That's called getting it done and having high quality kids, kids that know what it means to say something and then do it. Kids that are being held accountable, this is a good thing.
This class will rank ahead of Mizzou and way ahead of K-st. It filled some needs, mainly DE's that can get to the QB (Young, Sellers and Woods), a big back (Opurum) and defensive secondary (Kande, Linton, Kelly, Rubles, Patmon and Beshears) a bonafide playmaker (McDougald) and OL and DL depth (various)
Enjoy my little recap- It's a great day to be a Jayhawk.
Who's on campus already-
DE- Kevin Young - Olathe, KS - on campus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uibPYUjTic
Kevin Young gives KU something they needed badly, pressure off the edge. Luckily for him he got to be very close to the a sensational tailgate last year and luckily for us, he's already been on campus for a couple of weeks. Letting him get aclimated to the day to day activities of major college football and getting to go through Spring ball plus the added time he'll get in the weight room. He will have a chance (chance being the operative word here) to play early, but he should be a very solid player for KU. his video is from his Junior year and its pretty wild, kid is quick and has a big frame.
CB -Calvin Rubles - Juco - Tyler, TX - on campus
Did he go to the same high school as Aqib Talib, yep. Does he want to be like Aqib Talib, yep. Will he, doubt it, but let's be honest Talib was unreal while at KU. Rubles does give the secondary such much needed depth and coming from Juco he has already played against some good competition, he will have a shot at starting at one of the corner spots and should be in the rotation next year for sure. (No we're not getting into how this effect Daymond Patterson, that's 2 blogs in itself)
RB - Deshaun Sands - Cocunut Creek, FL - on campus
Touchdown Tony's kid. Cool, first commit of the class and also is on campus early. He's quick, he's got some jitterbug to his game and he put up some pretty stupid numbers in high class Florida high school. Some have mentioned that he could be an option as a KO returner, hmmmm. Not sure he'll get carries next year since we have Sharp and I'm guessing that Crawford will play worth a shit next year, but real excited to have this kid in the fold.
QB - Jordan Webb - Union, MO - on campus
Other than shunning Mizzou to come ot KU, then to have Mizzou fans vandalize his house and he's still here, he's gonna be good. He's small, but so is some other guy that wears #5. Won't need to play this coming year, just get better and then duke it out for the QB spot in 2010. Is a dual threat guy that played in the spread in HS and put up a lot of numbers.
PLAYERS WHO WILL BE IN LAWRENCE THIS SUMMER
D.J. Beshears - WR/CB - Denton,TX - signed LOI
88 catches
1,450 yards
21 TD's
enough said.
He's been told by the coaches that he'll start out as a CB but don't rule out some slot WR for the kid, he obviously has HR potential. Was originally commited to Iowa St. He needs to add some weight as do almost all of these guys, but he's an intriguing prospect and one that I'll follow over the next 4-5 years ( I get that I'll follow all of them, tee hee)
Julian Jones - LB - Lawton, OK - signed LOI
Built like a brick shithouse and alledgedly will knock your face off, so that's good, kind of a diamond in the rough guy that wound up being pretty highly rated. He has a definite shot to play early as in next year. But sounds like the kind of guy we need laying wood over the middle. Is and OLB as opposed to and ILB.
Darian Kelly - DB - Girard,KS - signed LOI
Safety or possible rover. Lot of talk of him sliding down to play an OLB type roll. With so many spread teams out there, I think you'll see a lot of KU playing 2 LB's and 3 safeties, and he'd fit in there. He got some offers to play Div 1 hoops but his future is on the gridiron. He'll knock you right out and won't think twice about it. OU was interested in him, but he commited very early. Good kid that is very athletic and tough, will fit great against spread teams and with our secondary.
Dexter Linton - DB - Arlington, TX - Signed LOI
Teammate of Christiam Matthews, a highly regarded safety with 4.42 speed, might be able to play some nickle back and free safety. Good ball skills, a lot like Kelly just not know as much as a head hunter but he can play.
Lowest rated recruit, but also an OL that Warriner recruited for over 2 years, so there's gotta be something there. Was all district in St Louis.
Chris Omigie - WR - Arlington, TX -Signed LOI
His coach said he'll block you into the stands so that's good because Mangino let us all know that if you don't block you don't play. He's a tall WR 6-5 to be exact and has deceptive speed, his words not mine, I don't know what the hell deceptive speed is. Should be in the next wave of WR's as it'll be an act of God if anyone takes snaps away from KM, Dez or J Wil.
Him and Kale Pick should become buddies.
Toben Opurum - RB - Plano, TX - Signed LOI
#3 Rated fullback and one of 4 - 4 Star recruits according to Rivals.com.
let's see he's a big back who can catch the ball out of the backfield and had offers from Notre Dame, Florida, LSU and others and he's a Jayhawk. He's got a chance to play early, but he's gonna play at KU, no doubt about it, couldn't find any film of him on Youtube, but I've watch his tape and its pretty good, we'll be hearing about him at open practices in the fall for sure.
He's doing a live chat on KUsports.com tonight at 6PM too.
Tyler Patmon - DB - Cedar Park, TX - signed LOI
second commit, and was the guy that J'Ney Jackson targeted first. Made all district while only playing 3 games due to I believe a shoulder injury. With the track record of our secondary and staff, if they target you early, and you sign up, I like you, so I like this kid. He is from Texas which always helps due to the level of talent he has gone against. He's a corner, not a a safety at all too small, corner all the way.
Tyrone Sellers - DE - McCook, NE -Signed LOI
Gatorade Player of the Year in NE.
Fast off the edge, rated a little bit higher than Kevin Young and played for a power of a program in NE. Real excited about this guy, between and him and Biere we are getting talent from a state that generally doesn't let talent out, so that's a good thing. He's a DE all the way, he's a speed rusher all the way, once he gets bigger he can play every down, but I could see him being used situationaly early in his career. ( There's a great picture of him at his signing where the audio guy has a NU hoodie on and a look of this guy is going to ruin some of my Saturday's classic, stupid cobs)
Travis Stephens - DT - Brenham,TX -Signed LOI
Coaches told him to get as big as he can, he played DE in HS, he's quick, he'll be a speed rusher in the middle, hopefully like a McClinton, exciting times. I think he's up around 280 already so getting with Dawson will be very important. Could be a real nice cog in the middle of the DL later.
Huldon Tharp - LB - Mulvane, KS - signed LOI
Other than having a really cool name and being in state, well he blew his knee out but is fully recovered now. He should be ready for the the summer workouts. He would have had a shot at going to some big boy had he not hurt his knee, had offers from Stanford and Illinois anyway. Too hard to tell where he'll fit in once he arrives couple with the recovery. He is a solid player and very smart, helped coach his HS team after the injury, so that tells me he loves football is selfless and wants to win and that's a Mangino guy right there, so I'll take as many guys like him as we can get.
Jacoby Thomas - DE - Texarkana, TX- Signed LOI
Listed as a DE but could be kind of situation that Holt had last year where he rushes from the DE spot and also plays some OLB. But that could change and he could have a more defined role. He stands at 6-3 and around 225, so he has the size to either stay at OLB or more down, we'll see. (this might get a bit repitive, but a good get, they all are, what a freaking great class)
Quinton Woods - DE - Bakersfield, CA by way of Michigan - signed LOI
Juco 4 Star- Will start from day, will make and impact from day 1 will improve our pash rush from day 1.
Quick first step already has good size. It sucks he couldn't graduate at semester but he might not be a Jayhawk if he graduated at semester, one of the power houses would have been all over him. As it is, he's a Jayhawk and should play a pretty decent hand in the third straight bowl win.
QB- Christian Matthews - Arlington, TX -Signed LOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzt9TPnfTWk
Compared to Pat White when he commited as far as style of play. He's teammates with Dexter Linton and they commited on the same day, which was fun.
Prinz Kande played against him and said he's a lot better passer than people give him credit for and he's a really good athlete.
A lot of people are assuming he'll be moved to WR, but he'll be given every chance to win the QB spot post TR5.
Wherever and whenever he finds the field he'll be a guy that we'll want with the ball in his hands.
OT- Riley Spencer - Hesston, KS -signed LOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHTg_kFanI
Good footwork, needs to work on leverage and keeping his ass down, his pass blocking is way behind his run blocking based on his HS's offense. In state guy who has been out with a shoulder injury, should be back soon on it though. He's up to 290 pounds. If you remember last year, there were a lot of pounds on those guys, so this is encouraging, because you can't teach size.
DB/ S - Prinz Kande - Signed LOI
Probably the crown jewel of this class. A ballahawking Safety, that played for the #1 High School team in the country last year and started all four years, which is very rare, he's real battle tested and his adjustment should be more minor than most. I could easily see him playing next year in the secondary. Hopefully, Stuckey takes him under his wing and makes him even better.
WR- Erick McGriff- Florida -Signed LOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUMcwuoLTeE
One of my favorites from this class, a tall WR at 6-4, he'll be a nice big target for Kale Pick or whoever follows TR5.
Yes he's Fred McGriff's kid, which means there's a good chance we'll be meeting Tom Emanski, which means we'll all be better at the fundamentals of baseball, so that's exciting. Stealing this kid out of Florida, is unreal, I'm real excited for him to get to Lawrence, he's got a chance to be real good.
Gavin Howard- OG/OT - Owasso, OK - Signed LOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em8SKGiIeM8
Weighs 295 now. Was impressive at the KU camp and that's when he got his offer and he jumped all over it.
Stands at 6-5, I think he's more of a OG but I'll let the coaches decide that.
Randall Dent DT/DE- Signed LOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwWdJ_7shu4&feature=related
Somehow related to Richard Dent, at least that's the rumor. When he visited this winter he had a couple of bags of KU stuff as he was leaving Allen, so that was a pretty good indicator that he was coming to KU. Would not even answer the phone when Florida called, because he was so sold on being a Jayhawk, STUD. He'd listed as a DE, but I wouldn't be shocked if he played inside, I think that's very possible. Good motor and quick, so could be a difference maker anywhere along the DL.
Bradley McDougald S/WR/DB - Dublin, OH - Signed LOI
the 4th - 4 Star to commit to the Jayhawks.
He's a stud, really no two ways to cut it. He was ticketed to go to the ohio state but wound up a Jayhawk. Great job by Warriner to get this kid.
He's a real humble kid, who will do some things at KU.
I gotta believe he's going to play WR, and I gotta believe he's got a chance to play early. If J Will can play some as a freshmen, so can this kid.
He's got a some real moves with the ball in his hand and will be another able target this year for Todd and be a major threat down the road.
Sorry if this is choppy, let me know if you have any questions.
Rock Chalk
http://kuathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020409aaf.html (nice summary of guys from KUathletics if you need it)
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