I learned something new today. John Madden, Bill Walsh, and Julian Edelman all played at CSM. It will be interesting to see how Bennett Williams turns things around. If his little brother makes his way to Davis, maybe the "package deal" isn't too far fetched.
Humboldt players? It would seem they might have a few guys who could play at the next level. After all, they did beat us few years back and they had a OL drafted last year. Hawk’s backyard too. Just a thought . . . .
Saw the other day that one kid transferred to Akron (FBS). I don't think the unit transfer hiccup would be too much of an issue. Especially for underclassmen with decent grades.
Cal Poly had one of Williams teammates (Offensive Lineman) visit this weekend. He also picked up a Fresno State Offer this week. We might have been able to fend off FSU with our academics and location, but unfortunately he also picked a Colorado offer. That one will be a little tougher.
SLO it will depend on the offer. It is surly not a full. So 1/2- 1/3 maybe. Boulder is a nice town, but the university is not that good, not that academics are all that high on a prospects list. SLO is every bit as good. If you offer a full and playing time you may get him. Colo may just put on the end of the bench for 3 years.
No Fcs have 63 to spread among 85 (I think that’s the number). FBS have 85 Full to give to 85. We have to be creative with grants to fill the gap ( UC gap is being than our competition)
Transfer credit is well defined coming from a JC, the more academic programs have a numbering system that maps to UC equivalents. There are a lot of classes for which one would get credit transferable to a state college but none to a UC. Conversely, there is no list that says these CSU courses map to these UC they would be evaluated individually.
There are entire majors at state colleges that have no uc equivalents. Not necessarily a bad thing but not equivalent so no credit. Or even if they got credit might not fulfill major prerequisites.
Great recent article in FiveThirtyEight analyzing why offensive performance is far more predictable of success in football than defensive performance; and why the best NFL teams draft good offensive players before the best defensive players. It explains why the recent high scoring in NFL games is happening. Now, this is an article for football geeks who know their metrics and advanced algebra (not me) and its also about the NFL, but it could apply to DI football as well. One defensive stat that surprised me was that hits on the QB (not sacks) are highly predictive of a winning season. Might be one reason Hawk does seem to concentrate on getting the best offensive players. Anyway, good read.
interesting that if we go by the list of guys we’ve offered that you maintain on first page of this discussion that Dawson Hursts the first we’ve lost to Cal Poly. If that’s true then we really don’t compete much with them for recruits.
Really we haven't lost that many recruits to Big Sky teams in general and the positions in which we did lose recruits we landed several stellar ones. Hawkins has us competing heavily with FBS teams for recruits.
Woah big commit for the Lumberjacks. My gut feeling was that this one was going to come down to EWU vs Davis, but looks like the home state got the prize.