For all those concerned about stars, Anthony Castanzo had no offers out of Lake Zurich and just went to Indy, to possibly replace Diem.

In retrospect kind of surprised Joe didn't offer him. We were oviously scouting LZ because we got Skarb the same year.

"Castanzo hails from Illinois and graduated from Lake Zurich High School last year with no D1A interest.
"None," he said. "No one came around or even asked about me. It was odd because I thought I was a D-1 player and I told my coach so. He said to think about D-2 or D-3 but I wasn't going to settle for that. I went to a summer camp at North Carolina and coach John Shuman from Fork Union noticed me. He said I was a 'tweener at the time but that I'd be a blue-chip prospect by the end of my time at Fork Union. I liked what he was saying.""

(04-28-2011 09:49 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  For all those concerned about stars, Anthony Castanzo had no offers out of Lake Zurich and just went to Indy, to possibly replace Diem.

"Castanzo hails from Illinois and graduated from Lake Zurich High School last year with no D1A interest.
"None," he said. "No one came around or even asked about me. It was odd because I thought I was a D-1 player and I told my coach so. He said to think about D-2 or D-3 but I wasn't going to settle for that. I went to a summer camp at North Carolina and coach John Shuman from Fork Union noticed me. He said I was a 'tweener at the time but that I'd be a blue-chip prospect by the end of my time at Fork Union. I liked what he was saying.""

Hhe also has a 3.5 GPA and BC nominated him for a Rhodes Scholar. Impressive.

(04-28-2011 09:49 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  For all those concerned about stars, Anthony Castanzo had no offers out of Lake Zurich and just went to Indy, to possibly replace Diem.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/bl...aaf-wp1103

LB Donavin Newsom St. Louis, MissouriParkway North 6'2" 220

Illinois Medium Offered
Indiana Medium Offered
Iowa Medium Offered
Kansas State Medium
Michigan State Medium
Missouri Medium Offered
Nebraska Medium Offered
Northern Illinois Medium Offered
Wake Forest Medium Offered
Wisconsin Medium Offered

OL Ty Darlington Apopka, FloridaApopka 6'3" 275 5.1

Alabama Medium
Auburn Medium Offered
Clemson Medium Offered
Colorado Medium Offered
Colorado State Medium Offered
Connecticut Medium Offered
Duke Medium Offered
Florida Medium
Florida State Medium Offered
Georgia Medium
Georgia Tech Medium Offered
Iowa Medium Offered
Louisville Medium Offered
LSU Medium Offered
Marshall Medium Offered
Miami (FL) Medium Offered
Michigan Medium Offered
Michigan State Medium Offered
Minnesota Medium Offered
Navy Medium Offered
Nebraska Medium Offered
North Carolina Medium Offered
Northern Illinois Medium Offered
Northwestern Medium Offered
Oklahoma Medium Offered
Rutgers Medium Offered
South Carolina Medium Offered
Stanford Medium
Texas Tech Medium
Utah Medium Offered
Virginia Tech Medium Offered
Wake Forest Medium Offered
Washington State Medium Offered

OL Jacob Bailey Carmel, IndianaCathedral 6'4" 275

Akron Medium
Ball State Medium Offered
Bowling Green Medium
Cincinnati Medium
Indiana Medium
Iowa Medium
Louisville Medium
Miami (OH) Medium Offered
Michigan State Medium
Northern Illinois Medium Offered
Purdue Medium
Toledo Medium Offered
Western Michigan Medium Offered
Wisconsin Medium

OL Daniel Glauser Roswell, New MexicoNew Mexico Military Institute 6'6" 320 5.2


Alabama Medium
Arkansas Medium Offered
Eastern Michigan Medium
Florida State Medium Offered
Iowa State Medium
Louisville Medium
LSU Medium
Memphis Medium Offered
Mississippi Medium
New Mexico Medium Offered
New Mexico State Medium Offered
Northern Illinois Medium Offered
San Diego State Medium
TCU Medium
Texas State Medium
Texas Tech Medium
Utah Medium
UTEP Medium Offered
Western Kentucky Medium Offered

Jacob Bailey is the only one we would have a real chance with based on the offers to the players listed. BCS are in on the others. Won't win that battle

We need at least 2 QB's to be recruited this year due to graduations and position movements. I would like to hear more about that position than I have so far.

(05-06-2011 11:51 AM)klake87 Wrote:  Jacob Bailey is the only one we would have a real chance with based on the offers to the players listed. BCS are in on the others. Won't win that battle

Agreed, I hope we are not spending to much resource$ on guys that have more than a handful of BCS offers. I don't know if Doeren thinks that NIU is a destination for these guys or if we just need to puff our chest out and look like we can recruit against teams like Alabama, FSU or Nebraska.

I think these may have been guys that Doeren and Canada had on their list as prospects from last year and they are just hoping that the guy will follow the coach that was recruiting him rather than the team.

Granted if he can somehow bring in one guy like that every year or two then I will gladly have egg on my face and .

Jordon Westerkamp to Nebraska.

Offer out to Kodi Kieler DE 6'6" 305 lbs. from Mich.

(05-06-2011 12:01 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  We need at least 2 QB's to be recruited this year due to graduations and position movements. I would like to hear more about that position than I have so far.

..Prefer a top JUCO QB as one of the -2-, not a fill in JC.

Pharoh Brown to Mich.

This KS LB should get serious consideration for an offer. Nearly 100 tackles, 22 TFL's

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/re...ore-124431

Offer out to Kyle Kelley, DE 6'3" 205 lbs. per rivals, from Cal. He has multiple BCS offers. Scout has him listed @ 230 lbs.

(05-10-2011 04:59 AM)thetachihuskie Wrote:  Offer out to Kyle Kelley, DE 6'3" 205 lbs. from Cal. He has multiple BCS offers.

I believe our 2nd offer out to a California kid. One of the coaches must have a pipeline out there. I like to see it.

California is a waste of time unless someone has JC connections.

Offer out to Josh Ruka OL 6'6" 285 lbs. from Wisc.

Offers out to Vincent Valentine DT 6'3" 300 lbs., Scott Taylor OL 6'4" 270 lbs., and Perez Ford ATH 6'2" 210 lbs., all from Ill. Looks like they are going for OL/DL help.

Offer out to Mikhail Dubose DE 6'3" 240 lbs., from Ill.

Offer out to Mario Jones DE 6'3" 275 lbs., teamate of Dubose at Hubbard HS in Chicago.

Doeren and company have certainly been busy since spring practice got done.