re: 2017 Taylor Hamm Recruiting VIP Info Thread

that's all pretty reasonable. Our DE room could use work so keep an eye on that

2017 - commitments in ()

SR - J Johnson, Cunningham
JR - Durham
SO - (Clemons)
FR - Madubuike, (Ty Johnson), (Robinson)

I think we have a mind to take another JUCO DE just to fill out the pipeline because next year you'd only have 2 upper classmen, one of whom is a squad guy and the other won't practice with us til next fall. That's a bit unnerving. The guy we're looking at is Kinlaw who already has an OV setup for our big weekend in January.

And a big concern is Johnson continues taking visits. I think we'd like to take 3 HS DEs this year so even if we add Jones, I don't think we can afford to lose Johnson. If we did, we'd be back in the JUCO market next year again you'd have to think.

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Do we take another OL?

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I don't think so. I'm pretty sure when we took Moore that shut the door on 17 OL recruiting. But I'm not going to swear to that because the Hocker injury has us concerned. On that note, was told Hocker and Blumrick will not be enrolling early due to their respective injuries.

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So we have 6 spots left. Who else are we going to get? Just going off CB and stuff I have seen (no subscriptions anywhere), below are my guesses. 1 RB Etienne LINK 1 CB Sheffield LINK 1 DE Jones LINK 1 or 2 DT Wilson LINK of course would be the gold medal, Bethley LINK looks more likely 1 LB Levi Jones LINK seems to be trending out way after LSU apparently backed off him. Do we take another OL? I have not seen much news on him since he couldn't play his senior year but I would think we would still have a chance with Zabie LINK

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So looks like there is a chance we won't land any of these, pretty crappy way to end recruiting.