TOB – Landing Recruits From Germany

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Here’s the press release – maybe one of our enterprising readers can post a translation in the comments below.

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30 Responses to TOB – Landing Recruits From Germany

  1. camo-pack98 01/30/2007 at 7:01 PM #

    viernheim was about 15 mins from my house in germany

  2. Sw0rdf1sh 01/30/2007 at 8:57 PM #

    I’m stoked we can find global talent. There are people who play the GAME across the world and never get it realized.

    I do have concerns what this means “rather schmächtigen boy “. Hopefully it roughly transleted to “rather kickyourfaceinthangiveup6 boy” and me and him will do fine.

    In fact, I have to say across the board the last year or two has given me much more respect to our recruits (and any high school recruit) than I have had in the past.

    You go schmächtigen. You kick their face in. I’ll cheer….right from my seats near the jumbotron. Hell, I might even get a jersey that says schmächtigen.

  3. packman12 01/30/2007 at 11:00 PM #

    Frank I also picked up on your observation we have no players committed from Fla. How can you build a top program w/o that state? Rutgers is stacked with players from Fla. because their coach used to be an assit. at Miami. Chuck had the right idea-he just didn’t pull it off. We’ll see what TOB does next year. Does he even have any assit. coaches with Fla. ties?

  4. noah 01/31/2007 at 10:00 AM #

    “You expected Brian Clark to make the NFL? He did show that talent as a freshman, but didn’t envision it prior to watching him play.

    What do you think of this year’s class so far?”

    I was extremely pissed when Amato played Clark for about four plays as a true freshman. I had seen him in a couple of practices and thought he was one of the better receiving prospects we had signed. He had hands of glue and terrific size. When the QBs would throw to him, he caught everything on his fingertips like Torry Holt did. He never let the ball get inside (where it can bounce off your chest).

    I don’t know what he ran in the 40, but in drills, he always was able to use his quickness to get inside or outside of his man (whichever the route called for).

    It was a huge, huge waste to burn his freshman year for so little production.

    I think this year’s class is about as good as we could reasonably expect at this point.

    We’ve got three guys from Hargrave that should be solid contributors fairly early on.

    Lamarcus Bond – I still think he ends up at CB, but I’m apparently the only one. I know a lot of people think of him being very similar to Tramain Hall.

    Owen Spencer – He needs to gain weight, but he’s got good size and speed and should be a pretty solid receiver.

    Jimmaul Simmons – I think he ends up at linebacker, simply because we’re desperate for OLBs. He’s fast enough to play safety and I think he played a little corner, but I think he could be a guy like Duan Everett or Cory Lyons for us. Fast enough to drop into coverage against a TE or running back, but strong enough to come up in run support.

    We’ve got the two JUCO guys, Ruiz and Antoine Holmes, who I hope will contribute next year. If Holmes speed and athleticism is legit, he ought to (at the very least) give us pretty good depth at DE. Hopefully, he could be a guy like Terrance Chapman whose able to step in and be a solid pass rusher. Ruiz is probably going to be our first string punter (whcih means we won’t have to pray Nathan Franklin or the other kicker with the funny name won’t have to “develop” into one).

    It’s a pretty solid class of OL. This was Amato’s downfall, IMO. Until the last couple of years, he never made OL a priority (or perhaps he did and just failed miserably and totally in his efforts to sign any).

    Mike Golder and Henry Lawson and Justin Whaley are all probably interior guys at either center or guard. Desmond Roberts and Jake Vermiglio are probably both tackles. Roberts can also play center, but I’d think you would want to take advantage of his height and footspeed outside. George Bryan is supposed to be up to 270 and with his athleticism and height, he might end up at tackle as well.

    At the very least, I hope that those guys mean we don’t see any walk-on off. linemen in our two-deep for the next five years.

    On the defensive line, I don’t know anything about the Wayne Crawford. But JR Sweezy and Kyle Linney are interesting prospects. I think Sweezy might be one of those guys that ends up gaining weight and becomes a quick, stocky DT. Jeff Rieskamp is another interesting one. He’s from one of those Ohio Catholic schools that turn out tons of great football players every year. I imagine that we’re going to be hitting those schools a lot.

    You can find a lot of Billy Ray Haynes-type guys there every year — players with tons of heart, who go balls-out every play and who get lost in the shuffle because of what they may lack in “measurables.” I *like* measureables…but provided you don’t have a whole team of ’em, the guys with a ton of heart can play a key role.

    I haven’t seen any of the skills players, but Ronald Wilson and Jay Smith both have pretty big reputations. Wilson was supposed to be one of the more impressive QBs that we’ve had in our camp. He’s small, but that’s a bigger deal in the NFL than it is in college.

    Jay Smith? I don’t have anything to say about him. I’ll wait to say more.

    Yes, Tom O’Brien has contacts in Florida. If you think back to the winning touchdown against BC this year, the safety who came over and clocked Dunlap, tyring to knock the ball loose, was Larry Anam. He’s a safety from S. Florida that we went after a few years ago.

  5. Mr O 01/31/2007 at 10:21 AM #

    Thanks Noah.

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