Shawn Curtis

[tep624]

Has he visited here yet? We need him here the weekend when all of the other commits/recruits are here. Sell him up.

Yeah he already visited for UCONN as was said above too...he did have a lot of positive things to say about the coaching staff and the players here, sounded like he's made some good connections. Again, from what I've read, even though he says there is no leader, it sounds like Wake is sitting in a pretty good position.

 

[PhatOrange]

uh oh, according to the cyclone report.com syracuse has dropped out. they're (rivals) is listing iowa state, wake and miss state.

 

[wfschrec]

uh oh, according to the cyclone report.com syracuse has dropped out. they're (rivals) is listing iowa state, wake and miss state.

Dropped out or were they eliminated? If they dropped out maybe they snared a verbal from a bigger fish?

 

[orangeintheacc]

Dropped out or were they eliminated? If they dropped out maybe they snared a verbal from a bigger fish?

According to 247 he is announcing tomorrow (Monday) between ISU, Wake and Miss. State. SU has apparently fallen out.

 

[Aweart23]

According to 247 he is announcing tomorrow (Monday) between ISU, Wake and Miss. State. SU has apparently fallen out.

Scout is reporting we are out of it as well...

 

[JackBauer44]

John Garcia Jr. ‏@JohnGarcia_Jr Looks like Orlando (Fla.) Olympia 3-star OL Shawn Curtis picked #IowaState today. Nice get for the Cyclones

We knew he wasn't coming here, but it makes getting a quality JUCO pretty important now.

 

[Whitey23]

Wow...Can't believe Iowa St. beat us out? We need Officer now or Pugh to stay which both seem unlikely??

Sounds like neither are going to happen. Have to look JUCO.

 

[DPCuse]

I saw a tweet that said Officer had a great visit at PSU.

 

[CaliCuse]

John Garcia Jr. ‏@JohnGarcia_Jr Looks like Orlando (Fla.) Olympia 3-star OL Shawn Curtis picked #IowaState today. Nice get for the Cyclones

Thats a "damn"!!We need at least one solid player in that grouping. Losing Curtis and in all probability Officer sucks. Give me Ebo and Laray and this is still a huge big time class in quality if not quantity.

 

[tep624]

Really surprised by this one. I knew we weren't going to land him, but I'm surprised it wasn't Wake. They had the last visit and he raved about them, guess his parents have property near the campus too. Nice job Iowa State on this one.

 

[tep624]

I saw a tweet that said Officer had a great visit at PSU.

Doesn't have a PSU offer yet though.

 

[Whitey23]

Doesn't have a PSU offer yet though.

Weird. You'd figure they'd be waving 'em in.

 

[tep624]

Weird. You'd figure they'd be waiving 'em in.

I know - makes me wonder, it's not like PSU recruiting is on fire after the scandal. The only quality recruits they have are guys they've been guilting into not decommitting.

If he was a semi decent prospect, i would have expected them to offer, so I'm beginning to wonder where he even ranks on the SU pecking order.

 

[bnoro]

Wow...Can't believe Iowa St. beat us out? We need Officer now or Pugh to stay which both seem unlikely??

We weren't in this for a while. Like the last month or so we haven't been in it. Officer is not coming here. Pugh is 99.9% to the NFL. It's going to be a JUCO stopgap or one of our frosh stepping up opposite Hickey next year.

 

[orangenauburn]

We weren't in this for a while. Like the last month or so we haven't been in it. Officer is not coming here. Pugh is 99.9% to the NFL. It's going to be a JUCO stopgap or one of our frosh stepping up opposite Hickey next year.

agree

we whiffed on line prospects this year

need to land 5-6 next year

 

[Noexcuse]

Doesn't have a PSU offer yet though.

Pretty sure they are limited in the number they can give out. Sounds like he's a Plan B for them.

 

[wfschrec]

Pretty sure they are limited in the number they can give out. Sounds like he's a Plan B for them.

Aren't they down to 65 schollies after the sanctions?

 

[tep624]

Pretty sure they are limited in the number they can give out. Sounds like he's a Plan B for them.

And he may be for us too. The problem in a lot of this is that people say we whiffed on Officer - did we or have we cooled on him? Officer had a lot of hype early on in the recruiting cycle but who knows what's going on with him. Did the staff lose interest? Did he? Was it mutual? Does anyone even know?

Pretty obvious that we were hard after Curtis because he did visit, he visited by himself, and it was pretty clear that the staff spent some time on him. But Officer's recruitment has been vague at best.

 

[SUfaninAZ]

Aren't they down to 65 schollies after the sanctions?

15 per year for next 4 years I think.

 

[wfschrec]

15 per year for next 4 years I think.

So 70 .. I was pretty close ... no margin for error whatsoever.

 

[Ottoble]

I guess we better hope that omari Palmer et al develop in the offseason as the staff had expected that said I would expect a few jucos also.

 

[TDTOrange]

So 70 .. I was pretty close ... no margin for error whatsoever.

You were right the first time. Limited to 65 overall scholarships for the next 4 years.

The other half of the reduction is that they're only allowed 15 initial scholarships (rather than the regular 25) for the next 4 years, which basically means incoming freshman/JUCOs.

 

[wfschrec]

You were right the first time. Limited to 65 overall scholarships for the next 4 years.

The other half of the reduction is that they're only allowed 15 initial scholarships (rather than the regular 25) for the next 4 years, which basically means incoming freshman/JUCOs.

Oh ok ... having only 65 means they have to be dead nuts on with recruiting .. no room for mistakes ... and whats worse is they can't be a selector school with all the damage done to their reputation ... no bowls for a while ... they have a tough climb. I think that is why Officer doesn't have an offer yet ... not sure he fills an absolute need and with limited schollies you have to address the most immediate needs first.