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  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    QB: Ethan garbers
    RB: Sam Adams
    RB: Jay'veon (I wouldn't be shocked if he's 2020's Nick Bolton tho)
    WR: McMillan
    WR: Bryant (this is my doog pick. Barring urbs being at usc prior to the signing period I think we win this battle)
    OL: Hatchett, RR, Gaard (brb, jo)

    DT: I have no clue. There's not much out there and we're loaded here.
    OLB: McDonald (yawn)
    OLB: we need to land someone surprising here. My doog pick would be banks.
    ILB: fuck Bob gregory
    DB: covington, hector, esteen
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  • guntlove
    guntlove Member Posts: 784
    CallMeBigErn said:

    guntlove said:

    Woof said:

    This was a fun thread to revisit last year, so I'll take the first shot at making myself look stupid.

    It feels like we're going to take a bit of a smallish class, given we only have 10 scholarship seniors left on the roster by my count. There are a few potential early entry candidates, but I don't think any underclassmen are a lock to leave. I know we freed up a few scholarships from turnover, but there are a couple walkons (Ulofoshio and Fowler) who could potentially earn scholarships this year. I'll assume for now we're targeting 19 spots for the class. Current commits are bolded, guesses are in italics.

    QB - Garbers
    RB - Sunday
    RB - Adams
    TE - Redman
    TE - Yurosek
    WR - Odunze
    WR - McMillan
    OL - Memmelaar
    OL - Rosengarten
    OL - Hatchett
    OL - Persi

    OLB - Smalls
    DL/OLB - Shipley
    DL/OLB - Lolohea
    LB - Racanelli
    DB - Esteen
    DB - Paster
    DB - Hector
    DB - Covington

    I know I'm dooging on Smalls and McMillan, but there are always a couple high profile guys that the staff closes late. It would be nice if they finally closed a 5 star for once. Those in the know, let me know how realistic this is.

    Bob Gregory is so fucking terrible at his job
    I think he's pretty damn good at coaching the LB position. Everything else, not so much, but at least he's good at that.

    Is he though?

    My comment about him being 'terrible at his job' was more an assessment of his recruiting work this year... But, special teams was atrocious last year. So that's two out of three parts of his job that he's really not very fucking good at.

    ILB coaching wise...

    It would be totally unfair to pin Azeem's implosion on Bob Gregory... there was obviously a lot of outside/personal shit at play there. But Gregory certainly wasn't able to slow down the implosion in any way.

    Bob deserves credit for BBK... that dude got better every year, and was a machine his last year. But Beirria regressed his senior year. Kyler Manu's been here four years, and he's just as much a worthless lump of shit as he was when he got here. Beavers played pretty well when healthy... and you can't blame the dude's injuries on Gregory. Wellington seems poised for a solid season but he's been here three years and we've gotten very little consistent production out of him to this point. Gregory might be an okay coach... but nothing I've seen out of our ILBs over five years makes me thing he's pretty damn good.

    Out of his three major responsibilities....

    ILB coaching: okay, not bad but not great either.
    Special teams: below average.
    Recruiting: a fucking disaster.
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  • guntlove
    guntlove Member Posts: 784
    HillsboroDuck said:

    My turn

    QB: Ethan Garbers
    RB: Jay'Veon Sunday, Sam Adams II
    OL: Gaard Memmelaar, Roger Rosengarten, Geirean Hatchett, Marcus Henderson III
    TE: Ben Yurosek, Mark Swayeman
    WR: Jalen McMillan, Rome Odunze

    OLB: Sawyer Racanelli, Sa'Vell Smalls
    ILB: Cooper McDonald
    DL: Jake Shipley
    DB: Jacobe Covington, Ayden Hector, Makell Esteen, Trey Paster

    Beer me while I WOOF!

    I want to believe on Smalls, Hillsyboat... I just can't. Don't think it happens. Will be so fucking happy to be wrong though.

    Last year's class had a bunch of dudes I'd consider true 'level-up' talents when they signed: Bandes, Tuitele, Fautanu, McDuffie, Latu, Nacau, Heimuli, and Turner.

    IMO, the only ones that fall into that category in the above 2020 class (discounting smalls) would be: McMillan, Adams, and maybe Rosengarten or Hatchett.

    This class, if it's what we end up signing, would be significant step back... and a really fucking disappointing effort on the defensive side.
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  • guntlove
    guntlove Member Posts: 784
    HillsboroDuck said:

    guntlove said:

    HillsboroDuck said:

    My turn

    QB: Ethan Garbers
    RB: Jay'Veon Sunday, Sam Adams II
    OL: Gaard Memmelaar, Roger Rosengarten, Geirean Hatchett, Marcus Henderson III
    TE: Ben Yurosek, Mark Swayeman
    WR: Jalen McMillan, Rome Odunze

    OLB: Sawyer Racanelli, Sa'Vell Smalls
    ILB: Cooper McDonald
    DL: Jake Shipley
    DB: Jacobe Covington, Ayden Hector, Makell Esteen, Trey Paster

    Beer me while I WOOF!

    I want to believe on Smalls, Hillsyboat... I just can't. Don't think it happens. Will be so fucking happy to be wrong though.

    Last year's class had a bunch of dudes I'd consider true 'level-up' talents when they signed: Bandes, Tuitele, Fautanu, McDuffie, Latu, Nacau, Heimuli, and Turner.

    IMO, the only ones that fall into that category in the above 2020 class (discounting smalls) would be: McMillan, Adams, and maybe Rosengarten or Hatchett.

    This class, if it's what we end up signing, would be significant step back... and a really fucking disappointing effort on the defensive side.
    I’d put Redman in the leveling up category for sure and probably Covington but I agree overall it’s not inspiring.

    I’m pretty much in GSSNEM mode. Smalls saves the class, otherwise not exciting.
    *chinspiring.
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    Oh and Henderson would be leveling up. He’s the guy I’m least confident in on that list besides Smalls though.
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  • Ballz
    Ballz Member Posts: 4,735
    edited June 2019
    It won't be a super exciting class but it won't be a disappointment either. We need to load up on offense with better talent so that's what I think they're gonna do. We've had classes dominated by defense recently so it's time to really focus on this pussy ass offense. You look at the offensive class they're lining up and you are looking at a lot of big, physical, tough dudes at every position. Big receivers, big running backs, big TE's. All of them are just big. This class will make our offense bad ass and equal to the talent we already have on defense. It's a meat and potatoes class. Won't be flashy. But will easily be the best class in the Pac-12 in a down year for talent.
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,942
    We are still recruiting Johnny Wilson he’s gunna visit this summer hth. I think we get him.
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