Official 2019 Recruiting Updates Thread: Links, Tweets, Videos, Stories, Rumors, etc.

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Tteyson potts has got to be one of the most underrated backs in the country. Dude honestly would be a 4 star top 300 in the country if it was it for concern about his ACL. Im betting he is the Rashod batemann of this class watch him blow up with offers
 

Goph33 said:
Tteyson potts has got to be one of the most underrated backs in the country. Dude honestly would be a 4 star top 300 in the country if it was it for concern about his ACL. Im betting he is the Rashod batemann of this class watch him blow up with offers
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I wonder how many of the current Gopher recruits other than Potts will have their composite ratings elevated at the end of their HS football season.

There appears to be several under the radar type of players due to coming off injuries or to transfers. I am not too worried if the Gopher's recruiting ranking dipping to low 40s in this class. Sure, we missed on players like Bachmeier, Duggan, and Carroll. But, it looks like the Gophers are doing a great job at talent evaluation. The commitments they have currently appear to be very decent.
 

hungan1 said:
I wonder how many of the current Gopher recruits other than Potts will have their composite ratings elevated at the end of their HS football season.

There appears to be several under the radar type of players due to coming off injuries or to transfers. I am not too worried if the Gopher's recruiting ranking dipping to low 40s in this class. Sure, we missed on players like Bachmeier, Duggan, and Carroll. But, it looks like the Gophers are doing a great job at talent evaluation. The commitments they have currently appear to be very decent.
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Some ratings might go up, some might go down.
Main thing is if they turn into productive players and play here fro 3-5 years instead of coming for a year or two and transferring.
 





per Shama:

Quarterback Cole Kramer told Sports Headliners he has the academic credits to graduate early from Eden Prairie High School and he has finalized plans to start classes in January at the University of Minnesota.

Eden Prairie coach Mike Grant learned of the news last week. “Well, I think it’s a good idea for a quarterback to do it,” Grant said. “Him and I have talked about trying to do that, and get in there early. Then he goes through a spring practice, and that’s beneficial.”

Cole will be able to sign paper work for his scholarship in December, along with other high school football players throughout the country. He was the first player in Minnesota’s 2019 football recruiting class to verbally commit.

Cole drew interest from Iowa and Michigan State before committing to the Golden Gophers. Is there a possibility he will flip his verbal commitment and not attend Minnesota? What circumstances could cause that to happen?

“Nothing. I am committed fully to the Gophers, and that’s where my heart is and that’s where I will stay,” Cole said.

What if the Gophers had a dreadful record in 2018? “I don’t care what will happen (with the record) this year,” Cole said. “I love the coaches. I love everything that they’re doing. They’re going in the right place (direction). With what coach (P.J.) Fleck did with Western Michigan, how he went from a poor season all the way to 13-0, I totally believe we can do that, too.”

Other schools have backed away from pursuing the Eden Prairie senior who is “100 percent” on Minnesota. “They (other schools) kind of know I am set in stone with the Gophers,” Cole said.

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Looking at 247sports for 2019 offers: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/Season/2019-Football/Offers/

If you go through and look at the remaining uncommitted recruits, where we are listed as "warm", and when you click on their profiles they don't have a crystal ball that is higher than 50% for some other school, we have:
Joacheim Price - OT - 3* 0.8527
Kristian Williams - DT - 4* 0.8932
Jason Blissett - DT - 3* 0.8742


Any idea if we're hoping to get one of those three for the 25th spot?
 

Gophers_4life said:
Looking at 247sports for 2019 offers: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/Season/2019-Football/Offers/

If you go through and look at the remaining uncommitted recruits, where we are listed as "warm", and when you click on their profiles they don't have a crystal ball that is higher than 50% for some other school, we have:
Joacheim Price - OT - 3* 0.8527
Kristian Williams - DT - 4* 0.8932
Jason Blissett - DT - 3* 0.8742


Any idea if we're hoping to get one of those three for the 25th spot?
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Don’t know if anyone whose super high on us. We do have 24 commits but I think that 2 are greyshirtimg so can technically have 3 more commits
 

Gophers_4life said:
Looking at 247sports for 2019 offers: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/Season/2019-Football/Offers/

If you go through and look at the remaining uncommitted recruits, where we are listed as "warm", and when you click on their profiles they don't have a crystal ball that is higher than 50% for some other school, we have:
Joacheim Price - OT - 3* 0.8527
Kristian Williams - DT - 4* 0.8932
Jason Blissett - DT - 3* 0.8742


Any idea if we're hoping to get one of those three for the 25th spot?
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Price moreso than others. I am all for adding as many DL (and OL) as you can but they're down to 2-3 spots left as I don't trust my counting. They wouldn't mind another OL but I think they are saving those spots mainly for DB and/or BPA.
 



Goph33 said:
Don’t know if anyone whose super high on us. We do have 24 commits but I think that 2 are greyshirtimg so can technically have 3 more commits
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Greyshirting is a way to keep some slots open just in case a recruit comes along that we really want. Logan Richter is grayshirting from last year, so that takes one of this year's spots. With the 2 planned greyshirts for this class, we've still got 2 open slots. If we get two more recruits, great; if not then the two greyshirts will convert to schollys.
 

Livingat45north said:
Greyshirting is a way to keep some slots open just in case a recruit comes along that we really want. Logan Richter is grayshirting from last year, so that takes one of this year's spots. With the 2 planned greyshirts for this class, we've still got 2 open slots. If we get two more recruits, great; if not then the two greyshirts will convert to schollys.
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Is Richter playing football anywhere this fall, like a prep academy or something? No idea if that's allowed... but feel like Josh Campion did that a few years ago.


Also, this: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/Season/2019-Football/Commits/ shows 24 hard commits, which includes Richter. So you're saying two other guys in this list are planning to GS? Or they're guys not in this list? Because if they are two guys listed, and Richter is listed, then we could still sign up to 3 guys ... ?
 
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If a 4-Star OL is available and wants to hop on the RTB ride, take him. What is the strategy for the remaining slots? Or do we even know how many are left?
 

hungan1 said:
If a 4-Star OL is available and wants to hop on the RTB ride, take him. What is the strategy for the remaining slots? Or do we even know how many are left?
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I'd agree with that strategy too but there isn't a 4 star OL on the board to public knowledge at the moment either.

As far as spots, it is kind of murky because we're not totally sure on Cooper's situation. Has it been fully confirmed that it's a scholarship offer or a GS? Let's say we have 23 commits at the moment because Udoibok from all accounts is going to be an Annexstad type situation where he'll be a PWO for a year and then eligible to be on scholarship starting the next year through some loophole. What that is and how to explain it, I'm not 100% sure but that's been my understanding of that situation.

So with 23, that would mean 2 more spots? 3 if Cooper is a GS situation.

I would think they would for sure want to add another DB in this class but I also think that when push comes to shove, it would be a best player available situation. If we run into a Dunlap/Faalele situation, I'm sure they'd take a guy like that in a heartbeat.

Personally, I wish they had taken another OL this class at minimum and not 2 scholarship specialists in one class (hey, the staff did it, I'll live with it but personally disagree with that strategy).
 

Gophers_4life said:
Is Richter playing football anywhere this fall, like a prep academy or something? No idea if that's allowed... but feel like Josh Campion did that a few years ago.


Also, this: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/Season/2019-Football/Commits/ shows 24 hard commits, which includes Richter. So you're saying two other guys in this list are planning to GS? Or they're guys not in this list? Because if they are two guys listed, and Richter is listed, then we could still sign up to 3 guys ... ?
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Udoibok and Cooper are greyshirts so they'd come off.
 

Anyone know if we've got recruits coming in for the opener or where I could find a list? I'm just curious
 

upnorthkid said:
Udoibok and Cooper are greyshirts so they'd come off.
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Oh it’s got the little gray shirt icons right on there next to their names, doh! Thanks

So that means we could sign up to three more, the 25th spot and those two GS spots ...?
 


bemidjigopher said:
Yep 25 +3

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Except by my quick count we're currently sitting at about 91 scholarships next year with the current commits. That means 6 current scholarship players would have to leave with eligibility. That's pretty normal attrition, but I think this class is pretty much maxed out with 22 scholarship commits.
 

I'd have to think that there has to be a couple of RS Juniors who will have enough credits to graduate next Spring.
 

hungan1 said:
I'd have to think that there has to be a couple of RS Juniors who will have enough credits to graduate next Spring.
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Or guys who just want to play more and transfer. I think Fleck already talking about Bryce Williams at running back?? That would be skipping over 2-3 guys...
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Except by my quick count we're currently sitting at about 91 scholarships next year with the current commits. That means 6 current scholarship players would have to leave with eligibility. That's pretty normal attrition, but I think this class is pretty much maxed out with 22 scholarship commits.
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There's always transfers plus typically a few red shirt juniors who are wished the best of luck in their future endeavours. I.e someone like Femi-Cole who probably won't play. Or a Royal Silver if the young guys pass him up on the depth chart.

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bemidjigopher said:
There's always transfers plus typically a few red shirt juniors who are wished the best of luck in their future endeavours. I.e someone like Femi-Cole who probably won't play. Or a Royal Silver if the young guys pass him up on the depth chart.

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Definitely. Right now that would be ~6 players, and if we took 3 more commits that would grow to 9. Possible, but it seems unlikely. I think this class is pretty much done unless there are de-commits, or they decide to go in a different direction with a few recruits.
 

upnorthkid said:
Anyone know if we've got recruits coming in for the opener or where I could find a list? I'm just curious
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If I remember correctly, they try to have all/most recruits come on the same weekend. I thought it was pretty late in the year or right before the early signing date. Sure some come for unofficials to catch a game. The previous staff was different as they would have multiple officials randomly throughout the season. I actually like the way they do it now so many of the kids meet one another and seem more likely to stay committed. Guessing every school does it differently.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Definitely. Right now that would be ~6 players, and if we took 3 more commits that would grow to 9. Possible, but it seems unlikely. I think this class is pretty much done unless there are de-commits, or they decide to go in a different direction with a few recruits.
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Probably about right

There is always chance of de-commit, and 6-9 transfers wouldn't surprise me in the least
 

Well, just look at the number of (redshirt) juniors this year who don't get to play at all or contribute very much beyond special teams. You can't tell from the roster who has a scholarship or not, but I can see at least a few guys who I don't think get to play much ...
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Except by my quick count we're currently sitting at about 91 scholarships next year with the current commits. That means 6 current scholarship players would have to leave with eligibility. That's pretty normal attrition, but I think this class is pretty much maxed out with 22 scholarship commits.
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My take is in Power 5 conferences you will see 5-10% turnover ever year for various reasons. So if that holds, we should be ok if 5-9 leve.

Also, some of the Schollys in that 91 are those that were 'awarded' to walk ons. So one might expect some of those to be freed up as I expect those are just one year deals. I love those stories/films and think that PWO's earning a scholly are what will make our program great.
 

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