I believe we are starting to see the results of heavier high school recruiting and less juco recruiting.
The last couple of years we have been a lot heavier in high school recruits than what we have historically been. The first thing I am seeing from this change in recruiting is growing depth in just about every position group. Now, they are all still young and many of them we haven't see play yet so how much talent we really have is still unknown.... however, if these kids turn out to be as good as we are hearing through the grapevine they can be then we are going to start experiencing a level of depth across the board that I don't remember ever seeing at K-State. At K-State we are more use to seeing a revolving door of juco guys at many of these positions who most are here for 2 years then gone. You just don't get to build depth in that scenario like you can when most of your recruiting is from the high school ranks.
Just looking at current frosh/soph players
QB - 3 young ones with 2 more planning to sign in Feb.
RB/FB - 7 young ones with 1 more planning to sign in Feb.
WR - 7 young ones with another transfer being eligible next year
TE - 4 young ones with 1 joining the team in Jan.
OL - 7 frosh/soph on current 2 deep, 3-4 more young ones on roster with 5 ready to sign in Feb.
DE - 4 young ones with 2 more ready to sign in Feb
LB - 4 frosh/soph with 1 joining the team in Jan.
CB = 4 frosh/soph (3 of them on current depth chart) with 1 set to join the team in Jan.
The only two positions we are still short on depth will be DT and S
DT - 2 frosh/soph with 2 set to sign in Feb
S - 2 frosh/soph with 1 set to sign in Feb
Now I am sure there will be a certain group of posters on here that will immediately come on here and start telling us how many of these young guys aren't nearly as good as we think they will be. We'll see, they may end up being right but the point I am trying to make is that we are now seeing the level of potential depth you can develop when you are recruiting 90% high school kids each year instead of 60% (randomly picked percentage numbers). You start to get depth like they have at a lot of the programs we are always striving to be like. When you have potential depth like this you have the luxury of allowing the cream to rise to the top. The other guys then will either keep working to try to get on the field or at least keep working to make the guys ahead of them better.... or they transfer. And, if they transfer there will always be a new group of frosh/soph kids coming in working hard and getting themselves ready for their shot.
The last couple of years we have been a lot heavier in high school recruits than what we have historically been. The first thing I am seeing from this change in recruiting is growing depth in just about every position group. Now, they are all still young and many of them we haven't see play yet so how much talent we really have is still unknown.... however, if these kids turn out to be as good as we are hearing through the grapevine they can be then we are going to start experiencing a level of depth across the board that I don't remember ever seeing at K-State. At K-State we are more use to seeing a revolving door of juco guys at many of these positions who most are here for 2 years then gone. You just don't get to build depth in that scenario like you can when most of your recruiting is from the high school ranks.
Just looking at current frosh/soph players
QB - 3 young ones with 2 more planning to sign in Feb.
RB/FB - 7 young ones with 1 more planning to sign in Feb.
WR - 7 young ones with another transfer being eligible next year
TE - 4 young ones with 1 joining the team in Jan.
OL - 7 frosh/soph on current 2 deep, 3-4 more young ones on roster with 5 ready to sign in Feb.
DE - 4 young ones with 2 more ready to sign in Feb
LB - 4 frosh/soph with 1 joining the team in Jan.
CB = 4 frosh/soph (3 of them on current depth chart) with 1 set to join the team in Jan.
The only two positions we are still short on depth will be DT and S
DT - 2 frosh/soph with 2 set to sign in Feb
S - 2 frosh/soph with 1 set to sign in Feb
Now I am sure there will be a certain group of posters on here that will immediately come on here and start telling us how many of these young guys aren't nearly as good as we think they will be. We'll see, they may end up being right but the point I am trying to make is that we are now seeing the level of potential depth you can develop when you are recruiting 90% high school kids each year instead of 60% (randomly picked percentage numbers). You start to get depth like they have at a lot of the programs we are always striving to be like. When you have potential depth like this you have the luxury of allowing the cream to rise to the top. The other guys then will either keep working to try to get on the field or at least keep working to make the guys ahead of them better.... or they transfer. And, if they transfer there will always be a new group of frosh/soph kids coming in working hard and getting themselves ready for their shot.
