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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-09-2019 03:04 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (07-09-2019 02:53 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: (07-09-2019 12:33 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: It is like mountaineering - you either summit or you don't. I want to summit - not say I've been to Base Camp Two three of the last six years.
In the context of a well conditioned, athletic type I would agree that summiting is preferable to Base Camp 2.
But in terms of NCAA athletics, Rice is not that paradigm of a fit mountaineer. More like the gimp-legged guy who has to take a wheelchair with him on the trek.
There are gimp legged, wheelchair bound mountaineers. All of them want to summit. Nobody wants to go halfway.
Yes there are. And, prior to the late 90's one could pretty much categorically state that another adjective-phrase described a huge, overwhelming number of that group --- dead and left as an ice block on a mountain somewhere.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-09-2019 12:33 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I worry that a 1-11 or 0-12 2019 campaign will cause some of those good 2020 commits to become former commits. That is one reason I worry about the 2019 campaign. I think we need to show progress NOW.
I share this concern. Rice's 2019 schedule isn't good for a program that is trying to build itself up and improve recruiting. It isn't a schedule a good program should fear, so its kind of sad and embarrassing that it feels that way with a CUSA schedule. But it is honestly how I feel (and I think a fair assessment of where Rice is relative to the rest of the programs). Getting 4 or 5 wins would feel like a huge overachievement relative to current expectations. And 4-5 wins in CUSA is not good.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-09-2019 05:54 PM)mrbig Wrote: (07-09-2019 12:33 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I worry that a 1-11 or 0-12 2019 campaign will cause some of those good 2020 commits to become former commits. That is one reason I worry about the 2019 campaign. I think we need to show progress NOW.
I share this concern. Rice's 2019 schedule isn't good for a program that is trying to build itself up and improve recruiting. It isn't a schedule a good program should fear, so its kind of sad and embarrassing that it feels that way with a CUSA schedule. But it is honestly how I feel (and I think a fair assessment of where Rice is relative to the rest of the programs). Getting 4 or 5 wins would feel like a huge overachievement relative to current expectations. And 4-5 wins in CUSA is not good.
Commits are not signees, and even signees do not always stay. We can sell them on being a part of a Rice resurgence, but it helps if we can show them some of that.
Our commit list will be under heavy counter-recruiting from September to signing day. The better our recruiting, the more poaching we will have to withstand.
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2019 07:06 PM by OptimisticOwl.)
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
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(07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
Wasn’t he also the kid who said Michigan and Stanford were the only schools he would consider over Rice? I’m too lazy to find the quote for someone who decommitted
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ExcitedOwl18
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh probably has a better CFB history than all but 15-20 teams. It’s also a pretty good school academically.
I’d plug in Oregon State or Kansas before Pitt.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-28-2019 09:48 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: (07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh probably has a better CFB history than all but 15-20 teams. It’s also a pretty good school academically.
I’d plug in Oregon State or Kansas before Pitt.
Pittsburgh won the ACC Coastal Division last season.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-28-2019 08:54 PM)cr11owl Wrote: (07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
Wasn’t he also the kid who said Michigan and Stanford were the only schools he would consider over Rice? I’m too lazy to find the quote for someone who decommitted
Good memory! Walt reported this on March 27:
(03-27-2019 08:17 AM)waltgreenberg Wrote: ... As for the kid from St.Louis, he played for Bloom at his final Summer camp at Stanford a couple years ago. Had offers from at least 5 P5 programs....and told Bloom on his last visit to St. Louis that the only school he'd even consider ahead of Rice would be Stanford, and at the time that included interest from Michigan.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
If one doesn't care about quality/reputation of degree, then this makes total sense.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(07-29-2019 01:33 AM)Intellectual_Brutality Wrote: (07-28-2019 07:35 PM)elw4796 Wrote: (07-28-2019 11:31 AM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote: Feeney, the OL from Missouri, just flipped to Indiana.
I understand most recruiting/transfers/etc. but I've gotta admit that I just don't understand this one. I fully understand flipping from a school like Rice to go to a school with a storied program or consistently good attendance or a Vandy/Northwestern type. But apart from playing in a good conference, Indiana is basically one of the biggest laughing stock power conference programs in the country. They're one of the very few schools that would confuse me along with Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and maybe one or two others. That said, hard to compete with the Big 10 allure and always a chance he just fell in love with the coaching staff.
If one doesn't care about quality/reputation of degree, then this makes total sense.
Recruits care about a variety of things in addition to the quality/reputation of degree - facilities, crowds, where their girl friend is going, coaches, distance from home, etc.
This off-season defection just shows how difficult it may be to hold on to our 2020 recruits if we suffer through an 0-12 or 1-11 campaign. Maybe Bloom cannot magically create wins. But he was supposed to be able to. If ever he can lead a team to wins that they were not supposed to get, now is the time.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Brady McBride, who was committed to us in the 2018 class before flipping to Memphis, has announced he’s heading to TxSt.
Would’ve been good to get another chance at him.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Inside line cy lakes has a move in from bronx, ny. 3-4 star kid committed to Rutgers, he just changed his commitment to UH. I highly suggest rice get on him. He can flat out play!!!
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
(08-13-2019 06:43 PM)nightowl24 Wrote: Inside line cy lakes has a move in from bronx, ny. 3-4 star kid committed to Rutgers, he just changed his commitment to UH. I highly suggest rice get on him. He can flat out play!!!
Your comments explain exactly why I have one thought about assembling a coaching staff. If I were coming in as a head coach, I would hire an OC, DC, and special teams coordinator that I trusted implicitly, and then fill out the staff with HS coaches, preferably at least some with connections to the university, and tell them to recruit, recruit, recruit. You obviously have your hand on the pulse of a lot that is going on in the HS ranks around Houston, and that information would be extremely valuable on a staff. Additionally, you know what it takes to make it at Rice. And I tend to believe that HS coaches are probably the best teachers at any level. University level is all about recruiting, pros are all about talent, HS coaches have to take what they get and make it work.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
I went to the Ridge Point-North Shore game last night at UH. North Shore's junior QB is really good - he seems destined to end up at Oklahoma. The Rice commit didn't get a chance to do much against NS's fast defense.
Ridge Point's starting QB is hurt (Pendergrass - a UH baseball commit). Interestingly, the back-up and new starter is BJ Emanuel (Bert's youngest kid - just a sophomore). I think he has potential to be a really good one. Already, he's taller than dad. He still has a lot of time to get better but he showed a good arm at times last night. For that being his first high school start, I thought he did fine - outside of a couple of bad timed throws. Mark my words, he'll be a big time recruit in two years.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Deon "Primetime" Sanders son is the quaterback at Texas Christian in Dallas. Primetim is the coach :). His son is just a Junior.
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Well I guess I'll plug my boy... Joshua McMillan II 125yds 5 catches 71yd td..73yds after the catch. 2gm avg of 24yds/ catch You can see his td on hudl. Start on him now, ijs.
Klein forest has a big wr #11 fast great hands physical blocker. We should look into him.
Khaliq Abdul mateen last year 2nd team all district wr moved to wr. Over 100/gm, 3tds this week, 1 last week. Avgs 23/ catch. Not hotly recruited, we should slide in on him.
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Safety we need to look into....Paetow's Kentrell Webb....inside line kid is a serious ball player...10 tackles last game...averaging 7 tackles a game through 2 games. oh and he's in pre-ap classes so i know for a fact academically he will be fine. i know a coach on the staff, i asked about him one sentence reply "he's a beast!!"
i'm giving you some gems that not everyone knows about...can't say you didn't know when they blow up and we on the outside looking in...ijs
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RE: 2020 Football Recruiting
Names to add to our
Houston area list...Cameron king... Christopher gilbreath... harold perkins....amir Turner
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