Perhaps the most significant outcome last night was the impact on recruiting. I see we picked up a pretty solid looking 3* OL who had a good list of offers. It's wonderful to see the impact that obviously superior coaching can have on recruiting. Now if we can just land a couple of DLs.
Recruiting impact
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Sad truth is we are going to have to take some chances on the DL prospects and hope we can develop them into great players. The kid in Ankeny is a prime example.
The DL
The coaching staff did a great job last night with the defense unit. I have been pretty consistent saying we need to bring in 3-4 JUCO DL and 3-4 HS DL prospects this fall.
I still think we need the numbers, but after seeing our play the last couple weeks, the staff may feel our best hope is to develop the kids on campus. IMO it still makes sense to bring in a couple JUCO kids- I'd love a 300+lb run stopper and a strong side DE in the 260/270lb range.
Bailey Johnson moving to NG seemed like a great move- he's quicker than Nate and his quickness will give the center something to think about. If Ruempolhamer and Alburitis hit the weight room hard in the off season they could be solid on the interior. Add to that Mansfield, Black and Laing. The later 2 might be in the dog house, but I hope they can have an impact with a strong off season. I also like the idea of Mansfield (a former wrestler) in the middle. If he can get up to the 270/280 range- he might be a solid interior player.
That would give another year for McDonough, Moore and Woods to develop and contribute big minutes in 2011.
The coaching staff did a great job last night with the defense unit. I have been pretty consistent saying we need to bring in 3-4 JUCO DL and 3-4 HS DL prospects this fall.
I still think we need the numbers, but after seeing our play the last couple weeks, the staff may feel our best hope is to develop the kids on campus. IMO it still makes sense to bring in a couple JUCO kids- I'd love a 300+lb run stopper and a strong side DE in the 260/270lb range.
Bailey Johnson moving to NG seemed like a great move- he's quicker than Nate and his quickness will give the center something to think about. If Ruempolhamer and Alburitis hit the weight room hard in the off season they could be solid on the interior. Add to that Mansfield, Black and Laing. The later 2 might be in the dog house, but I hope they can have an impact with a strong off season. I also like the idea of Mansfield (a former wrestler) in the middle. If he can get up to the 270/280 range- he might be a solid interior player.
That would give another year for McDonough, Moore and Woods to develop and contribute big minutes in 2011.
Anybody have the complete list of who visited this past weekend? Based on what I've heard/read, the recruits were all pretty impressed with what they saw.
No doubt this was a big weekend for our recruiting. We clearly got one commitment but we also impressed the others that were here. We had 8 official visitors all of which we are really big on. In my eyes the two biggest visitors were Jeremiah George and Floyd Mattison both linebackers. Here's some links...if we land both of these guys consider it huge.
Floyd Mattison
Floyd Mattison is a Freak of a Physical Specimen!
Floyd Mattison - Yahoo! Sports
Jeremiah George
Jeremiah George - Yahoo! Sports
Jeremiah George's Page - National Underclassmen Combine Football Network
I would love to see us close the deal with those two. They would definitely improve the team's speed.
Thanks. Mattison must be the kid referred to on CR that might have "flipped" his committment after this weekend....would love that speed on our the team.
To reflect though, lets look at our DC and consider his past Development projects:
This is what he started with...
George Selvie - Yahoo! Sports
This is what he is now....
http://www.gousfbulls.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=216901
To me, our staff is in place and i feel more then comfortable when i hear someone say "We have to develop players" i could not make that same statement a year ago.....
Do they let these guys ride w/ the team to the stadium? I assume these are the guys that got out of the buses for the spirit walk. A very athletic looking group that had some type of pass hanging around their necks. Very impressive from the curb anyway.
I know this has been talked about many times on here but do we realistically have a player that could switch from OL to DL??? Somebody that is currently on the roster, not a potential recruit.
not sure if this is what you're looking for but Aaron Moore was recruited as an OL but I'm pretty sure we're going to use him on the DL.
Ah my favorite thing that ISU fans do. A coach did it at a prior school and thus is going to do it here. I too hope this is true!
I hope we can find a juco guy or somebody to clog the middle on the DL. As for the LB recruits, I'm very happy that we have Knott and Klein that have size with potential guys like George and Mattison bringing speed on the outside.
PS---How about the year Fred Garrin is having. Probably the biggest bright spot of the team so far this year.
PS---How about the year Fred Garrin is having. Probably the biggest bright spot of the team so far this year.
I'm more worried about the DE position then the DT position to be honest but I wouldn't mind a solid DT coming in like Rubin a couple years back.
Also I don't know if anybody else saw this but our LB commit Hubert just rose to a 3 star and ranked as the 30 something best MLB in the country
