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Postby davidpaul123 » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:36 am

Did anybody else expect a lot more commitments or near commitments from the Spring Game? I am surprised we havent seen more activity...
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Postby Cadillac » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:50 am

No, I'm surprised that we got the one that we did (and that gentleman wasn't able to make it! lol).

But really, we already have 4 commits, which is insane for us. So every new commit is a shock to me. It's a pleasant shock, but a shock none-the-less.

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Postby Cadillac » Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:27 pm

By Way of comparrison: In 2008, we didn't get our 4th recruit until October 10th. In 2009, we improved that to June 16th.

This year we tied it up on April 26th.

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Postby Stallion » Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:36 pm

when you recruit players that other teams want-then you sometimes have to wait on players to make up their minds. SMU isn't exactly at the top of the tottem-pole. Phil Bennett never had to worry about recruits that other teams wanted-he essentially never strongly attempted to recruit the Top 100 and very few Top 150 in the State of Texas. . Bennett basically recruited from the bottom half of the recruiting Class. Jones is offering and strongly recruiting about 5+ times more top players. When Rivals comes out with their 3 stars this will become more evident
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Postby 1983 Cotton Bowl » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:03 pm

Well put Stallion.

I find the comparison between 2008, 2009, and 2010 interesting. I take the fact that we have 4 commits before the end of April as a good thing. I hope I'm right about that. In any case, it seems that June and Co. are on a different recruiting level than we've seen in awhile. I hope so.
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Postby SMU21TCU10 » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:31 pm

i think OGuin is a 5.5 or 5.6. . Louie swope a 5.5 maybe 5.4? the others 5.3 . maybe one will be a 5.4
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Postby Stallion » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:55 pm

Other than O'Guinn I doubt our other commits will be a 3 stars. Where are the other offers to support 3 stars for the others? Haven't seen them. But that's not my point-when Rivals releases their 3 stars-even their early 3 stars it will be readily apparent to everyone that SMU is going after a much higher quality of recruit.
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Postby SMU2007 » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:28 pm

Cadillac wrote:By Way of comparrison: In 2008, we didn't get our 4th recruit until October 10th. In 2009, we improved that to June 16th.

This year we tied it up on April 26th.

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Lol, how pathetic is it that we got our 4th recruit in mid october? Ridiculous
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Postby SMU21TCU10 » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:43 pm

@ Stallion. Yeah especially at RB. seems like we have offered some good RB's
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Postby SMU2007 » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:03 am

would be nice to land any one of those guys.
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