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So I think we get...
-Dargan
-Dungy
-Thompkins
-Huff
-(And a surprise commit from either Easley, Potoae, Owa, King, Heimuli, or Werner)

Did Thompkins even visit?

The only one that I am remotely confident about is Dargan. I am still holding out hope for Jefferson. Everyone else is a mystery to me.

I definitely don't see Jefferson coming here. I mean think about it. We are absolutely STACKED with young DB's and WR's, plus were bringing in tons more in this recruiting class

Dargan
Huff
Dungy
A couple of unknown DT's...

Sounds about right...

At this point you could probably add Easley and Potoae into that "surprise" category.

I get the feeling we probably have somewhere between a 10% and 20% chance for each. Not great, but to get that close on that many guys, you never know, one could surprise us like Ngata did.

Also, I think it's likely if not almost certain that we'll have somewhere between 1 and 3 guys who all of us just go "who the hell is that?!?!?".

As Oregon showed w/ Hawkins last year, they value their summer camp (Hawkins was the MVP) more than they value recruiting site star rankings. Lets all just HOPE that some of those complete jaw droppers are some sleeper big boy DLmen, cuz we're hurtin!

And for those that say that we'd be better off just saving the scholarships for next year -- keep in mind that a hugely important part of the success of any team is their practices. If we don't have enough quality bodies to practice against, we won't be able to be as prepared come Saturday (or the occasional Thursday). Hard to imagine, but for this reason, I'd rather we use our remaining slots on 1, 2 and even 0 star players (if our coaches feel good about them) so we can get them in there and practicing. Of 80 scholarship athletes, only 22 can start. Depth is about more than who's your backup in the case of emergency, and with our current lack of depth and losses on the DLine, the guys who were our practice stars on DL last year, will become the guys who are our rotation players this year... those spots NEED to be filled!

TriDuck wrote:I definitely don't see Jefferson coming here. I mean think about it. We are absolutely STACKED with young DB's and WR's, plus were bringing in tons more in this recruiting class

He was high on us at one point, knowing our depth chart. I would be less surprised to see Jefferson commit than most of the recruits left on the board. Adding Zona to his list of potential schools made me think that UCLA isn't such a sure thing. Who knows though.... Wednesday should be entertaining.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but since we had the three players recently leave the team, do we now have about 6 shcollies available?

Dungy, Dargan, and Huff seem to have a great chance of being ducks on Wednesday.

Outside of that, I honestly don't know. I hope Bryant!

And Triduck, I don't think the # of scholarships should be a concern, but 6-7 sounds about right.

Bryant
Dargan
Dungy
Huff
A surprise or two

I do not see any surprises this year unless it is people we expect to commit that do not i.e McCain. I hope I am wrong would love to get Owa and/or Easley but realistically just do not see it happening. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised. Can you imagine getting both Easley and Owa.. that would be awesome but highly unlikely.

I had a dream last night Easley committed. Plus, after reading the last King thread, I bet Chip forgives, and King becomes a Duck.

I'm thinking,
Dargan
Huff
Bryant
and Heimuli (The NEXT Ngata )

freedjr wrote:I had a dream last night Easley committed. Plus, after reading the last King thread, I bet Chip forgives, and King becomes a Duck.

I am guessing that there is at least a .000001% chance that you are correct.

freedjr wrote:I had a dream last night Easley committed. Plus, after reading the last King thread, I bet Chip forgives, and King becomes a Duck.

Lol, you know dreams never come true, right?

UOducksTK1 wrote:

freedjr wrote:I had a dream last night Easley committed. Plus, after reading the last King thread, I bet Chip forgives, and King becomes a Duck.

Lol, you know dreams never come true, right?

Are you hinting at something there, TK?