2018 Recruiting - Football

I would like to sign 5 now and have them all play in the Bowl Game

 

this would be interesting. everyone knows this about Tanner McKee, but one site sneaks it out at a commitment? that's weird.

 

OK, here we go -- Chip confirms (is this enough confirmation?)
When those guys come back, they usually take a RS year to regain the weight
So, if true, its effectively more like 2021 for him
That's quite a letdown. He might be a pretty salty 21 year old by the time he is starting, but no help for these next two seasons.
I consulted the Magic-8 Ball about this -- it said "Cloudy to more JUCOs"

 

Well, if all goes to plan, if there is a plan, and TH continues to recruit and develop good/great talent, by 2021, Angilau will be part of the team that is hopefully performing on a much higher level and competing for championships, not merely showing up for post game juice boxes and snacks....the O has to improve to get where we hope to be though.

 

3 more years of bad football feels like eternity

 

Anybody hear anything from Rising lately?

 

One of the JUCO OLs

 

That all seems good. I thought Chip might make a run at Rising
Both QBs are expected to sign early

 

For the moment, looks like Anthony Cook leaning our way over LSU (and tOSU)
He will announce in a week or so

 

It does. After sitting through particularly the last couple of Akers years at HC, the McWilliams' (can't find our own butts with both hands in a rainstorm) years, most of Mackovic's tenure, Mack's last 4, the truly awful 3 season with CS, I have noticed a sort of pattern in that, we go from very good/great to 7-9 years of "meh" or worse with a few "what the bloody hell is this crap?" type seasons. Since the 13-1 2009 NC appearance season, the program has been mostly down (3 mediocre winning seasons, 4 losing seasons, 1 currently at breakeven). Someone check my math on that. If the pattern holds, an up tick should be coming soon. May take a couple of more years, there are no guarantees, and we will see how the talent TH has recruited can develop. So, hopefully this pseudo trend will begin in 2018 & 2019, with the team being much improved in terms of W-L record, 2020 being more like "hey! look at this!", and in 2021/2022 we plant the flag (in Baker Mayfield's ***, but that's a different story). Might happen, might not.

 

A poster on another site who lives in Salt Lake City and claims to know the family, posted that Junior Angilau has not yet decided whether he’ll do his mission or not. He said that Angilau has reached out to some other Mormon athletes, some that have done a mission and some that haven’t, to get more information on his decision.

 

The cookie game is back

 

Most ESPN 300 commits after No. 200 Angilau pledged to Texas

Longhorns 17
tOSU 14
Miami 13
Penn St 10
Bama and Georgia 9
Auburn and Oregon 8
ou sucks, NotreDame, Clemson and LSU 7

I think all of our commits are on this list but Hobbs and Dicker the Kicker

 

Craig Williams told us he is not interested in playing slot WR
We are still offering him as a RB
He probably will not commit until NSD

 

quick edit of the group foto

 

Mom encouraging recruits to sign early

 

Who's next? I think we will get another JUCO OL commit pretty soon and then we get Anthony Cook.

 

Sounds like JUCO OL Levon Livingston of Navarro College will be visiting this weekend.

 

Like the news on Cook. What about Waddle?

 

I take that as good news.

 

I dont think we will land him

 

Ingram on the cover

 

Saban just did his in-home with Vernon Jackson yesterday and made a push for him to sign early. We are supposed to still be after him hard as well. I like him but battling the devil is never easy.

 

Even though JUCO OL Banks is currently committed to Ark, it looks like a battle between us and Florida. He will visit us then Gator back-to-back, then make a decision. He is originally from Pensacola.

 

It is if you're in a fiddling contest.

 

Charlie Daniels is your man...

 

To be fair Charlie was only the narrator, not the fiddler