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By my count we have 8 left to give. This class may fill out by Oct 1.
Corc is right, there will be some natural attrition that occurs everytime a new coach takes over and starts moving people around. I couldn't and I wouldn't speculate on who won't be around, but if I had to guess, our class next season will be right around 20 kids.
P.S. Murray is a Gopher commit, I don't know why Rivals hasn't added him yet, but he was offered and he did accept the offer. I also heard from someone at the camp that Murray was REALLY impressive at CB, so take that for as little as an anonymous message board posting is worth but I try not to get too much into the "a little birdie" told me stuff, but it's a slow time of the year.
Corc is right, there will be some natural attrition that occurs everytime a new coach takes over and starts moving people around. I couldn't and I wouldn't speculate on who won't be around, but if I had to guess, our class next season will be right around 20 kids.
P.S. Murray is a Gopher commit, I don't know why Rivals hasn't added him yet, but he was offered and he did accept the offer. I also heard from someone at the camp that Murray was REALLY impressive at CB, so take that for as little as an anonymous message board posting is worth but I try not to get too much into the "a little birdie" told me stuff, but it's a slow time of the year.
Hold on there Bob. How can that be? After all he has no other offers, not even from W. Michigan, and is not rated! How can Coach Kill build a winner by taking these type of kids over 4 and 5 star studs? {:>)
...your birdie has been chirping a lot about Murray. I am afraid it is old news but hopefully still good news. The stories ranged from how they asked him to come back to try DB position. When he did, he was so impressive that he shut down Andre McDonald. The stories also included an excellent electronic time/speed and what great athleticism he had.
Sometimes stories improve with age and sometimes they actually prove to be true. Let's hope this one turns out to be the latter. If it does, we will be calling Jerry Kill and his staff greatest evaluators of unrecognized talent. If it doesn't, we will be hearing a lot of people saying I told you so. The one thing I know is that it isn't going to be answered here no matter how many times the same thing is repeated.
Please god, bring on fall football camp. I think we are getting very bored.
I completely hear what you are saying and I actually agree on everything you said. However, this is the first time i've said anything about Murray, and i've never said anything about a possible Murray/McDonald showdown. And, I don't know anything about his 40 or how it was timed. All I know is that someone told me he looked really impressive at camp, that was the extent of what I heard. I completely agree with you about that it doesn't matter what people say on here and you're right, I probably should've kept it to myself. But I did only say it once (well, now twice..lol).
...your birdie has been chirping a lot about Murray. I am afraid it is old news but hopefully still good news. The stories ranged from how they asked him to come back to try DB position. When he did, he was so impressive that he shut down Andre McDonald. The stories also included an excellent electronic time/speed and what great athleticism he had.
Sometimes stories improve with age and sometimes they actually prove to be true. Let's hope this one turns out to be the latter. If it does, we will be calling Jerry Kill and his staff greatest evaluators of unrecognized talent. If it doesn't, we will be hearing a lot of people saying I told you so. The one thing I know is that it isn't going to be answered here no matter how many times the same thing is repeated.
Please god, bring on fall football camp. I think we are getting very bored.
it's not a far-fetched assumption to believe that Kill is applying the same tough standards re speed and athleticism etc to all his evaluations and offerings.
OTOH, the skeptics/cynics/doomers will say "No way, can't be true, the kid's star-less...these stories are just well-timed bogus leaks from Kill & Co and other program toadies designed to pump-up a MAC-type recruiting strategy which will fail in the B1G."
Unfortunately, none of us will know the real story about these athletes until they sign, report for summer school 2012, participate in 2/d camp and then gameday. As Kill is fond of saying, they are alll "paper tigers" until they get on the field and actually contribute consistently game in and game out.
In the meantime, to help cope with the summer doldrums, as GHers we'll to do what we do best: hear more stories, speculate, debate facts/history/statistics, express opinions and continue to post possible scenarios about this class and Kill's future in Minneapolis.
Maybe it's just my imagination, but the hardest part about Kill's recruiting is that we don't have the hype of all the studs he is running around and offering like we seemed to have wtih Brewster. We did not get those guys, but we had the vision of a recruiting machine out there selling the glories of the M&G. Now we have half a class lined up with close to zero fanfare after McDonald's commitment. I don't know if the old staff had someone leaking stuff to the local sites, but the level of information definitely seems lower, or maybe it's just me.