2015 FB Recruits

[standiego]

Any comments from any one who had been out to practices on the developments of the 2015 FB recruits , believe most of the class red shirted /scout team . Did a couple of guys play on D ? Punter ? 2015 Class had 5 OL,4 DB's/S , 3 DL , 3 LB . Know we lost WR due to illness, another dropped out , one of the 2 RB's left ? would guesswe see a lot of participation next year .

[Old School]

Ex-4 star LB Kyahva Tezino made defensive scout team player of the year. I was wondering if he could crack the LB rotation as his recruiting classmate LB Ronley Lakalaka (3 star recruit) was already getting game minutes as a true freshman.

Oldie Out

[aztecfan1]

If Tezino does not WOW us by August or even March I will be surprised and very disappointed .

[fowl]

Have some patience AF1. He's going to be a good player but he is young. Just because he was branded with a 4* rating while the rest of our recruits were branded as 3* doesn't mean that he should be winning the Badnarik award his RS frosh season. There is little difference between a three star kid and a four star kid to be honest. This should be evident as Lakalaka was a 3* and was higher on the depth chart than this kid.

He's going to be a good player but like a fine wine....

[standiego]

Current team will lose at least 2 starters at OL & DL possibly DB's . Any possible starters or will it be the JC guys coming in or back ups from current team .?

[pdraztec]

Believe 2 True Frosh played this year.....
Parker Baldwin (Aztec) and Ronle Lakalaka (LB) cracked the 2-deep.
Baldwin got the award for Freshman POY.

2 players cracking the 2-deep as freshmen is no big deal when you have
teams like TCU with 15 and U$C and UCLA around 19 and 20.

Young, gifted players want to play immediately and should feel that way.
The general rule of thumb is that if you can crack the 2-deep...you will
play. The more players that can do this is a measure of your recruiting
and the success of the program. It is a self-feeding situation and one
that we should be aspiring to have happen on the Mesa. The days of saying
" we can redshirt them and have them for 5 years" is long gone as far as
a goal. It does happen but it is not goal for most talented players.
They want to play and if they are physically able and talented enough..
....they probably will.

Let's see how this next recruiting class measures up.

[standiego]

one of the major differences between P5 recruits and G5 . P5 get the 5 and 4 star recruits that sometimes come in and make good contributions as true freshmen . G5 recruits mostly 2 and 3 star take longer

[missiontrails]

Dec 27, 2015 11:45:17 GMT -8 pdraztec said:

Believe 2 True Frosh played this year.....
Parker Baldwin (Aztec) and Ronle Lakalaka (LB) cracked the 2-deep.
Baldwin got the award for Freshman POY.

2 players cracking the 2-deep as freshmen is no big deal when you have
teams like TCU with 15 and U$C and UCLA around 19 and 20.

Young, gifted players want to play immediately and should feel that way.
The general rule of thumb is that if you can crack the 2-deep...you will
play. The more players that can do this is a measure of your recruiting
and the success of the program. It is a self-feeding situation and one
that we should be aspiring to have happen on the Mesa. The days of saying
" we can redshirt them and have them for 5 years" is long gone as far as
a goal. It does happen but it is not goal for most talented players.
They want to play and if they are physically able and talented enough..
....they probably will.

Let's see how this next recruiting class measures up.

Playing several true freshmen could also indicate you didn't recruit well in previous years, or maybe you got the injury bug. See Wyoming for the former reason.