Saturday, February 11, 2017

'18 Big 12 Recruiting Snapshot - February

This will be a monthly article, chronicling the recruiting highs and lows of the conference this year.I was going to start this in May but Kansas and that hot start have turned heads so I think doing so now will allow a better point of reference for everyone. Monthly snapshots will be posted around the 15th until further notice.

What's the deal with Kansas?! I've written about it before, relationships matter. I advise you to look into Tony Hull's coaching history and that should eliminate all doubt that relationships aren't important.  Kansas isn't going to keep up this pace, and in all serious likelihood some ,if not most of these kids will ink elsewhere in 2018 but that's ok. Can you remember Jayhawks football having this much positive press in February? Neither can I,

Not how you start, It's how you finish: Piggybacking off the Kansas blurb,  most schools in the league have 0-3 recruits verballed right now, Kansas having 8 is a severe outlier both in the Big 12 and nationally. I've seen people wonder about that on social media, this isn't routine. Schools will begin to pick up commits at a regular clip starting pretty quickly. Junior Days for all programs start up around this time.

2018 League Recruiting Predictions: I expect both Oklahoma and Texas will have strong classes (cause duh). TCU/OSU should be in/around the Top 25- 30 by the end of the year, TCU was hampered by class size this cycle. WVU/Baylor in the late 30's, ISU in the 50's. Kansas, will move into the 50's. The wildcards this cycle are Texas Tech and Kansas State due to Kliff's hot seat and Snyder's health I suspect both programs will have new coaches. a good hire at Tech could move them into the 30's-40's  no matter the start, KSU is just its own being right now so without Snyder i don't even know what to predict.


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