'18 Big 12 Recruiting Snapshot - March

It's time once again to get back into the swing of things with CFB recruiting and Big 12 recruiting in particular. It's still early, but this is the second update of the '18 cycle, here be post number one


General Housekeeping:  Still kind of slow in researching recruiting needs/restriction for all the Big 12 teams at this point. I'll get on that and next months will be more in depth on each team so far as roster needs.

KU: Kansas still leading the pack buoyed by a foursome of Louisiana prospects despite some high quality decommitments last month .Leader of the pack for KU at this point is four star wr Devonta Jason, t will be a major coup for Kansas to hold on to him. KU has not picked up any new commitments since the February Recruiting Snapshot.

OU:  Sooner specific update coming tonight/tomorrow.  Oklahoma's top prospect is five-star OT Brey Walker - who is controversially the #2 in my OK Preps ranking. Oklahoma added in state three-star safety Patrick Fields since the Feb snapshot.

TCU:  Frogs added two prospects since the last updated, including the current headliner to their class in four-star safety Atanza Vongor

OSU: Pokes added my #8 rated Ok Preps prospect in three-star prospect OT Hunter Anthony. Dual Threat QB Spencer Sanders remains the bell cow

Baylor: One of the few teams I know a bit about: Baylor is going to be attempting to replenish their  line depth in a major way, and that shows early as Rhule has already accepted the commitments of three offensive line prospects. Bears have added two commits since the last update, both on the OL in Casey Phillips and Ylijaah Hall.

Tech: No change since Feb snapshot, Top recruit remains four-star WR Gabriel Douglas 

Texas: First commit of the Herman era at Texas is a Florida boy, that trend didn't work out so well for Strong. Justin Watkin is a four-star WR. Recruits are said to be taking a wait and see appoach with Texas this year.

WVU: No new prospects for WVU, three-star in state DT James Gmiter is the lone Mountaineer at this point

ISU: ISU got on the board with Wisconsin three-star DE Will McDonald hoping on board late last month

KSU: N/A way way too much in the air with Snyder's health. Recruiting will be slower than usual for KSU.

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March Projected Order of Finish

#1 Oklahoma

#2 TCU

#3 Texas

#4 Ok State

#5 Baylor

#6 WVU

#7 ISU

#8 Tech

#9 Kansas

#10 Kansas State

'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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