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ChooChooCat wrote: Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:07 am
EastCoastCat wrote: Sat Jun 18, 2022 6:02 am I prefer quality over quantity but you gotta start somewhere and becoming deeper is one of our top priorities.

Separates the good teams from the bad when someone goes down and there is no drop off with the next in line.
The point is the quantity of this class will not prevent them from adding quality for the first time since....ever, thanks to the elimination of the 25 man class limit. They're basically trying to replace the Sumlin level guys who have already left/been forced out with either guys who are ready to contribute ASAP or guys that they like that they intend to develop. They don't have many developmental guys on the roster at the moment.
But aren't we already at the 85 limit with less than a dozen seniors? Sounds like some guys will need to be chased out to me, but maybe I am wrong and we are closer to 75 at the moment.
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Sean Brown's other offers from Colorado St, Washington St, BYU, Oregon St, San Diego St, UNLV, and Utah St.
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AZ picks up a commitment
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Kid had a lot of Ivy school offers. Nice.
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azgreg wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:26 pm Kid had a lot of Ivy school offers. Nice.
Bright guy - Cornell, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, along with P5 offers from Utah and Vanderbilt.
And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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CatsbyAZ wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:19 am
azgreg wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:26 pm Kid had a lot of Ivy school offers. Nice.
Bright guy - Cornell, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, along with P5 offers from Utah and Vanderbilt.
Maybe he can help out with our play calling...
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UAEebs86 wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 3:17 pm
Nice, I like his size. According to 247, FSU, Miami, Oregon and Arkansas offered him.
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Nice - welcome Elijah! A wide range of competing offers from Arizona State, Arkansas, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, Nevada, Oregon, Oregon State, UNLV, and Utah State. Rated Nevada's 6th best prospect.
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Man these coaches just keep grinding. He was selling AZ and our NIL program the other day and putting that bug in the parents ear that we are not a long way away to see their kids play
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I saw the tweet.

What’s up?
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wyo-cat wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:33 pm I saw the tweet.

What’s up?
Another commitment.
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Definitely has the size doesn’t he. No more smurfs for us
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azcat49 wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:12 pm Definitely has the size doesn’t he. No more smurfs for us
Do you have a problem with 250 lb nose guards?
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azgreg wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:15 pm
azcat49 wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:12 pm Definitely has the size doesn’t he. No more smurfs for us
Do you have a problem with 250 lb nose guards?
250???? I had problems with RRods 247 lb nose tackles.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ ... /89050010/
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dmjcat wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:26 pm
azgreg wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:15 pm
azcat49 wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:12 pm Definitely has the size doesn’t he. No more smurfs for us
Do you have a problem with 250 lb nose guards?
250???? I had problems with RRods 247 lb nose tackles.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ ... /89050010/
I was counting the helmet.
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I was watching a 2016 game against Nevada and our down lineman looked so small back then. We did look great on offense though
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I think the nose guard on my son's Pop Warner team in 8th grade was close to 250.
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Hamilton kid - nice!
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Welcome Genesis!

A PHX area kids with competing offers from Colorado State, Iowa State, Oregon State, San Diego State, Washington, and Washington State.
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One thing that I've noticed: Most of the highest rated commits played a decent amount against SDSU. Tetairoa, Sterling Lane, Speedy Luke etc.

I root for all of our Wildcat commits equally, but here is my question: How does the makeup of this class look compared to last years? I absolutely believe in star rankings and offer lists. Some of the guys committed feel a little G5ish to me.

Additionally, are there any 4/5 star types in the crosshairs for this staff?
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Fendicent4ever wrote: Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:06 pm One thing that I've noticed: Most of the highest rated commits played a decent amount against SDSU. Tetairoa, Sterling Lane, Speedy Luke etc.

I root for all of our Wildcat commits equally, but here is my question: How does the makeup of this class look compared to last years? I absolutely believe in star rankings and offer lists. Some of the guys committed feel a little G5ish to me.

Additionally, are there any 4/5 star types in the crosshairs for this staff?
Over on Scheer's site someone mentioned there's 3 silent commits. Two 4 stars and 1 high 3 star.
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Mostly all three stars that are high 3 star guys with multiple P5 offers. One 4 star guy which is the QB. Supposedly 3 silent commits and many think the best recruits will be on the O Line. Have heard people say it will be a top 30 class and top 20 if we bowl
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azcat49 wrote: Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:15 pm Mostly all three stars that are high 3 star guys with multiple P5 offers. One 4 star guy which is the QB. Supposedly 3 silent commits and many think the best recruits will be on the O Line. Have heard people say it will be a top 30 class and top 20 if we bowl

Love to hear it!!!
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I would expect this recruiting class to be not as good as last years, which is understandable, but much better than the classes we were accustomed to seeing the last decade prior. If we have a good season I have a heard time not believing in this staff to capitalize on that and add some late big names. The three biggest names we are going hard after (all 4 stars) and in a good place with are Caleb Lomu (OL), Leviticus Su’a (LB) and Iapani Laloulu (OL)
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azcat49 wrote: Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:15 pm Mostly all three stars that are high 3 star guys with multiple P5 offers. One 4 star guy which is the QB. Supposedly 3 silent commits and many think the best recruits will be on the O Line. Have heard people say it will be a top 30 class and top 20 if we bowl
I remember Winger over at TOS doing an analysis that since there are so few 5 and 4 stars that what is really important for a school like Arizona is to make sure the 3 stars are at the top of the 3 star rankings. Good to hear 49.
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This staff puts in more work in recruiting in a week than RRod did in an entire year
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One of the to RB's in the west will be in attendance at tonights game against Colorado
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I'm sure our class this year won't match last year's but I'm eondering what highly rated recruits or studs we might be after, especially defensively. We are in need of another under the radar LB star like Scooby.
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Big time Mike LB Su’a from Mater Dei (4star) is deciding between Stanford and us with Fisch handling his recruitment personally.

Not sure of anyone else they are looking at but you have to think from here on out in the 23 class they would all be on defense or Offensive lineman
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Thanks 49. Exactly what I was looking for.
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With his brother already at Oregon, the minute he got that offer he was going to commit.

He never committed to us but no doubt we wanted him. Lomu is our #1 target on that Line
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