Shutout

[Diehard Pony]

Based on today's DMN recruiting lists we are set for a shutout on the state Top 100 (I see La-Lafayette; N. Mexico, Duke and Baylor, but no SMU). Also only 1 commitment from the area Top 100. Still in the hunt for 2 others, but way back in the pack on them.

Stallion, I presume this will be the lowest rated class of the Bennett era, and mid-level C-USA at best.

Your take??

[PK]

Willis makes for two in the Area Top 100. I also believe that the listing of schools a recruit is looking at is presented in alphabetical order so you can't use that as a judge of our position with a recruit.

[Stallion]

I don't think Bennett's 1st half year was anything to write home about but I'd say that there are probably 9-10 in the Gregg, Rossley and the last 2 Cavan classes which were pretty awful albeit under more difficult recruiting standards. We do have 5 3 star players which is probably better than the recruiting classes I mentioned for Gregg, Rossley and Cavan. The wildcard is the JCs who I really know very little about. The fact remains we won very few recruiting wars this year and basically we are relying on Bennett's evaluation of some kids who hopefully have been overlooked. The 3A sleepers look great on paper-and we're hoping they translate to Division 1A prospects.

[Pony Fan]

And we may not be finished yet.

[Diehard Pony]

They don't appear to be alphabetic to me. Check out Area #92 Aaron Carr. They list in this order UTEP, C. Mich, Iowa St., Toledo.

Regardless, I can't remember a recent year when SMU appeared less frequently on the State and Area Top 100.

[mustangbill67]

Since there are no C-USA commits on the TX top 100, are the other CUSA schools pulling in commits that are highly rated from other state lists and juco's? It does not seem that any non-BCS schools are getting the highly rated Texas or national recruits.

[PK]

Diehard Pony, you are correct, they are not in alphabetical order...my mistake.

After 0-12 and 3-8 seasons, it is not surprising that we have not gotten more area or state 100's. However, if you will notice, TCU hasn't done much better and their record was just a tad better than ours the last two years.

[Diehard Pony]

The State Top 100 includes a commitment to La-Lafayette, and one pending to either N.Mexico, La. Tech, Tx St, or Tulsa. In past years we have at least 1, and in some recent years as many as 2.

The Area Top 100 includes 3 to TCU; 3 to Tulsa; 2 to Tulane; 1 to Houston. In recent past years we have had multiple Area Top 100.

Again, never this much of a bare cupboard. With that said, I am not surprised. The same thing happened under the Cavan watch. Good recruiting the first couple of years, then a fast fade with no on field results.

[SMUFan]

If they were seniors at Texas high schools, I've heard it's conceivable that Clayton Cox (I know, he's not a Texan), Adrian Haywood, Victor Makinde and maybe Randall Goode would make some -- if not all -- state top 100 lists. Hard to say until we see them play.

[Stallion]

I wouldn't put too much stock on about 25-30 of the kids on the Area List since they probably were lucky to get any Division 1A offer. Focus on the offers not the schools listed with interest because many of the schools may not have offered. That being said our recruitment in DFW is unacceptable if we are going to build this program. We simply have to do better in DFW and that should be universally agreed.

[SWC2010]

I wouldn't put too much stock on about 25-30 of the kids on the Area List since they probably were lucky to get any Division 1A offer. Focus on the offers not the schools listed with interest because many of the schools may not have offered. That being said our recruitment in DFW is unacceptable if we are going to build this program. We simply have to do better in DFW and that should be universally agreed.

"Unacceptable" is correct. We must do better in the DFW area regardless of the player's rankings.

THAT SAID, ANY Top 100 list that does not list Mitch Enright near the top is a Bullsh## list & the writer(s) of it obviously does not know FB or doesn't bother watching HS games. This season, I watched the 2 Southlake games on TV as well as their playoff game against Lufkin. On pass plays, Mitch's guy never gets in the same zip code as the QB.

[Stampede]

exactly the point, Mustangbill67, made by Mustangswillwin when they asked Stallion for a report on the non BCS commits. Rivals' focus is who are the BCS schools recruiting and not who is in their database or who they were interested in yesterday. Things change overnight and as OU loses a top WR or they further evaluate a WR...they might just chose to offer the kid a ship and ....bam....up the stars cause OU wants him. I guess OU should be questioned because Iglesias was only recruited by non BCS schools. BTW, was Iglesias on any lists?