Cumulative Ratings of Badger Commitments

Bernman · Post #1 » by **Bernman** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:16 pm

This is a system that another fellow Badger fan and I developed at Recruiting Planet, to find out what the "experts" are saying about our recruits. It should be informative for casual and die hard recruting fans alike.

Enjoy (I hope)

http://www.recruitingplanet.com/forum/w ... index.html

Post #2 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:22 pm

Nice work.

brewcityboii · Post #3 » by **brewcityboii** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:28 pm

This is pretty cool

thx.

Is Marcus Cromartie any relation to Antonio from the chargers?

Ill-yasova · Post #4 » by **Ill-yasova** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:07 pm

well done guys

LUKE23 · Post #5 » by **LUKE23** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:23 pm

brewcityboii wrote:This is pretty cool

thx.

Is Marcus Cromartie any relation to Antonio from the chargers?

I don't believe so, Antonio is from Florida and Marcus is from Texas. Could be wrong though.

bigkurty · Post #6 » by **bigkurty** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:04 am

Damn that looks like a good class right there. Thanks for the info.

Ill-yasova · Post #7 » by **Ill-yasova** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:49 am

Nice to see a Wisco guy on there. Figures it would be a lineman.
Would like to see height and weight on there too, if at all possible.

Ayt · Post #8 » by **Ayt** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:05 pm

Nice work. Thanks for the link. I'm hoping BB focuses heavily on athletic guys along the DL over the coming seasons. We need a lot of speed at all positions on D for the schemes we run, but the athletes along the line are lacking right now.

I like that the QB is rated pretty highly.

xTitan · Post #9 » by **xTitan** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:25 pm

I was told by a friend he heard Wes Kemp was no longer a solid commit and was considering Missouri among others, anyone know if there is truth to that?

Bernman · Post #10 » by **Bernman** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:05 am

Ill-yasova wrote:Nice to see a Wisco guy on there. Figures it would be a lineman.
Would like to see height and weight on there too, if at all possible.

You can access height, weight, and a lot more by clicking on the verbal commitment thread stickied to the top on the Badger board. There's a thread started for every one of our commitments and virtually all of our known prospects.

brewcityboii wrote:Is Marcus Cromartie any relation to Antonio from the chargers?

I can tell you almost certainly he's not a close relative.

xtitan wrote:I was told by a friend he heard Wes Kemp was no longer a solid commit and was considering Missouri among others, anyone know if there is truth to that?

He flirted with Mizzou, but his status was updated this weekend, and he claimed to be 100 percent Badger. Then again DE Brendan Kelly said he was 100 percent Gopher, a couple days later he decommits, and now he's believed to be an imminent Badger commitment. No out of state commitment is realistically 100 percent. They aren't ingrained with unconditional love for the Badger program. I'd bet against him decommitting, but I wouldn't be shocked. Missouri is rolling, they play an attractive style of offense, probably have a better depth chart, Henry Mason is having health problems of course, a lot of his friends appear headed to Mizzou. There's a lot going in the Tigers favor. But he said he fell in love with Madison on his initial visit. A decommit would sting a bit, but wide receiver/tight end is not a position of imminent need.

Ayt wrote:I'm hoping BB focuses heavily on athletic guys along the DL over the coming seasons. We need a lot of speed at all positions on D for the schemes we run, but the athletes along the line are lacking right now.

I don't think athleticism along the D-Line was the biggest issue this year, but rather; size, ability to hold position, and depth. The D-Line was undersized and overworked, and as a result our undersized, but athletic backers had to absorb too many blocks. Badgers need a mauler defensive tackle. If he has athleticism; bonus. Darius Parish from Kansas (decommit from Nebraska) looks like a player who would fit your qualification, and we might have the inside track. He's huge, but needs to get stronger and use better technique. Great potential though if we can toughen him up in the weight room. You can develop strength more than quickness. Badgers might take a JUCO DT as well (Blake Ferras). Not much information about him. They're being forced to scramble because BB put an inadequate amount of emphasis on the D-Line his first year and half of recruiting for whatever reason. A lot of recruitniks saw these issues coming.

The most impressive recruit that the Badgers are seriously pursuing right now is running back Mark Ingram Jr., son of the former Packer receiver. I'd rate him a 10 prospect, even though the services rank him at a 7-8. Late bloomer. Put up gaudy stats this season (2 300 yard games, and 1 400 yarder). Has an ideal running back frame at 5-10, 202 and runs a 4.4. Runs low to the ground, good quickness, shiftiness, top speed, strength. Just visited for the Michigan game and was impressed enough he's scheduling a return visit for a basketball game. Always a great sign.

El Duderino · Post #11 » by **El Duderino** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:04 am

The D-Line was undersized and overworked

I was very concerned about depth at DLine going into this season, it seemed to me that we've under recruited that area of the team in past classes. They've been signing alot of DB's, WR's, and offensive lineman and IMO not enough on the defensive line.

I'll admit that i'm more a casual observer with college recruiting. I read up on the Wisconsin Scout site here and there each year to read up on recruiting, but not to the degree many others do. So maybe my belief that the Badgers have under recruited the defensive line is off base and it's more that some guys didn't pan out, some might have switched positions from DLine, and Cooper did get suspended. It just seemed to me that we had boatloads or receivers and DB's, but DT was especially thin and DE wasn't much better.

ahagen87 · Post #12 » by **ahagen87** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:28 pm

Does anyone know the status of DT Willie Mobley and where he stands right now...it seems like he was all but committed to ohio st. but now i see hes not quite sure and i was wondering if that means hes possibly looking at wisconsin or is he looking more at minn. like everything ive read has been saying.

Bernman · Post #13 » by **Bernman** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:00 pm

El Duderino wrote:
The D-Line was undersized and overworked

I was very concerned about depth at DLine going into this season, it seemed to me that we've under recruited that area of the team in past classes. They've been signing alot of DB's, WR's, and offensive lineman and IMO not enough on the defensive line.

I'll admit that i'm more a casual observer with college recruiting. I read up on the Wisconsin Scout site here and there each year to read up on recruiting, but not to the degree many others do. So maybe my belief that the Badgers have under recruited the defensive line is off base and it's more that some guys didn't pan out, some might have switched positions from DLine, and Cooper did get suspended. It just seemed to me that we had boatloads or receivers and DB's, but DT was especially thin and DE wasn't much better.

Your perception wasn't off. They flat out didn't offer that many guys unless they were being secretive. And I doubt they were considering the results. They made about 3-4 offers to true DT's in the '08 class up until recently. Meanwhile they offered around 13 RB's and about 15 players who project to safety. Now they're telling pretty good backs and safeties they aren't recruiting the position anymore. It seems to me they should have been more selective with RB's and Safeties, but less so with DT's. We offered a similarly low number of DT's last year and had to scramble late with Jasper Grimes. I haven't really heard anything positive about the guy in practice. He received zero offers the entire process. Duane Zlatnik would have been a great fit for Wisconsin this year. 3-4 time state wrestling championship. Put up awesome numbers on both sides of the ball, so you know he's athletic too. But it looks like he'll be Jayhawk.

Does anyone know the status of DT Willie Mobley and where he stands right now...it seems like he was all but committed to ohio st. but now i see hes not quite sure and i was wondering if that means hes possibly looking at wisconsin or is he looking more at minn. like everything ive read has been saying.

I've been told from a fairly reliable source that's practically a done deal for the Buckeyes.

Mags FTW · Post #14 » by **Mags FTW** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:28 pm

Is Marcus Cromartie related to Antonio?

Bernman · Post #15 » by **Bernman** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:31 am

The Badgers received a commitment from another defensive end in Brendan Kelly from Minnesota.

http://www.recruitingplanet.com/forum/w ... #post24798

MikeIsGood · Post #16 » by **MikeIsGood** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:05 am

Bern, I haven't been around RP lately - sorry. But regardless, nice job on the list and I'm sure you're just as unsurprised as me that Kelly is a Badger. But nonetheless, great commit IMO. Not sure the closing of this class could (realistically) get much better than Parrish, Stoller, and Ingram.

Bernman · Post #17 » by **Bernman** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:49 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:Bern, I haven't been around RP lately - sorry. But regardless, nice job on the list and I'm sure you're just as unsurprised as me that Kelly is a Badger. But nonetheless, great commit IMO. Not sure the closing of this class could (realistically) get much better than Parrish, Stoller, and Ingram.

Don't sweat it Mike. That situation is easily rectifiable by hanging out more in the present. I went on a rant in the Zlatnik thread about negative recruiting. Come give your opinion and the 411 on Zlatnik's status.