Mention in Sports Illustrated

[Lawgrad]

Looks like UCLA is having an awful recruiting year, especially when we are killing them in their own back yard.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/b ... aaf-311918

[RGV Pony]

UCLA's best recruiter has been in Las Cruces the last two or three years. Neuheisel shouldve kept Walker on board

[Lawgrad]

Slick Rick is definitely leaving a mess for the next head coach to clean up, along with a decided lack of talent to turn things around quickly. Thank God we didn't go down the road years ago to hire him.

[ponyte]

And to think, UCLA kicked UT's behind . Make you wonder about the UT recruiting classs.

[gostangs]

Not really. Their recruiting class wont show up on the field for a year or two.

[StallionsModelT]

Texas' class is downright sick. Even with a 5-7 season and massive coaching changes, they're going to be #1 or #2 nationally when all is said and done. The RB from Cibolo, TX Malcolm Brown is considered the best RB out of Texas since Peterson.

[soccermom]

Texas' class is downright sick. Even with a 5-7 season and massive coaching changes, they're going to be #1 or #2 nationally when all is said and done. The RB from Cibolo, TX Malcolm Brown is considered the best RB out of Texas since Peterson.

UGH...........this makes me SICK!!!!!!!!

[mathman]

Texas recruiting class was in the top 5 in 4 of the last 5 years. 2006-2010. What happened to them last year on the field?

[HB Pony Dad]

However USC is still packing them in...

Kiffin skirting recruiting sanctions as USC continues appeals process

"People questioned whether Pete Carroll was spending the proper amount of time doing evaluations during his latter time at USC," said Allen Wallace, national recruiting editor for Scout.com. "Lane said he was surprised at the lack of talent on the team [when he returned]. They didn't have enough players in the secondary. They were constantly giving up big plays."

For those reasons, Wallace agrees with the strategy to load up in the coming class, sanctions be damned.

"If you're going to go into the grave, go into the grave as healthy as possible," Wallace said. "They will have sacrificed a quicker recovery, but he's saying, OK, if we're really going to lose 30 scholarships, we're going to change the face of the team as quickly as we can."

This is almost too confusing to understand, but it appears there is a method in Kiffin's madness.

[HB Pony Dad]

UCLA out-recruited by SMU

[Stallion]

the problem is that if the sanctions aren't reduced they still face a 3 year probation-just extending it. Personally, I think its better for USC to get it past you as soon as possible-but that may not be best for the Head Coach

[The PonyGrad]

UCLA out-recruited by SMU

And that is just in California!

[stc9]

Randy Shannon will make a world of difference in recruiting at UCLA. He brought in tons of talent to the "U". He was not a great head coach - think PB. He could recruit like a champ, but the kids weren't getting his X's and O's. Everything I heard about him was that he was a terrific Coordinator - it just didn't translate into the HC job.