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'10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Signed to Colorado)

Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Soft Verbal to Colorado)

AlferdJasper said:
I guess I'm of the mind that if a kid commits, until he de-commits, I hate changing it to "soft verbal" as I don't know what it means.

He's taking visits, okay, but did he say somewhere he was wavering?
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Whatever you want, I was just meddling in your forum :lol:
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

I hate to say it because I really want this kid here but anytime a kid is visiting other places he is not solid. We can call it a strong lean or any number of other things but it means that he is still listening to other schools. Of course none of this from slight lean to solid verbal means anything until his name is on the LOI anyways.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Soft Verbal to Colorado)

AlferdJasper said:
I guess I'm of the mind that if a kid commits, until he de-commits, I hate changing it to "soft verbal" as I don't know what it means.

He's taking visits, okay, but did he say somewhere he was wavering?
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I think we should have left it as it was just because "soft verbal" sounds really disgusting.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

I've always kind of thought that it should be "Verbal to Colorado" until National Signing Day. No one's really committed until then.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

Buffnik said:
I've always kind of thought that it should be "Verbal to Colorado" until National Signing Day. No one's really committed until then.
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Verbal, or committed, works for me.

This "soft" or "softish" or "sorta soft" verbal could be insulting to the player who thinks he's committed.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

I'm good with "whatever." That way the recruiting websites are mostly meaningless until signing day and a lot of the stupid hyperbole could disappear. No, I guess not. Sigh.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

Expect an upgrade to 3* on Rivals when they post his new rating. :thumbsup:
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Softish Verbal to Colorado)

Can we change it back to "verbal commitment" until he announces otherwise?
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

Awesome!
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

Think he ends up elsewhere, but keeping my fingers crossed.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

Rivals has updated his rating. Diribe is now a 3* prospect. :thumbsup:
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

what? A defensive lineman recruit? This can't be right.. :lol:


Need about 4 more Talkins.. :thumbsup:
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

I think he'll end up sticking with the Buffs
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

sliderNcider said:
I think he'll end up sticking with the Buffs
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That would be great. He's a 4* talent who just hasn't played enough football and needs some time to develop.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Verbal to Colorado)

SanDiegoBuff said:
This line is applied to FAR too many of Hawks recruits.
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I totally agree. We're recruiting a lot of raw prospects with some widely-recruited guys sprinkled in. We've got to flip that and winning next year's the only way that happens. Fortunately, we've now built enough depth that guys have a chance to develop. Except for 1 WR and our d-linemen, we were able to redshirt the entire freshman class this year. Opportunity for a special talent to play as a true frosh at CU... but we aren't forced to play guys before they're ready now.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Committed to Colorado)

More excellent recruiting news for tonight: Uzo-Diribe has announced that he is now a solid CU commitment and will not take any more visits. :woot:

Some of you are going to be surprised by this, but... the reason he was a soft verbal before was Hawkins' status. The announcement that Hawkins is back was the reason he changed to a solid commit.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Committed to Colorado)

Buffnik said:
More excellent recruiting news for tonight: Uzo-Diribe has announced that he is now a solid CU commitment and will not take any more visits. :woot:

Some of you are going to be surprised by this, but... the reason he was a soft verbal before was Hawkins' status. The announcement that Hawkins is back was the reason he changed to a solid commit.
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Good for them for staying with the program.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Committed to Colorado)

In the new article http://colorado.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1023034, Diribe confirms his commitment. He also says he will not play basketball this winter because he wants to focus on weight training (particularly upper body strength) so he can come to CU as prepared as possible.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Committed to Colorado)

Hate to say it, but the other offers and visit invites just never came for whatever reason... I believe that is why he is now solid.
 
Re: '10 CA DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe (Committed to Colorado)

2HellNback said:
Hate to say it, but the other offers and visit invites just never came for whatever reason... I believe that is why he is now solid.
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Understandable, and I think we do seem to battle it out against the MAC and such for recruits too much, but I'd say Hawks' under the radar type of recruits work out pretty well. Just going back to last year, West seems like a keeper, and from all reports, Olatoye is a player. Before that Speedy was the epitome of under the radar prospect.

It seems like this year we're going after a lot more lightly recruited types. They are getting bumped up to 3* or so by the services, but the offers seem to be lacking, not sure why. Maybe once they commit and blow up as Seniors, they just told other teams thanks, but no thanks.
 
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