. The Athletic Department is doing things right.
IU was putting together a nice class prior to the Kevin Wilson bomb. Several of their commits are higher ranked than ours. Any of those in play? Our better teams have had quite a few Indiana kids, and not necessarily from Indy. I recall off the top of my head Kevin Hardy from Evansville, Ken Dilger, and some other tight end from the Lafayette area ;-) Indiana high school football has gotten markedly better in the last decade or so. Hopefully Lovie's year head start on new IU and Purdue coaches pays off. Getting top kids out of Indiana is, as Whitey Herzog once said, "addition by subtraction."
It is important to understand that we have a director of player personnel who heads up recruiting efforts, but we also have a former NFL scout who is considered a recruiting analyst that is primarily responsible for finding these under the radar talents.
I would add Estes in as a QB we are recruiting. I bet he sticks there his freshman year too, while they redshirt Cam, as Estes is probably ahead of him now. Obviously Cam has the major projectability down the line.
Kendrick Green
I hope we can reel in K Green. I'd hate to have him go to Iowa. He seems to have a great attitude and would really be leader on the teams rebuild.
I hope we can reel in K Green. I'd hate to have him go to Iowa. He seems to have a great attitude and would really be leader on the teams rebuild.
Smalling is a four star on Rivals now.
Going way back. Linebacker Scott Studwell was from Evansville. He had a nice professional career with the Vikings, I believe.
Hearing good news comes in threes...
Thanks London, fantastic to hear. Look forward to hearing some official news break.
ILLINIFAN2
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I was hoping for 3 squared
My top three choices would be
Green, Carney, and Thomas
But I guess if we are thinking three, they may be from ESL?
I really want 6 bad
Green
Carney
Thomas
Fedd-Jackson
Roberson
Del'Shawn Phillips
Im sure carney knows he's a day one starter here....he and oladipo at ends would be amazing!! And SMALLING Thomas and carmoni makes Lawson even scarier with a cam newton type season auburn had in Illinois
ESL kids committing is what this tells me. I was hoping for about 10 commitments from this weekend. I'll take three though!
Landing the ESL kids would be a great headline, but with Thomas likely to end up in Juco, Estes being sort of a clone of Thomas, and Knight being a bit of a tweener, it would be more flash than substance for the time being.
Green, Carney, and Fedd-Jackson would be the three that would change the game.
It ain't rocket science. You beat your competition for players in the trenches in February, you will beat them on the field in October and November.
In theory yes, but you can help place a guy at a Juco where you have a relationship with the coaching staff and whatnot and you can try to keep it in the family.
Or maybe he could just go to Parkland for a year. I'm not sure what the situation is exactly, but the consensus from many different sources seems to be that he's not gonna qualify.
Supposing he commits, what are the chances Jeff Thomas ever plays a down at Illinois? I'm genuinely unsure. Certainly not zero, and that would be something worth celebrating.
And recruiting momentum in the St. Louis area is not to be overlooked. We're gonna be after a number of 2018 and 2019 guys from that region. Thomas is a star to those guys.
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