I watched the CAL Football Signing Day Zoom call tonight and I have to say my favorite player of the bunch is Jackson Brown. He's big and he has nasty, maybe more than even McCade Mettauer. He's a pile driver and road grader and he has GREAT technique. He is the first truly big man I have seen as a recruit that doesn't get out over his feet and stays low. He may be competing for a spot pretty quickly if he has decent muscle as part of his tonnage.
Most excellent that Cal closed the deal on these players. Perhaps I'm reading too much in Jackson's tweet but it appears that his Dad signed his NLI exactly 40 years ago to-the-day. That is pretty cool and may be the reason for waiting until Feb rather than the early signing day. (for those that don't know, Jackson's Dad has passed away.)
Was sweating out the Jackson Brown thing. Good for guys to explore their options, but that looked iffier and iffier by the day. In the end, Brown became Golden. Go Bears!
I've learned to take the rankings with a grain of salt. Projecting which 3 star recruits (the bulk of most classes in the Pac-12) are going to pan out is difficult. Heck, even the four and five star guys don't always work out either. I think given positional needs and true evaluation of what good coaching can do I'd say Wilcox would consider it a successful class. If you can coach 'em up like Whittingham does you can still win titles and championships. Of course for Cal the first step is to have a winning record in conference.
I got torn away from the Zoom when a good friend called and am hoping they post the recorded Zoom to see, it is far more interesting than Wilcox alone since the position coaches and Saffel talk to and about people.
Here's a really useful site for the latest updates on who's in the Transfer Portal, who has signed out of it etc. You can check by date, status (whether they've committed to a new schoolo) or by school (shows both those outgoing and incoming). As of today, with SC's recent additions they rank top 5 in transfers coming in as USC (with 13 incoming includiing one 5* and 4 4*'s), Ole Miss, LSU, Oklahoma and Florida State. https://247sports.com/Season/2022-Football/TransferPortal/
Class seems to be locked up no complaints and according to the scouting I did for rob and the guys I’m quite alright with what we got here.
Spring schedule released and who is the poster boy on the image? Non other than Daniel Scott, our defense is going to be tough!!! https://calbears.com/news/2022/2/2/several-spring-football-dates-set.aspx
Glad to get Brown in, position of need, and had to fight off both Cincy and Kentucky for him.
I watched the CAL Football Signing Day Zoom call tonight and I have to say my favorite player of the bunch is Jackson Brown. He's big and he has nasty, maybe more than even McCade Mettauer. He's a pile driver and road grader and he has GREAT technique. He is the first truly big man I have seen as a recruit that doesn't get out over his feet and stays low. He may be competing for a spot pretty quickly if he has decent muscle as part of his tonnage.
Most excellent that Cal closed the deal on these players. Perhaps I'm reading too much in Jackson's tweet but it appears that his Dad signed his NLI exactly 40 years ago to-the-day. That is pretty cool and may be the reason for waiting until Feb rather than the early signing day. (for those that don't know, Jackson's Dad has passed away.)
Any young man choosing Cal is making a great choice. Go Bears!
Was sweating out the Jackson Brown thing. Good for guys to explore their options, but that looked iffier and iffier by the day. In the end, Brown became Golden. Go Bears!
I've learned to take the rankings with a grain of salt. Projecting which 3 star recruits (the bulk of most classes in the Pac-12) are going to pan out is difficult. Heck, even the four and five star guys don't always work out either. I think given positional needs and true evaluation of what good coaching can do I'd say Wilcox would consider it a successful class. If you can coach 'em up like Whittingham does you can still win titles and championships. Of course for Cal the first step is to have a winning record in conference.
I got torn away from the Zoom when a good friend called and am hoping they post the recorded Zoom to see, it is far more interesting than Wilcox alone since the position coaches and Saffel talk to and about people.
https://youtu.be/Evvlwwb_hjM
Here's a really useful site for the latest updates on who's in the Transfer Portal, who has signed out of it etc. You can check by date, status (whether they've committed to a new schoolo) or by school (shows both those outgoing and incoming). As of today, with SC's recent additions they rank top 5 in transfers coming in as USC (with 13 incoming includiing one 5* and 4 4*'s), Ole Miss, LSU, Oklahoma and Florida State. https://247sports.com/Season/2022-Football/TransferPortal/
Recruiting is the lifeblood of every program and a class ranked in the 50s or 60s isn’t going to get it done. Disappointing for Wilcox and co.
Any news on Sidney? Hopefully just slow finding an old fashioned fax machine. I'd like a few more Cameron's on the roster...
Hey...slacker that I am I've given up my ESPN Insider subscription...does anyone know were we are ranking this year in recruiting?