Good morning and happy Friday, Cougs! We're just a couple weeks away from National Signing Day and Mike Leach and his crew are working on the finishing touches for the recruiting class of 2013. Wazzu has received a couple more commitments since my last look at the class. I was hoping there would be several more on board before the next time I fired up the Bridgeport Pumped-O-Meter, but I've got an itchy trigger finger and had to rate the latest unofficial future Cougs. According to the good folks at Cougfan, this weekend will be a busy one for official visits on the Palouse so maybe there will be some new players to rate early next week. In the meantime, let's take a look at Paulo Lepua and Isaac Dotson.
Paulo Lepua – DE – Harbor City, CA
Bridgeport Pumped-O-Meter Score: 10
A surefire way for a recruit to get a 10 for the POM is for news of his commitment to cause me to fist pump. A teenager tells a middle-aged man he'd like to play football on his team and I react as though I, personally, had just accomplished something athletically…yeah, I'm pretty pumped. Also, I've misplaced my priorities in life, but we already knew that. As for why I was so excited for Lepua, he's a big, bad dude who looks like a perfect fit in the Breske defense (short hair notwithstanding). He appears to be Xavier Cooper-esque in that he'll probably be able to rotate either inside or outside. He comes from a big time program in California and reportedly had multiple other Pac 12 offers. Besides all that, he had me at Lepua. He had me at Lepua.
Isaac Dotson – ATH – Bellevue, WA
Bridgeport Pumped-O-Meter Score: 9
I'm a sucker for narrative and I enjoy Dotson's recruiting narrative. Wanting to play quarterback in college, he originally commited to Nevada to have that chance. A coaching change in Reno and a visit to Pullman later, My Main Man Ike decided the chance to fulfill a dream of playing in the Pac-12 for the Cougs was too good a chance to pass up, position be damned. I'd like to see him at least get a look at quarterback somewhere along the line, but he appears to be in "whatever position gets me on the field" mode which is pretty awesome, especially for an athlete of his caliber. All of that said, his lack of position confused the Pumped-O-Meter so he had to be docked a punt. And yes, by confused the Pumped-O-Meter, I mean confused me.
There is much more work to be done the next couple weeks to lock down old commitments and hopefully pick up some new ones. We'll be watching closely at WSUFBB headquarters as we gear up for our Signing Day lack of productiviy extravaganza. For an otherwise slow time of year, this gives us something to obsess over for a little while and that's always fun. Go Cougs.
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