recruiting roundtable

by scriptcomesfirst , Thursday, February 12, 2009, 19:59 (6088 days ago) @ Bingo

Get... Manti

Miss... Bonds. We had this guy until Nick Saban brought him to the house for breakfast. He would have made this class a large measure better because of his playing a "need" position. Runner up: Starling, for the reasons stated. I didn't wring my hands on Nixon as much only because we look strong for several OT's in '10, if we but play well on the field.

Sleeper... Zeke is too well regarded, so I'll go with Dan Fox. Another in the unique talent. To echo and expand upon Busco's point, we are building a very diverse talent pool on defense. The kind of defense that can go big, or fast, or big and fast in some cases.

I think last year's D-line haul softens this year's a bit, especially given we are in pole position with many top '10 d-line. Same caveat about playing well.

The Te'o announcement was pretty sweet. I had the IE chat open on one part of my screen watching the scroll of celebration, and live feed of Manti on the other part.