ESPN - Sun Belt Recruiting

MeanGreen61 · January 25, 2006

ESPN's look at Sun belt recruits thus far & how they score.

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/...e%3fconfId%3d37

PHSCoach · January 25, 2006

Troy has 6 late qualifiers that seems a little high

EagleD · January 25, 2006

We used to have quite the pipeline into Oklahoma. I think it was NE Oklahoma JC we recruited a lot of kids from. Do we still have that connection? Do we still need that connection? Don't get me wrong, I like recruiting kids from Texas, but I'll take the best kids available.

GO MEAN GREEN !!!!!!

Shof · January 25, 2006

Troy has 6 late qualifiers that seems a little high
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Also interesting that they got 3 ranked QBs on that list. Looks like ASU plucked a pretty good OG from the Dallas area (Carrolton?).

H-towngreen · January 25, 2006

We used to have quite the pipeline into Oklahoma. I think it was NE Oklahoma JC we recruited a lot of kids from. Do we still have that connection? Do we still need that connection?
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NEO was our main JUCO spot for the last couple of years. We have none this year though. K-State has raided NEO this year as rivals has 14 players listed from NEO and 5 are committed to K-State. We are/did go after 3* OT Lee Tibbs but he is still shown as committed to Iowa State. At our need postion of DT both NEO prospects have already verbaled, so no luck there.

MeanGreenBuzz · January 26, 2006

So why can Troy and stAte get nationally ranked recruits and we can't?

mwynn05 · January 26, 2006

Stegall is now going to Miami

Edited January 26, 2006 by mwynn05

Shof · January 26, 2006

So why can Troy and stAte get nationally ranked recruits and we can't?
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I think we as fans put too much stock into sites like Rivals and Scout, etc. Good example is our Cajuns recruiting class last year. We landed the 3-star running back out of Houston (Wallace) and got another nobody had heard about (read: not rated by rivals/scout, etc) -- a kid named Fenroy. Well, folks know about him now. If these kids aren't found early (junior yr), or if some big time school isn't after them they fall through the cracks by the rating services. I think in the end we will both have fine recruiting classes; we just won't know it for a couple years in most cases.