‘26 S Ricky Giles - SOC

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[Cooley]

Don't understand this offer. Giles is an average/slightly above average high school safety. I think the focus should continue to be on portal kids unless a high schooler is elite. Giles is not elite. Also not a standout basketball player as mentioned above. If he signs and sticks, he'd be a career reserve and special team contributor.  We need to attract higher profiled kids from the HS ranks.  Seems to be a high character kid though. 

[greenminer]

1 hour ago, Cooley said:

Don't understand this offer. Giles is an average/slightly above average high school safety. I think the focus should continue to be on portal kids unless a high schooler is elite. Giles is not elite. Also not a standout basketball player as mentioned above. If he signs and sticks, he'd be a career reserve and special team contributor.  We need to attract higher profiled kids from the HS ranks.  Seems to be a high character kid though. 

Appreciate the insight and agree about how we pick our HS recruits.

the potential upside is that he apparently has a Purdue offer, so a solid Power gig thinks highly enough of him, too, to bring him in. 

[Cooley]

4 hours ago, greenminer said:

Appreciate the insight and agree about how we pick our HS recruits.

the potential upside is that he apparently has a Purdue offer, so a solid Power gig thinks highly enough of him, too, to bring him in. 

It's never my intent to beat up on a kid publicly. I'd rather read both the pro's and con's of a kid; instead of the usual "superlatives" only of a recruit. (Funny how we never see a bad Hudl)  In fact, I generally discount about 25% of what I read about our recruit(s); depending on source.

I'm a little more familiar with Giles having followed his HS career at SOC. Purdue came by the school last year and offered damn near the whole defense when Ricky was a soph. (About 10 mid-high majors came by this week) As you may be aware, schools are reneging more and more on high school kids that they may have offered early. Not saying that they may have pulled their offer but I would not be surprised. Purdue has brought in 3 safeties during this portal period. (lost 2) with a total 31 transferring in.  Many of the top P4 programs generally don't lose this many. The movement of kids up and/down in the portal just proves to me that there isn't much difference (P4 vs P5) in talent outside of the top 20-30% of the roster.  

I'm ok with Giles but like to see more urgency to win now with portal kids than high school kids. (Unless they are "Elite)