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2018 Signing Day Thread

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Alright, 2018 signing day is almost here. Thread is going up a bit early.

Later this week I will do a breakdown of each player and give out my ratings.

With this extra time, can you guys help point out which players are expected to move positions once at OSU? This will help me in analyzing their film and keep everyone in the loop.

Go Beavs!

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    Sorry to go OT so soon, but the little guy got the attention of the PAC12 rulers…….and a reprimand!

    The Pac-12 Conference on Tuesday reprimanded Oregon State women’s basketball coach Scott Rueck for his comments about the officiating in last week’s home loss to Stanford.
    Following the game, Rueck was asked whether his reaction was meant to motivate his team after its slow start, or register his disagreement with officials on Gulich’s foul.
    “I’m trying to protect my post player from getting bad calls made against her,” Rueck said. “I see it week after week.”

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    Expecting a pretty boring no frills signing day tomorrow, which is probably a good sign that the current commits are all pretty solid and not likely to flip. Kindof nice to not have to worry. I don’t expect Hunt to be a Beav, so if he is, it will be a bonus.
    Maybe a walkon or 2 will announce, but otherwise there likely won’t be any surprises.

    What might be more entertaining is watching Oregon strike out on most of their high profile signing day decision guys and then scramble to replace them by trying to make some last minute flips of lower profile guys, but somehow Nemec will spin it as stellar recruiting.

    For example, I think that is exactly what’s happening here:
    https://twitter.com/YoungLeaf24/status/961138666801377280

    I also think Oregon is working on Hunt, fwiw.

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  6. Per his bio on osubeavers.comoin the signing day page, Semisi Saluni is going on a two year LDS mission after he graduates HS. So we won’t see him for 2 years or at all when he comes back off his mission.

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      • I didn’t get the feeling he was recruited that hard. The waste of resources would be using one of the 25 annual signings on someone we know won’t be enrolled. That’s an arbitrary self-reduction.

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        • Think the resources involved verifying academics were in order, 1 in home visit, some phone calls/texts and that’s about it. Upside, boosts arbitrary class ranking with an extra 3* player. Doesnt count against the 25 cap

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    • Why would he spend two years developing the requisite skills to be somewhat competent as a back-up P5 QB when he can probably contribute his first year as a LB?

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    • Projects better at lb for next level, so it’s a wiser focus for him.

      Like Jack says, it would probably end up being a 2 year waste of his life.

      And I imagine if on field performance improves as we all hope this year, we land a more prototypical qb in this next class that then passes him up.

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  11. Rumor that Jefferson was getting lots of attention from USC, and they were trying to flip him. I think he’ll be a good one.

    Peterson at UW tells recruits that if they commit, they better mean it. No more visits, no waffling. I think CJS is applying the same philosophy. It might mean recruits commit later, but they are solid once they do.

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    • I really like Jefferson. He’s an old school back. I’m still not sure what everyone thought they saw in Henry. I’ll take a Jefferson every year.

      I’m also super excited to see AP get the ball this year and to have the redshirts come off the young O-linemen. We should have meat to spare, albeit still somewhat inexperienced. I expect the O-line and the running game to find their stride about three or four games into the season. I’m not sure Baylor or Tyler contribute much at RB, though.

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  17. I think I read on here, maybe from Angry, speculation about Jonathan Smith having been hired long before the November 29th announcement.

    It’s interesting, Bradley Bickler, Keishon Dawkins and Craig Francios all verballed right in a row in late October/early November and none had been on an official visit yet. Francios was offered October 28th. Dawkins on October 29th. Bickler on October 30th. Never a hint of Smith wavering on any of those three and never a hint that they were looking around.

    Also, Riley offered Dukart and Petras on October 13th or so, less than a week after Andersen had quit.

    So I bet somewhere between October 9th and October 28th, we’d already had a handshake offer to Smith with the sort of assumption that Riley would come along after he got fired. If true, it’s crazy how fast that moved.

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    • As ethically tone deaf as Riley has been in the past, and as enabling as OSU has been with regard to having zero professional standards when dealing with the man, I have a hard time thinking Riley was so contemptibly corrupt that he would do this. It’s clear that he’s devoid of any professional ethics with the way he quit on Nebby and still stole their money this past year… as well as making Nebby his bitch with the $50k salary slap in the face. I can buy Dee scuttling the team’s morale with talk about 9 and Bikey coming back during the season. Family gets excited and talks shit, embarrassing normally professional people. But it’s hard, even given his crap actions, to believe Bikey was shitting on two separate programs at once during the season. I have a hard time believing his lazy methods can actuate a single program, let alone two of them.

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      • Its also very Wisconsinesque…..Works for them quite well. I honestly don’t understand any argument against such a strategy. There is no better position in football to find a guy with the right body type to coach up. You don’t need to be a freak athlete, just big with an attitude and willingness to learn proper technique.

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      • To be fair: There where a couple years where Riley’s coaches failed to focus on and/or land many Olinemen leaving us with 1 particular year where every starter was a walk-on.

        Where as: we signed 3 this year and are supplementing with PWO’s.

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        • Exactly, by no means am I wanting them to recruit less lineman. I just think the bulk of the 20 PWO’s a program has should be on the OL/DL along with a QB every once in awhile (any news on Struck?). Exceptions always exist of course.

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  22. The Good – Signings in the Jan period were mostly solid pickups with good upside. Guys who look like they can play in the PAC12.
    The Bad – Did sign some guys who’s only D1 offer was OSU (Robinson, Tufaga, Dukart)
    The Ugly – No good QB signed. Admittedly a short period of time to find a QB but Colletto and Dukart’s upsides look pretty limited. Hopefully they will not see the field in their first year or two or three.

    Looks like three guys enrolled early so we’ll get a sneak peak during the spring – Smalls, Wilson and Hodgins.

    Overall, Smith looks like he was able to salvage some of the class. I’d like to see all of them redshirt. There isn’t a guy who looks like he could step in and play right away. They all need to hit the weight room.

    As far as a grade, it’s a pass due to the circumstances. It’ll be interesting to see how the guys who committed under GA develop vs the guys who committed under Smith.

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      • I don’t see it. I definitely don’t agree with 247’s 4 star ranking. 3 stars for sure.

        He’s got great length, looks like a good tackler. But the speed is an issue. He’s pretty slow for an OLB. The only time I could find was over 5 seconds. He does play quick and is a long strider so that is a bit deceiving. He’d be a pretty great 4-3 defensive end. I think he’d eventually move to ILB.

        Also, he looked way better at QB than the other two signees.

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      • There are also soooo many skirts to chase and partying to be done in Tempe at ASU. It has to be difficult to keep players out of trouble. I recall they had a lot os issues under DE’s watch, and Graham came in and seem to instill more discipline and get there academics back on track within a year. I remember being surprised at how quickly he changed the culture.

        Hard to believe Herm wants to put that much effort into babysitting.

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  24. This was the slowest signing day ever for AB. I think because (a) no expected surprises or big names (b) early signing reduced the size.

    Interesting how the early signing period might effect the paywall sites and advertisers.

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  26. Sounds like David Morris has a broken foot and hooes to be back by season’s start, but we all know how broken feet like to take their time to heal

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  27. Can’t be a good sign for Nebraska that Hunt is taking so long to sign, right?

    Does it mean that Coach Hynson and Coach Niner are making a late push and that Hunt is listening? Or are there dark horse teams in Hunt’s ear right now, too? USC again? Oregon? Chip Kelly at UCLA?

    The delay could mean he’s listening to the Beavs…or not.

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  30. In regards to the PWO’s at OSU, makes sense to me that we have 15 OL and about 8-10 DL to have 3 different groups go up against each other at one time in practice and the best players will play. Nebraska is set up this way and that’s how practices should be ran.

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  31. Anybody excited about ANY of these recruits? Going to be tough sledding with a roster full of the little sisters of the poor. Going to need major improvement in recruiting if this program is ever going to get out of the cellar.

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  32. Final rankings have Oregon at #16 and OSU at #69 (in honor of Gary Andersen??!)

    Interesting that the lowest ranked team to land a 5-star recruit is LSU at #15. Ducks so close but still on the outside looking in.

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  33. FWIW (probably not much) here’s S-I’s rankings of the top 50 classes. After the top 10 I just kept the PAC schools on the list.

    “Here are the current team rankings for the class of 2018. We’ll continue to update this as more and more players put pen to paper.

    1. Georgia
    2. Ohio State
    3. Texas
    4. Penn State
    5. Clemson
    6. USC
    7. Miamia
    8. Oklahoma
    9. Alabama
    10. Notre Dame

    13. Washington

    17. Oregon
    18. UCLA

    37. Utah
    38. Stanford

    42. California

    44. Washington State

    50. Colorado”

    https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/02/07/national-signing-day-2018-college-football-class-rankings

    So only the Beavs, ASU, and UA didn’t make their top 50?

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      • Golly, I think we’re completely different! He doesn’t know you play to play the game. That’s the great thing about sports. Once you think gum-chewing doesn’t matter, retire! YOU PLAY TO PLAY THE GAME!

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        • Golly, sorry about getting so fired up there. But ya know, that’s the neat deal about sports. You play to play the game. Shucks, you can also play to lose the game if you want to take Husker money and run outta that corncobbing heckhole! Pardon my french TPB# hashtag lol

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