On OL recruiting:
- Our 2022 class was clearly elite. Cristobal leaving was a major catalyst for Banks and Williams flipping, but we took advantage and ended up with a great combination of quality and numbers.
- Since then, we have taken 7 recruits; 5 in 2023, and 2 in 2024.
- Of those 7,
- 5 out of 7 are ranked outside the top 400 in the country
- the other two are #193 and #240 (Chatman and Cruz)
- Goosby and Cruz in particular are held in high regard; they're considered under ranked. That may well be true, but I wouldn't apply those labels (under ranked, diamonds in the rough) to the entire position group
- also, when I looked at the list of offers we have out to OL in this class,
- we only have 19 total offers out; 12 to OTs, and 7 to IOL
- of those 19, 17 are committed to other schools
- the only recruits - 2 - who are still uncommitted? Baker and Carter
- so, yeah, the stakes are even higher than they would be, with two highly ranked prospects. But land these guys = especially Baker - and lordy lordy ....
Edit: Wiltfong added this in a thread yesterday.