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2016: Recruiting News, Notes & Official Visitors
- Thread starter Buffnik
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Chev was likely recruited by McCartney before you stepped down. He knows what the vision was for Colorado. He knows how effective that sales pitch can be. Glad to have him in charge of recruiting.
Of course they will. Nick Saban told them to.
It's great that Chev is firing up the staff. From an outsiders perspective we needed that. It's a shame we needed that though. Hopefully the next hire(s) will be self motivated and add to the energy.
Couldn't find anything in the player's twitter, but sounds like per the 1st tweet below the Buffs may (???) have offered a Junior college player- safety Toyous Avery from Coffeyville CC, Coffeyville, KS. (From the 2nd tweet, he just de-committed from CSU earlier today.)
http://247sports.com/Player/Toyous-Avery-86039
http://sports.yahoo.com/indiana/football/recruiting/player-Toyous-Avery-186117
HIGH SCHOOL highlights- http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1583591/highlights
JuCo stats- http://www.kjccc.org/sports/fball/2015-16/players/toyousavery2av7
http://247sports.com/Player/Toyous-Avery-86039
http://sports.yahoo.com/indiana/football/recruiting/player-Toyous-Avery-186117
HIGH SCHOOL highlights- http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1583591/highlights
JuCo stats- http://www.kjccc.org/sports/fball/2015-16/players/toyousavery2av7
6'-0", 200lb according to 247. Thats a large safety.
I agree with you. It is such a sad state of affairs that CU is wallowing in the same muck as CSU all these years.
huh:?
Toyous Avery is listed at 6'-0" and 200lbs. Puts him above the average NFL safety in terms of size.
Too small to be a LB though.
that's crazy to me. Safeties have gotten smaller.
Any more, passing games are so advanced that they're basically corners who like to hit. I think of them like baseball centerfielders. Honey Badger's only 5'9", for example, and he's pretty much the prototype for a modern NFL free safety. Another great one is Earl Thomas of the Seahawks (5'10").
Strong Safeties are often bigger, though. Teams are in nickel so much that position ends up being more like an undersized linebacker who can deal with covering these split TEs.
More speed required now. We are seeing it in college now where the safeties from 5-7 years ago are playing LB, the corners are playing safety, and CB's are WR's. Just a shift in philosophy. Obviously in the NFL you have safeties at 6'-2" to 6'-3" and around 235lbs, but those are the exception now.
Seattle has that brutal combo of Chancellor and Thomas, where both guys have their own unique skill set. I would say Kam is the prototype though. 6'3" 230lbs, can cover and lay the wood with the best of them.
Coverage is the key.
A couple decades ago you could get away with playing a safety who was weak in coverage as long as he was strong in run support and was a threat to really hit guys after the catch.
Now a lot of the safties of a couple decades ago would be destroyed by either the OCs or the refs.
Idot Buff
Guest
An ASU buddy (this guy is actually very smart!) sent me a thread from their Rivals site. It is a PDF, so no link. Here is a quote "Colorado's class has to be the worst the PAC has ever seen." Based on the current ranking (avg stars, not cumulative points because of small class size), could these idots be correct?
I doubt it is the worst ever, but probably right with avg. stars.
pwbuffan
Active Member
They may be right because I cannot remember a class that had an average star rating of just 2.5. On paper it looks like a total failure in recruiting.
Nope. The PAC saw worse classes out of Colorado the past 3 years. By definition, this could only be the 4th worst in the history of the PAC. Certainly, even an ASU grad can understand the concept of hyperbole. As bad as CU has been during the entirety of it's PAC existence, there have been worse PAC programs; notably OSU for about 40 years running until about 10 years ago.
GoBuffs08
Well-Known Member
YES
247 has us ranked 12th in the Pac and 81st nationally
Scout has us ranked 12th in the Pac and 72nd nationally
Rivals has us ranked 12th in the Pac and 91st nationally (21 spots behind CSU)
When we still suck 4 years from now this will be why.
It is great to see the Camera paying attention to recruiting.
GoBuffs08
Well-Known Member
Not to the schools and the fans that don't have any. They have hidden gems that nobody else knows about.
pwbuffan
Active Member
Actually the PAC saw better classes out of CU the previous three years. All three were higher in number and average stars just so you know.
Sykobuff
Well-Known Member
It does when half your class is 2 stars.
ouch
