Per the P-I recruiting roundup:
• Doba said the foot surgery on starting defensive tackle Feveae’i Ahmu was more complicated than expected and said he might miss the season. Ahmu never has redshirted and will be a junior in the fall.
GREAT. Here we go again. What is it with the health of these d-tackles that they just can’t stay healthy? I’d love to see what Ahmu could do for a full season, because he has shown serious flashes. Who knows, maybe a medical redshirt is in order for this year and he can come back in ’08 healthy as a redshirt junior.
So the signing class is in, and the reviews are typically poor. 10 out of 10 in the conference, no matter how you look at it. But stars, shmars, we’ll see how these guys pan out. Remember some of our most hyped recruits in the past few years never made it (Estes? Dietriechs?). Unless you sign a top-10 class loaded with 4-star talent up and down the board, it’s almost impossible to project who is going to be good and who will be a bust, but speculation is what recruiting is all about.
USC was the winner out west and between 1 and 3 in the country. Getting the RB from Louisiana, McKnight, was just huge. Oregon really hit a home run yesterday. #8 in the nation, they got some serious talent and look to be a factor in the Pac-10 the next few years. Cal was right behind Oregon and we should be used to Tedford getting a top-15 class on an annual basis. And, yes, UW signed a pretty strong class, the best in Willingham’s era by far.
Finally, my role at AOL is changing a bit. Instead of handling the WSU beat, I’m also going to be covering the NW Pac-10 schools, plus Stanford, on a daily basis. It’s a new approach by AOL, going with the idea of less single-minded coverage and more of a spread-it-around approach. I figure it’s the right way to go, you cover more teams regularly, you are going to get more hits, and that’s what it’s all about. At least for the next year anyway, that’s the plan. So you’ll probably see less in regards to all the over-analysis on a daily basis for our Cougs, but sometimes less is more!
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