BillySee58

He transferred in as a redshirt sophomore. Redshirted at UAB in 2012, played at Navarro in 2013 as a redshirt freshman, and played last year as a redshirt sophomore.

The 2014 class (current true sophomores and redshirt freshmen) was by far Mccarney's best class, IMO. Their offer lists collectively were better than players from any other class signed by Mccarney, and they've backed it up so far. They're jumping a lot of the players older than them who were not the same caliber recruits.

Why, exactly? If it's about Damarcus Smith then there's no reason for concern, considering none of the other fall JUCO enrollees are in the two-deep (Combs, Thompson, Grindle)

As long as Wilson stays healthy I don't think we have anything to worry about at RB. But his durability does cause some concern, especially if we're operating a lot from under center with his more-angular frame for a running back.

People, pleaseeee stop saying this. It's not like that at all. It's a completely different era now in 2015 than it was back then. There was no Twitter, 247, Facebook, or even MySpace when that was happening. There's a big difference between publicly showing two commits while actually having 15 and actually having only two commits.

I don't really see people judging the class itself, as much as they are criticizing the coaching staff for not being with the times and not connecting with recruits the way other HCs and staffs are.

Yeah, it's like an open admission that you can't win recruiting battles. Let's wait until the end of the cycle to get guys who are no longer being recruited by some of the other schools that offered them in the spring, since we can't get players when they are being actively recruited by their entire offer list. If you want to win on the field you have to win recruiting battles. There's no shortcut around that. No reason we can't get good early commits, hold onto them, and save some spots for a few guys that have offer lists with expired offers.

If Connor Means was starting we could maybe feel that way, but he's 4th and never even threatened Josh Greer in what was Means' second spring here.

3 out of the 5 scholarship QBs on our roster. Smith seemed to be an exception with his talent. Also I think it had to do in part to Chico being firmly on the hot seat after last season and wanting to go down with his type of QB and offense, not Mccarney's.

Yeah, couple, not few. Last class we hadn't offered any high school QBs by now (outside of the grayshirting Chumley) and we didn't end up getting any high school QBs. In the 2013 and 2014 classes we started offering high school QBs at the normal time of the spring evaluation period and going forward, and had our QB commits (Dajon and Connor Means) by June and July.

If that's the plan then it's an awful one. QB recruiting is extremely competitive. Most teams across the country have their QB commits by now. If we wait until now to start offering then we have a much more dwindled down pool of potential QBs than if we would've started offering back in February through April like everyone else. Most of what is left at this point are a few national prospects kids with no other offers.

Being honest, I would have to say less than 5% chance of offering. And that's not as much a knock on Kitna as it is that we've never offered a QB under 6'1" under Mccarney (only one under 6'2" and that was Mcnulty) and it's pretty apparent we aren't taking a QB this class, having not offered one yet. The coaches have had months to evaluate QBs for this class, so if it's August and they still haven't offered one then the current plan is not to take one.

No, some do. Think Tyler Haws the basketball player at BYU. Played in 09-10 with Jimmer Fredette, went on a mission for two years, then came back and played in 12-13, 13-14, and 14-15. Missions are the one exception I know of that can freeze an eligibility clock.

I always thought teams just bought the whole set (1-99) for future use anyways. Between walkons and practice squad guys we have pretty much every number 1-99 taken up every year either way, plus numbers used twice for one player on offense and one on defense.

I always thought the name plates were just a stitched on patch. Freshmen can only take the numbers that are available, which would be the numbers of the seniors and departed players anyways. And the numbers of the players vacated (i.e. #70 vacated by Sir Calvin switching to #48).

They couldn't use the ones of the seniors and other departed players? Or do they get to keep their jerseys?

Huh?

Wonder who it would be. I checked the local JUCOs to see if any of our signees double-signed with one of them but I didn't see it. Sure seemed like the coaches believed one wouldn't make it with us putting out a few late 2015 offers. All of our players are on the roster so that should be interesting to see. Thanks for posting!

Last camp weekend of the year. Should be a push for some commitments. Would really help this class, currently ranked 140th in the country per 247.

I wouldn't trust that website. They're awful at updating redshirts on the football roster as well. Wylie Reinhardt is listed as a junior, and was listed as a sophomore last year. He didn't play a snap as a freshman in 2013 and even admitted that his first game experience didn't come until towards the end of the year at UTEP. In short he's a Redshirt Sophomore now and was a redshirt freshman last year but was listed as neither. And he's not the only example.

IMO Boise State only is able to be consistently in the hunt as a G5 ground and pound team because they first built their program up to a destination one and perennial winner by throwing the ball like crazy. They established themselves in the early 2000s with a high-octane offense led by QBs like Ryan Dinwiddie and Jared Zabransky. Now they've had so much success for so long that they recruit on a level above all other G5 programs. They can land P5-caliber lineman and play like a P5 school because they're getting those players. If we could have prolonged success then maybe we could do that. But I think we need to do that first.

A lot going on here, but all I'll say is why would players with P5 offers be scared off here by a player listed as a QB on our roster and a player who has only played Tight End on the JV level and was only offered by other schools as a QB?

And every G5/non-AQ program that ever had big-time success/pushed for a BCS bowl in the modern era has been very effective passing the ball. G5s don't go undefeated by lining up in the I and pounding the ball. Maybe I'm asking for too much, but I want to see something like that from us and I think we're capable as a program.

Commits to Kansas State