Beaver Fans, Your Time Will Come

There will be a new way of evaluating college football recruits that I am covering. I will now be giving the player’s complete profile, including my evaluation and study of tape of the recruits.  From that point, I will rate the recruit by using a grading process, for example, if a player is one of the best college players in the country, the final grade would be an A+ for that particular recruit. If a player is mediocre, then his grade would be a C+ and so forth.  This is an easier way for me to evaluate talent, and project the players at the next level.

Most Beaver fans are very loyal to OSU, but how long can one wait to see their team rise to the top of the Pac? One fan explained his frustration and took his anger about the program out on Head Coach Mike Riley. “Now, I look at Riley and see a great coach who is too nice to accomplish anything. He just doesn’t carry himself like he gives a damn.”  My opinion of Coach Riley is high, but I tend to agree with this fan. Riley is optimistic to a fault. Sometimes a coach needs to be a red hot, hard ass to accomplish the goals of a program, and Riley is the opposite of that. This follows in his recruiting tendencies. He has had his moments of getting a player or two in a particular class/year, but never has been able to put a top notch class. This is important because I believe coaching and recruiting are the two most important things in college football.

To win in this day and age, you have to be ahead of the curve, which OSU and Riley haven’t been able to do. Another key setback is the team up north of Corvallis in Eugene. More and more Beaver fans are jumping ship and hopping on the duck bandwagon each year of the Ducks success, which is growing each year.  This year’s class tends to be lackluster, without many standout recruits, from what I gathered in evaluation of each player’s video tape from their high schools as of now.  The key player in this class is a local kid, Isaac Seumalo, who is a monster off the ball, playing Offensive Tackle, and probably will play right or left tackle at Oregon State.  Here is the rest of the beaver’s class of 2012, which features heavy targeting at the offensive line position.

• Malik Gilmore- Lakewood High School, Lakewood, California/6’3 195 lbs/Wide Receiver/ Grade- B-

• Cleveland Wallace-  Oak Grove High School, San Jose California/ DB/ 6’1 170 lbs/ Grade- B

• Brent Vanderveen- Arroyo Grande High School, Arroyo Grande, California/ QB/ 6’5 203 lbs/ Grade – C+

• Garrett Weinreich – Arroyo Grande High School, Arroyo Grande, California/ OL/  6’6 290 lbs/ Grade -C+

• Dustin Stanton-  Lakewood High School, Marysville, Washington/ TE/ 6’6 210 lbs./Grade-  C+

• Caleb Smith- Kentridge High School, Renton, Washington,  TE/ 6’7 240 lbs./Grade-  C

• Isaac Seumalo-  Corvallis High School, Corvallis, Oregon/ 6’3 280 lbs/ OL/ Grade-B+

• Josh Mitchell- Mount Si High School, Snoqualmie, Washington/OL/ 6’3 273 lbs/ Grade- C

• Joel Skotte-   Mountain View High School, Bend, Oregon/ LB/ 6’2 225 lbs/ Grade- C+

• Caleb Saulo-  Kentlake High School, Kent, Washington, LB/ 6’2 218 lbs/ Grade- C

• Kendall Hill- La Marque High School, La Marque, Texas/ DB/ 6’3 175/ Grade- C+

• Chris Brown- San Joaquin Memorial High School, Fresno, California/ Grade- B

• Chris Miller – Diamond Ranch High School, Pomona, California/ DB/ 6’1 195 lbs./ Grade -B-

• Chase Eldredge –  Palos Verdes High School, Palos Verdes Estates, California/ OL/ 6’4 260 lbs./ Grade- C

• Gavin Andrews – Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay California/ OL/ 6’5 280 lbs./ Grade- B

• Grant Bays- Oceanside High School, Oceanside, California/OL/  6’3 290 lbs./ Grade-  B

These are my evaluations of each recruit and more recruits will be added before and on Signing Day in early February.