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Made up some ground in the recruiting class, just about where last year's class was. Obviously there's room for it to drop, but we might stay in the 30s vs in the 40s.
 

PhiloVance said:
Can't wait for the day Gopher's is no longer considered science development football team. But gotta to lucky with 2 & 3 star players and win big inorder to get 4 & 5 star players.
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Could you repeat the thing you said about the stuff????🤔🤔🤔
 


According to 247, by my count here is the breakdown of 4⭐️ recruits:

Big Ten East - 50
Big Ten West - 9

Just found that interesting and eye opening.

5⭐️ is 4 to 0.
 



Some Day...Maybe said:
According to 247, by my count here is the breakdown of 4⭐️ recruits:

Big Ten East - 50
Big Ten West - 9

Just found that interesting and eye opening.

5⭐️ is 4 to 0.
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Do you have a break down? I would think Ohio St Mich. Mich St, PA. West Wis, IA, Mn
 



Pompous Elitist said:
Ciarocca definitely recruited some guys that could also run - Armstrong, Maverick McIvor, Max Duggan. Clark and ZA were a back up plan and a walk on, IIRC.

I haven’t been following this super closely but appears Knuth is a big guy that can also run it decently. I‘d think losing Sanford and getting Ciarrocca back would increase QB interest in MN but hard to predict the importance of relationships and personal promises, that sort of thing.
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Clark was a high 3-star, according to 247 recruiting profile. From a 6A Texas high school, not sure how competitive they were.

Rivals had him as a 4-star, which is what was on his gophersports bio:

HIGH SCHOOL: Enrolled at Minnesota in January 2019 after attending Rockwall High School in Rockwall, Texas • wore No. 12 for the Yellowjackets and threw for 6,232 yards and 60 touchdowns in 23 varsity games • as a senior, led team to an 8-3 record and completed 192-of-296 passes (64.9%) for 3,295 yards and 31 touchdowns • averaged 299.5 yards per game and longest pass of the year was 84 yards • also rushed for 51 yards and 10 touchdowns • threw for 428 yards and accounted for three touchdowns in his final high school game, which was against the No. 3 team in the nation Allen High School • named District 11 Offensive Player of the Year in 2018 • as a junior, completed 185-of-295 passes for 2,937 yards and 29 touchdowns • averaged 244.8 yards per game and longest pass of the year was 66 yards • rushed for 125 yards and seven touchdowns • coached by Rodney Webb • four-star recruit and the No. 13 pro-style quarterback by Rivals.
 

MplsGopher said:
Clark was a high 3-star, according to 247 recruiting profile. From a 6A Texas high school, not sure how competitive they were.

Rivals had him as a 4-star, which is what was on his gophersports bio:

HIGH SCHOOL: Enrolled at Minnesota in January 2019 after attending Rockwall High School in Rockwall, Texas • wore No. 12 for the Yellowjackets and threw for 6,232 yards and 60 touchdowns in 23 varsity games • as a senior, led team to an 8-3 record and completed 192-of-296 passes (64.9%) for 3,295 yards and 31 touchdowns • averaged 299.5 yards per game and longest pass of the year was 84 yards • also rushed for 51 yards and 10 touchdowns • threw for 428 yards and accounted for three touchdowns in his final high school game, which was against the No. 3 team in the nation Allen High School • named District 11 Offensive Player of the Year in 2018 • as a junior, completed 185-of-295 passes for 2,937 yards and 29 touchdowns • averaged 244.8 yards per game and longest pass of the year was 66 yards • rushed for 125 yards and seven touchdowns • coached by Rodney Webb • four-star recruit and the No. 13 pro-style quarterback by Rivals.
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This was the Max Duggan recruiting cycle, who IIRC was a heavy Minnesota lean/favorite but ended up verbaling to TCU. Then we had offers out to TX guys McIvor and Clark (maybe more). McIvor IMO looked like a dynamite dual threat QB more in the mold of Duggan and had a better offer sheet to boot. We ended up taking Clark and McIvor went to Texas Tech (subsequently season ending injury). The book will still be written on which is the ”better” QB but Duggan and McIvor were very different players than Clark.
 

PhiloVance said:
Do you have a break down? I would think Ohio St Mich. Mich St, PA. West Wis, IA, Mn
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Penn State - 15
Ohio State - 14
Michigan - 7
Mich St - 5
Rutgers - 4
Indiana - 4
Minnesota - 2
Purdue - 2
Iowa - 2
NW - 2
Wis - 1
Maryland - 1
 






FullBanana said:
For now at least. We have more recruits overall than Iowa, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Nebraska.
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Nebraska just lost their top recruit to Cal. He's a running back and wonder if the kid from Holy Angels will take his spot at Nebraska.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Nebraska just lost their top recruit to Cal. He's a running back and wonder if the kid from Holy Angels will take his spot at Nebraska.
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Crystal balls coming in for Emmett Johnson to Nebraska. Wow, Nebraska is a shell of itself on the field, is recruiting descending now as well? They had the 20th class last year. Right now they are ranked 60th and last in the B1G. If they take Johnson as it appears they will, they will have him and Androff from Minnesota, neither of which have a Gopher offer at this point.
 

btowngopher said:
Crystal balls coming in for Emmett Johnson to Nebraska. Wow, Nebraska is a shell of itself on the field, is recruiting descending now as well? They had the 20th class last year. Right now they are ranked 60th and last in the B1G. If they take Johnson as it appears they will, they will have him and Androff from Minnesota, neither of which have a Gopher offer at this point.
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Iowa State has tended to offer every played in Minnesota with 2-star look or better, so do those two at least have Iowa State offers??
 


btowngopher said:
Crystal balls coming in for Emmett Johnson to Nebraska. Wow, Nebraska is a shell of itself on the field, is recruiting descending now as well? They had the 20th class last year. Right now they are ranked 60th and last in the B1G. If they take Johnson as it appears they will, they will have him and Androff from Minnesota, neither of which have a Gopher offer at this point.
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For EJ to Nebby is it for a scholarship or PWO?
 

What is new they do not go after a lot of the Minnesota kids, like NDSU they pursue lineman, TE, and linebackers. The top 10 to 15 players should all get offers from their home state every year. They would be better reaching out to the local kids, example is Boyd, he is a long way from home.
 


btowngopher said:
Crystal balls coming in for Emmett Johnson to Nebraska. Wow, Nebraska is a shell of itself on the field, is recruiting descending now as well? They had the 20th class last year. Right now they are ranked 60th and last in the B1G. If they take Johnson as it appears they will, they will have him and Androff from Minnesota, neither of which have a Gopher offer at this point.
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I think Johnson is a good player and a nice get for them but with us only taking one RB this cycle and already having Evans committed, we didn’t have room for Johnson.
 

btowngopher said:
Crystal balls coming in for Emmett Johnson to Nebraska. Wow, Nebraska is a shell of itself on the field, is recruiting descending now as well? They had the 20th class last year. Right now they are ranked 60th and last in the B1G. If they take Johnson as it appears they will, they will have him and Androff from Minnesota, neither of which have a Gopher offer at this point.
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Emmit Johnson is a really good player, wish we could take him for the Gophers
 

Tommyboy said:
What is new they do not go after a lot of the Minnesota kids, like NDSU they pursue lineman, TE, and linebackers. The top 10 to 15 players should all get offers from their home state every year. They would be better reaching out to the local kids, example is Boyd, he is a long way from home.
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They pretty much always offer most of the top 10 guys.
 

gopherdudepart2 said:
Emmit Johnson is a really good player, wish we could take him for the Gophers
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Would be interested to know how the staff sees him. Would be a good candidate for a gray shirt if they wanted to bring him in, since we'll be losing Ibrahim and Williams after 2022. But if Nebby is offering a scholly right away, I would imagine that would be hard to turn down, even if Nebraska is a bit of a dumpster fire right now.
 

FullBanana said:
Penn State - 15
Ohio State - 14
Michigan - 7
Mich St - 5
Rutgers - 4
Indiana - 4
Minnesota - 2
Purdue - 2
Iowa - 2
NW - 2
Wis - 1
Maryland - 1
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With these numbers it really is amazing how competitive the West has been with the East. Things like the "JV" article are based on perception -- which recruiting rankings and CCG result definitely influence -- but we all know the West has played the East almost dead even in crossover games. Better coaching? Better cultures?
 

I actually think Camden Royal looks better on the hudl film, reminds me Bucko, doesn't have the prototypical size like Johnson.
 

MGGopher said:
With these numbers it really is amazing how competitive the West has been with the East. Things like the "JV" article are based on perception -- which recruiting rankings and CCG result definitely influence -- but we all know the West has played the East almost dead even in crossover games. Better coaching? Better cultures?
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Probably a combination of a lot of factors. The biggest one being that there may not be nearly as big a difference between high 3* and low 4* recruits as some would like to believe.
 


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