I don't follow all the players and who has offered. Over the last 10 years or so, who has been the most heavily recruited commitment.
I know at the end Garrett Wolfe got a late offer from Florida. I also know that Eddie Adamski got a late offer from Illinois.
Anyone else?????
I don't follow recruiting as much as others, but I'm pretty sure that both Britt Davis and Phil Brown had BCS offers. I know Davis was offered at the same time as his brother (and was probably considered the prize of the deal, he better have been). Brown was a big reason we got such high marks for that particular recruiting class.
I believe Larry English had a late offer from Iowa. Britt Davis had an offer from Indiana.
If you look up some old articles you find that Justin Anderson said he was offered by the Turner Illini, and then who knows what happened when zooker took over.
That's a hard and non-relevant question to answer. There are a number of players on the current roster who drew varying degrees of interest from BCS schools and other mid-majors.
Nigel Incubator-Jones Wrote:That's a hard and non-relevant question to answer. There are a number of players on the current roster who drew varying degrees of interest from BCS schools and other mid-majors.
Then you don't have to be apart of this thread!!!!!
We don't compete with local BCS schools for talent so this is a non question.
HuskiemobileMan Wrote:We don't compete with local BCS schools for talent so this is a non question.
If you can name even one superior recruit NIU has stolen from a Big 10 school or Notre Dame then I'm all ears. NIU is often in competition for recruits that are on the radarscope of the BCS schools (e.g., Eddie Adamski). But I can't recall one instance where we stole a primary target away from any BCS school. So yes professor, the answer is NIU does not compete with Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern, Notre Dame, etc. for recruits.
Nigel Incubator-Jones Wrote:HuskiemobileMan Wrote:We don't compete with local BCS schools for talent so this is a non question.
If you can name even one superior recruit NIU has stolen from a Big 10 school or Notre Dame then I'm all ears. NIU is often in competition for recruits that are on the radarscope of the BCS schools (e.g., Eddie Adamski). But I can't recall one instance where we stole a primary target away from any BCS school. So yes professor, the answer is NIU does not compete with Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern, Notre Dame, etc. for recruits.
Reading is a skill. I did not say we compete with the BCS schools. I am fully aware of our status as a MAC program. I just wanted to know which signee over the last decade or so had the most quality offers.
Alum, you don't have to stick your two cents in to every discussion. If you don't like it, go to another thread.
Well, I guess I don't understand the definition of "compete". If NIU has an offer to a athlete and another school has an offer to that same athlete, I see that as the two schools being in competition for that player. True this does not happen for the vast majority of our athletes, but it does happen.
Nigel Incubator-Jones Wrote:HuskiemobileMan Wrote:We don't compete with local BCS schools for talent so this is a non question.
If you can name even one superior recruit NIU has stolen from a Big 10 school or Notre Dame then I'm all ears. NIU is often in competition for recruits that are on the radarscope of the BCS schools (e.g., Eddie Adamski). But I can't recall one instance where we stole a primary target away from any BCS school. So yes professor, the answer is NIU does not compete with Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern, Notre Dame, etc. for recruits.
Stole away, like seriptitiously stole a recruite who was already committed to a BCS school? Then no one, but if you mean stole as in got one who was also offered by a BCS school, then Britt Davis, who is also the answer to the original question at the top of the thread.
It was either Britt or Melvin Rice. Adamski and English both had offers from Big 10 schools, but they were very late offers.
7 Wrote:It was either Britt or Melvin Rice. Adamski and English both had offers from Big 10 schools, but they were very late offers.
Jason Onyebuagu had an offer from Indiana.
seeds99 Wrote:7 Wrote:It was either Britt or Melvin Rice. Adamski and English both had offers from Big 10 schools, but they were very late offers.
Jason Onyebuagu had an offer from Indiana.
I think Orlando Moore had one from Michigan State.
QB/RB Justin Anderson had an offer from U of I
CB Mel Rice had offers from Akron & Ball St
LB Phil Brown had an offer from Ball St
OT Tim Mayerbock had an offer from Akron
DE Larry English had offers from Ball St, BGSU & CMU
WR Matt Simon had offers from Northwestern & Wyoming
QB/WR Britt Davis had an offer from Indiana
TE Brandon Beal had an offer from Ball St
MLB TJ Griffin had an offer from Cincinnati
I'm not even going to mention the idiocy of WR Orlando Moore or DB Bill Ikegwuonu
and OL/DT Ryan Tuggle had an offer from Northwestern
OL Jake Wertz had offers from CMU, Ball State and WMU. He's been struggling here, but is very happy with his choice.
It's virtually impossible to tell because few people here (if anybody) actually knows the depth of the interest from both the schools and kids. Also, the offers kids list aren't always accurate, and neither are Rivals or Scout's offer list in the kids' profiles. What kids have "official" offers is pretty darn impossible to figure out.
I'd also point out that I think a kid with offers from virtually every MAC program would be a more highly recruited kid than somebody with lukewarm interest from most of the MAC but with an offer from an Indiana type of program.
Ryan Diem had a late offer from Purdue.
The POINT being...with rare exception, NIU is not securing recruits who receive legitimate interest and therefore concrete offers from BCS schools. I place no value judgment on this reality. NIU rightfully competes with it's fellow MAC brethren and mid-majors from other conferences for talent. On the whole NIU does not compete with the Big 10 schools, Notre Dame or any other BCS school.
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Nigel Incubator-Jones Wrote:The POINT being...with rare exception, NIU is not securing recruits who receive legitimate interest and therefore concrete offers from BCS schools. I place no value judgment on this reality. NIU rightfully competes with it's fellow MAC brethren and mid-majors from other conferences for talent. On the whole NIU does not compete with the Big 10 schools, Notre Dame or any other BCS school.
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Actually, wrong subject. He asked who was the most heavily recruited. It's a relative term. Not an argument for competing with BCS schools.