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Post by huisrealgood on Jan 29, 2011 18:30:08 GMT -5
Funny stuff...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As reported by the Bloomington (Ind.) newspaper earlier this week.....new Indiana head coach Kevin Wilson a day after he was hired....'family went home. He was staying in the center part of McNutt Center in a private suite. He had gone out for beer and pizza and got back after mid-night. Entered wrong door and wandered around McNutt for 45 min trying to find his room. He ran into a couple of RA's who were dealing with a drinking problem. Tried to get directions - got impatient and said a couple of things out of line.
Why the heck is IU housing their new head coach in a dorm? Pathetic.
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Post by Kyle Feller on Jan 29, 2011 18:37:23 GMT -5
There is apparently a private wing in the building with condos/apartments........
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Post by huisrealgood on Jan 29, 2011 18:41:33 GMT -5
Still... put the guy up in a hotel. Illinois has a 4-star hotel on campus that they use for stuff like this.
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Post by Kyle Feller on Jan 29, 2011 22:58:57 GMT -5
Agreed
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Post by rubalamp on Jan 30, 2011 10:50:48 GMT -5
I have heard that IU sometimes has a high rate of RAs who don't care about being RAs so to speak...
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Post by Kyle Feller on Jan 30, 2011 21:23:27 GMT -5
Indiana picked up FIVE commitments today:
6'6" 285LB Offensive Lineman Peyton Eckert from Illinois 6'3" 250LB Defensive End Bobby Richardson from Florida 6'5" 300LB Offensive Lineman Gregory Lewis from Florida 6'4" 275LB Offensive Lineman David Kaminski from Ohio 6'2" 260LB Defensive Lineman Adarius Rayner from Florida
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Post by Loucks on Jan 30, 2011 23:00:13 GMT -5
Eckert: 2-star, offers from UConn, Central Michigan, Eastern Illinois, Western Michigan Richardson - unranked, offers from Ball State, Florida Atlantic, Iowa State, and Youngstown State Lewis - 2-star, offers from UMass, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International Kaminski - unranked, Ball State, Bowling Green, Duke, Toledo Rayner - unranked, offers from Colorado State, Iowa State
I think these are a reach but some times this late in the process you just need bodies.
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Post by huisrealgood on Jan 31, 2011 0:56:37 GMT -5
That Eckert kid could actually be a solid kid down the road. Late bloomer that Illinois was looking at but they were full up and didn't let him take an official visit. Indiana could have a sleeper there. I don't know about any of the others, but recruiting is a funny thing sometimes. Sometimes kids pan out that no one would've suspected. However, most 2-star kids end up being two-star performers.
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Post by cowboy on Jan 31, 2011 8:09:28 GMT -5
Eckert: 2-star, offers from UConn, Central Michigan, Eastern Illinois, Western Michigan Richardson - unranked, offers from Ball State, Florida Atlantic, Iowa State, and Youngstown State Lewis - 2-star, offers from UMass, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International Kaminski - unranked, Ball State, Bowling Green, Duke, Toledo Rayner - unranked, offers from Colorado State, Iowa State I think these are a reach but some times this late in the process you just need bodies. or, as i have said many times, like TCU, they just know how to recruit the right kids (not pay attention to the so-called analysts, and will coach these kids into football players
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Post by Kyle Feller on Jan 31, 2011 8:42:31 GMT -5
Kevin Wilson has made it a point to recruit kids that he thinks are late bloomers with high ceilings..he actually passed on a handful of 3-Star kids that were already committed to Indiana to open up some scholarships.
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Post by Kyle Feller on Jan 31, 2011 10:21:36 GMT -5
Looks like the Hoosiers are closing in on 6'7" 275LB offensive lineman Mike McQueen from Ohio.
McQueen visited over the weekend.....basically he's deciding between Indiana and West Virginia.
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Post by huisrealgood on Jan 31, 2011 11:07:22 GMT -5
Eckert: 2-star, offers from UConn, Central Michigan, Eastern Illinois, Western Michigan Richardson - unranked, offers from Ball State, Florida Atlantic, Iowa State, and Youngstown State Lewis - 2-star, offers from UMass, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International Kaminski - unranked, Ball State, Bowling Green, Duke, Toledo Rayner - unranked, offers from Colorado State, Iowa State I think these are a reach but some times this late in the process you just need bodies. or, as i have said many times, like TCU, they just know how to recruit the right kids (not pay attention to the so-called analysts, and will coach these kids into football players Cowboy you make it sound like TCU gets a bunch of unranked kids and coaches them up into All-Americans. TCU's class this year consists of 2 4-stars, 22 3-stars, and one 2-star (which is a kicker... kickers rarely get above 2-stars). That's good talent. Add in the fact that most of those kids are from football-crazed Texas and it's easy to see why they're successful. I'll take a 3-star kid from Texas over a 4-star from the Midwest most of the time. There's a lot of good football players to come out of that place. Too many for Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, and the likes to get all of them.
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Post by Loucks on Jan 31, 2011 12:38:50 GMT -5
I agree with HIRG. TCU has a top-25 class this year which includes kids that spurned the SEC to go to TCU. When the only 2-star kid you have is a kicker, you know you're competing towards the upper-echelon of recruiting. They didn't have any kids under 3-star recruits last year either.
Notre Dame has a couple of 2-star recruits in DE Bruce Heggie (from last year's class), LS Jordan Cowart (2009 class), TE Jake Golic (2009 class), and K Nick Tausch (2009 class) and none of them saw any playing time this year. All are behind guys that were 3-star and 4-star recruits. The star rankings aren't fool proof and I think we can get too hung up on them at times. But, they are usually decent indicators of potential.
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Post by cowboy on Jan 31, 2011 13:42:59 GMT -5
when was TCU ever in the top 25 before? they are getting some bounce from going undefeated but they've built a program on coaching and not athletes--how many TCU grads in the NFL? 13. ND has 28.
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Post by Loucks on Jan 31, 2011 14:08:04 GMT -5
when was TCU ever in the top 25 before? they are getting some bounce from going undefeated but they've built a program on coaching and not athletes--how many TCU grads in the NFL? 13. ND has 28. They had a small class last year (only 18 commits) so that will kill you in the composite rankings. ND is only going to take 18-19 next year and they'll face the same problem in the rankings. It's rare to see a class with under 20 commits be in the top 20 (only the OSU's, Nebraska's, and USC's can pull that off). But, if you go by the average star rankings, they were #30 on Rivals.com.
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