Status of 2011 recruits

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Based off what I'm reading, here's where I see the current recruits residing:

Rock Solid (will definitely be a Gopher even if Trestman is hired)
Olson

Very Solid (likely will be a Gopher even if Trestman is hired)
K. McAvoy
L. McAvoy

Solid (mostly due to lack of other offers)
Bauducco
Brown
Oyenuga

Unknown (may stay if solid hire is made)
Matilus
Rohr
Shortell
Vann
Westerhaus

Wavering (likely to be retained with a strong hire)
Crawford-Tufts
Haughton-James
Moore

One foot out the door (likely to decommit soon unless outstanding hire is made)
LaCosse

Thoughts?

Please attack at will - these are based entirely off my own reading and speculation. The only ones I'm supremely confident on are Olson, the McAvoys, and LaCosse. The rest are guesswork. I'd love for my interpretation to be firmed up (or discounted entirely) with some inside knowledge.
 

How about transfers.. Like Beal?
 

Formo said:
How about transfers.. Like Beal?
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He already transferred once, hard to imagine he would leave another school. In addition, one of the key points that drew him to Minnesota was the academic program he was interested in and the number of fortune 500 companies with which to intern / work.
 

We will likely sign all of them and no one will transfer. Just give Gray some snaps, show a little life or maybe even win another game and make a solid hire; the class will close out fine.
 

Stargenes said:
We will likely sign all of them and no one will transfer. Just give Gray some snaps, show a little life or maybe even win another game and make a solid hire; the class will close out fine.
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+1 I like your thinking.
 


Formo said:
How about transfers.. Like Beal?
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Beal lost a year of eligibility this year. He'd lose another next year by transferring somewhere else. He'd only have one year left to play at that new school, so I'd guess he's pretty much stuck here by circumstances, even if he wanted to transfer.
 


Stargenes said:
We will likely sign all of them and no one will transfer. Just give Gray some snaps, show a little life or maybe even win another game and make a solid hire; the class will close out fine.
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We will likely NOT sign all of them. The new coach will have to evaluate all these kids, decide which ones he still wants and then decide who else to offer. If we hire someone who is already a head coach, there's a good chance they'll bring some recruits with.

Now, in terms of our current commitments, good to know Big Tom will be coming here. Would be great if we could hold onto LaCosse and the McAvoys. Don't really care for the rest. Glad that Texas DB went elsewhere.
 

Oh, I guess that Oyenuga is still committed. Wouldn't break my heart if he didn't sign here
 





KoolAid said:
Now, in terms of our current commitments, good to know Big Tom will be coming here. Would be great if we could hold onto LaCosse and the McAvoys. Don't really care for the rest.
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Matilus, Moore, and Vann all have decent offer lists. I'd be happy to retain all. I'd also like to keep Crawford-Tufts and Westerhaus because they're in-state kids worthy of playing in the Big Ten. Haughton-James also looks to be picking up some steam from BCS programs.

I'm with you on the rest. Meh.
 

Olson and the McAvoys are the big three, as long as we can hang on to them it will be something a little bit less of a completely lost class.

I have a feeling we'll hang onto Crawford-Tufts, just a feeling.

From the wish, personally I'd really like to see LaCrosse stick around, and hope Brown, Bauducco, Matilus, Moore,Vann, Rohr, and Shortell (GINGER QB!!) all stay too. But I have the feeling unless the new coach really recruits LaCrosse hard, he's gone.

How many of the 15 we end up signing is anyones guess, but MV wrote a good piece awhile back about the dangers of not having a balanced lineup of Srs, Jrs, Sophs, and Freshman. The 2012 class (current Soph's) iscurrently at 11. The moral of the story is: sign small classes you pay for it later with small senior classes (see current team).

If you're looking for a positive, if we undersign the 2011 class (almost a guarantee) the 2012 class should be massive, giving the new coach a chance to bring in a bunch of his own players. That worked out for Brew, right?
 



gophergrad said:
If you're looking for a positive, if we undersign the 2011 class (almost a guarantee) the 2012 class should be massive, giving the new coach a chance to bring in a bunch of his own players. That worked out for Brew, right?
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No, I belive it can be limited to 28 (25 fall entrants and 3 grey shirts).
 

One thing that I was thinking about, coincedentally, a guy like Kevin Sumlin would probably appeal to our current list of recruits. I am NOT saying this should play any sort of part of the decision of who are next coach is going to be, I just thought it was somewhat of a coincedence.

What I mean is that Sumlin would be bringing in a wide open spread passing attack and a 3-4 defense.

I would imagine that playing in Sumlin's offense would appeal to Shortell, Crawford-Tufts, C. Brown and even LaCosse.

I would also imagine that the idea of playing in a 3-4 is appealing to our numerous LB recruits (Vann, Westerhous, Matilus, etc.).

It seems like the McAvoys and Olson are pretty much locks, so yeah, it would seem from my very superficial first glance, that Sumlin would have a pretty good chance of retaining most of these guys.
 


Silvio said:
Wouldn't break my heart if you stopped posting, but you still do.
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+1 At least regarding recruits because you tend to be significantly off base. There is good manageable talent in this class presently committed and I seriously doubt the coach we hire will be asking any of them to take a hike. You do know that we need to sign a full class in '11, don't you?
 

gophergrad said:
How many of the 15 we end up signing is anyones guess, but MV wrote a good piece awhile back about the dangers of not having a balanced lineup of Srs, Jrs, Sophs, and Freshman. The 2012 class (current Soph's) iscurrently at 11. The moral of the story is: sign small classes you pay for it later with small senior classes (see current team).
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I am in complete and total agreement with this statement. One of Brewster's problems--and he had his share of them--was that he believed he lacked the depth necessary to red-shirt this year's junior class and as a result he wasted a ton of kids' eligibility and didn't win enough games to make the gamble worthwhile.

A team needs to have balanced classes and not the type of 28 one year to below 20 the next roller-coaster that Brewster put the team on. Whoever the new guy is, I think we can expect at least a half dozen JUCOs in tow for next season. I don't like JUCOs, but we won't be able to field a team in 2012 if we don't have some of them.
 


Stargenes said:
We will likely sign all of them and no one will transfer. Just give Gray some snaps, show a little life or maybe even win another game and make a solid hire; the class will close out fine.
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Aren't you the guy who used to spin those wild tails about lockdown corners, best safties in the Big 10 and must play Watkins because he will be all conference?
 


KoolAid said:
Oh, I guess that Oyenuga is still committed. Wouldn't break my heart if he didn't sign here
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He might not be the sexiest recruit, but we are pretty thin in the secondary.

On that note hopefully Watkins DOES turn out to be all conference, because our depth at safety for next year is slim, if we don't recruit anyone this year.
 

Klondike Gopher Fan said:
Aren't you the guy who used to spin those wild tails about lockdown corners, best safties in the Big 10 and must play Watkins because he will be all conference?
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How can a player exhibit lockdown skills lined up 10 yards off the receivers pursuant to scheme? I stand behind any statement made that WATKINS will be one of the best Safeties in the Conference. Fortunate for us, he is the highest ceiling (talent) safety on the roster. :cool: Good to know that you are paying attention.
 


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