College Football Thread --Countdown to Kickoff

[DanS]

Hot off the presses. Notre Dame snagged Jon Tenuta as its new linebacker/assistant head coach. Replacing Bill Lewis, who led the defensive backs, who is retiring from coaching. Corwin Brown, Defensive Coordinator, probably will coach defensive backs now as well.

One of these years, ND's D is going to be lights out.

ND's fan boards are rife with anger that rivals.com let the cat out of the bag before NSD.

The old thread...

College Football Thread -- What will we do in the offseason?

[H Tower]

When are ND fans not rife with anger?

The big question now is where is that QB out of Pennsylvania going to land? Penn Stat, Mich, tOSU or Oregon are the schools I heard mentioned yesterday

[-Jrabbit]

TOWER SIGHTING!!!
How's it going, man?

Ron Zook seems to think that Illinois had a good recruiting year. Even stole a skill position player from Cleveland away from OSU...

[Imran Siddiqui]

It seems that all the sites agree that Alabama had the best day.

Notre Dame and Miami (FL) also had great days.

[DanS]

It's anybody's guess where Pryor is going. Last I heard, Michigan is probably out of it. Oregon probably was never in it.

While there's no law that you have to sign on the first date allowed, and it might make sense sometimes to wait a little, it does seem he likes he's a media whore.

[DanS]

Alabama and Miami had great days, but each will only be able to have 28 of those 33 signees on their roster.

In the end, I rather like all of Notre Dame's class. Amazing that Weis kept it all together and added to it through this season.

Tennessee, Penn State, and Michigan State really crapped the bed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by DanS
Alabama and Miami had great days, but each will only be able to have 28 of those 33 signees on their roster.

Well, they can "greyshirt" them (which is something I just learned yesterday.

Tennessee, Penn State, and Michigan State really crapped the bed.

Well if Penn State lands Pryor, they'll have done well.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, someone on another forum I'm on complied the Scout and Rivals rankings on incoming classes.

Rivals Rankings:

1 Alabama 32 3 19 8 3.72 2,836
2 Notre Dame 23 3 16 4 3.96 2,744
3 Florida 22 4 12 4 3.82 2,600
4 Miami 33 2 15 8 3.33 2,467
5 Oklahoma 21 3 12 5 3.81 2,422
6 Georgia 24 2 13 8 3.67 2,321
7 USC 19 2 13 4 3.89 2,312
8 Florida State 30 2 13 8 3.33 2,251
9 Ohio State 19 3 9 7 3.79 2,229
10 Michigan 24 0 17 5 3.63 2,215
11 LSU 26 2 11 13 3.58 2,134
12 Clemson 26 1 13 8 3.42 2,113
13 UCLA 23 0 12 11 3.52 1,924
14 Texas 20 0 12 7 3.55 1,919
15 Colorado 21 1 7 9 3.24 1,510
16 Texas A&M 24 0 7 14 3.17 1,482
17 Minnesota 30 0 7 18 3.07 1,395
18 Virginia Tech 31 0 6 22 3.10 1,375
19 Oregon 19 0 8 9 3.32 1,359
20 Auburn 28 2 4 16 3.07 1,357
21 Arizona State 27 0 6 19 3.15 1,328
22 South Carolina 22 0 6 14 3.18 1,322
23 Illinois 28 0 6 16 3.00 1,293
24 Ole Miss 32 1 3 15 2.75 1,276
25 Washington 26 0 5 14 2.92 1,255

Scout Rankings:

1. Alabama 33 SEC 4963 6 3 17 10 13 19 1 32 1 3.61 1.
2. Notre Dame 23 I-A Ind 4604 7 4 14 5 11 12 0 23 0 3.96 2.
3. Miami (Fl) 33 ACC 4579 7 4 7 18 14 18 1 32 1 3.33 3.
4. Georgia 23 SEC 4121 4 3 10 10 11 11 1 23 0 3.70 4.
5. Florida State 31 ACC 3995 3 3 10 11 19 12 0 28 3 3.29 5.
6. LSU 26 SEC 3915 2 1 11 14 15 11 0 26 0 3.50 6.
7. Ohio State 19 Big Ten 3911 8 5 7 6 9 9 1 19 0 3.84 7.
8. Michigan 24 Big Ten 3844 4 1 13 8 15 9 0 24 0 3.54 8.
9. UCLA 23 Pac-10 3811 4 2 11 10 13 9 1 22 1 3.65 9.
10. Clemson 26 ACC 3743 3 2 9 11 13 11 2 25 1 3.35 10.
11. Florida 22 SEC 3713 4 4 8 9 9 12 1 20 2 3.68 11.
12. Oklahoma 21 Big 12 3691 8 3 11 6 10 10 1 18 3 3.76 12.
13. USC 18 Pac-10 3606 8 4 8 5 10 8 0 18 0 3.83 13.
14. Washington 26 Pac-10 3535 2 1 7 14 16 10 0 26 0 3.19 14.
15. Texas A&M 25 Big 12 3499 0 0 9 12 11 13 1 24 1 3.20 15.
16. Arizona State 28 Pac-10 3469 2 0 8 19 15 13 0 23 5 3.25 16.
17. Texas 20 Big 12 3460 5 2 11 6 9 10 1 20 0 3.70 17.
18. Illinois 28 Big Ten 3217 1 0 6 14 15 13 0 27 1 2.93 18.
19. Auburn 29 SEC 3151 0 1 4 14 15 14 0 27 2 2.86 19.
20. Virginia Tech 32 ACC 3095 2 0 5 16 16 16 0 32 0 2.81 20.
21. Nebraska 28 Big 12 2994 1 1 2 16 15 13 0 26 2 2.79 21.
22. Boston College 29 ACC 2783 0 0 2 13 15 13 1 28 1 2.55 22.
23. Arkansas 25 SEC 2775 1 0 3 14 16 9 0 25 0 2.80 23.
24. Oregon 20 Pac-10 2731 0 1 6 12 12 8 0 15 5 3.35 24.
25. Pittsburgh 19 Big East 2668 3 3 4 9 12 6 1 17 2 3.37 25

[DanS]

What with tuition at $35,000 per annum, I doubt Miami will have many grayshirts. Bama might be a different story -- don't know the tuition there.

[-Jrabbit]

Miami has a VERY well-funded academic scholarship program. If you're at all above average academically, you can cut that number in half, or even by 3/4 if you're strong. And I'm guessing the athletic dept. knows how to play that game very well.

[DanS]

I think that's against the rules, but in any event I heard that Miami had 9 early entry players, meaning that they could be applied to last year's limit as far as signings go. Also, apparently a grayshirt only needs to be for one semester.

I guess it's more doable than I considered.

[snoopy369]

I don't see how it could be against the rules for a football player to earn an academic scholarship (if legitimate). Now, I'd assume it's probably not legit, but ...

If it's against the rules for an actual football player to be so, perhaps they could offer them a 'redshirt' year where they're not on the team but they can try out and practice for next year, to the bottom ten or so signees...

[SlowwHand]

Against the rules. That's always stopped Miami in their tracks, hasn't it?

[-Jrabbit]

Just as much as it stops the rest of the Southern Major College Cabal, I'm sure.

[PLATO]

Sadly, my beloved Vols had a dismal year on the recruiting front.

The loss of Cutcliffe was bad enough, but losing Trooper Taylor was the body blow to the class.

Still, the players we got have a lot of potential...they will just need the redshirt year to be a very productive one in the weight room.

The part that really sucks is that the hated Tide pulled out one of their best classes in recent memory. Makes one wonder just how many pickup trucks Saban had to spring for this year...