As I get more, I’ll post more. But enjoy these for now:
BISHOP Carroll offensive lineman Brayden Burris isn’t going to K-State. He was offered an option to gray-shirt two weeks ago, and the timing of the offer threw Burris. He hadn’t bothered taking visits elsewhere because he committed so early to K-State. The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Burris will likely surface at Iowa State.
JAMIE Newberg, Scout.com national football editor, was familiar with a few of the names in K-State’s recruiting class. “The kid from St. Petersburg (Javonta Boyd), the defensive tackle, is really good,” Newberg said. “(Tony) Gillispie is a good tackle. (Collin) Klein is a pretty good quarterback from Colorado.”
CALL me crazy, but I think K-State is getting a special player in Garden Plain’s Logan Dold. With some kids, you can just tell. Anyway, the subject of all of the junior college kids in this class came up, and he said that was a subject he and Ron Prince spoke about recently. “Mainly, the last two years, he’s been trying to catch up to his recruiting,” Dold said. “He’s trying to get the high school kids he has recruited ready. He’s been going for different linemen, more athletic offensive and defensive linemen — and the high school kids aren’t ready yet. He said hopefully he won’t have as many in the coming years.”
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LOL @ Ron Prince admitting (in a round about kind of way) that the HS linemen he recruited aren’t turning out to be any good after bad-mouthing Snyder’s late recruiting.
Don’t know why that is funny to you, or even if it is true, either that RP’s linemen aren’t turning out OR that he has bad mouthed Snyder’s late recruiting. It seems rather obvious that we were thin last year but that doesn’t mean that RP would be so short sighted or arrogant that he would criticize Bill Snyder. You must be a Hawk dude.
Does trouble me a little that at least two recruits who had been promised scholarships were asked to gray shirt late. I don’t know if that approach is common at other schools but it won’t contribute to warm fuzzy feelings in recruits in the future.
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He commented on the lack of depth in the program when he took over, now we have so little depthe we have to sign 20 JuCo guys, and the high school “talent” he signed is not panning out.
What Prince did to Brayden Burris was unethical and its becoming a habit for him. This is now the fourth or fifth time in just two years Prince gets a local high school kids to commit early so they don’t take any visits or entertain any recruiting offers from other schools and then pull the rug out from under them two weeks before signing day is unethical and a horrible practice. A high school kid would be crazy to commit to K-State
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