Does anyone have any knowledge of new recruits who will be in this semester and that will participate in spring ball???

If I could only have three they would be the three. Gdowski and Dixon get to bring Murray and Boland into the offense. Vick gets to become buds with Murray like TT with Foster. Check the link. Murray will help right away. Daz, Murray and Cochran are playmakers. Who becomes the possession receiver, Landon Smith or a TE???

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/2470862/highlights/101684396

I did find out WR Spencer Schnell is enrolled this semester. Due to NCAA transfer rules he will be redshirting, but have 4 years to play.

I talked to my contact in Indiana and he sent me some links. Here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Gqdy98-eY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTBG7XmRu1A

again his HUDL account has this as his senior highlight:
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/264885/spencer-schnell

he coached against the kid and said he went for 18 catches 295 yards and 3 TD's against the state runner up in the largest class in Indiana.. said he's a 4.6 kid. HUDL had him at 101-1448-11 receiving. Not a TALL WR and we did miss out on Roger Lewis, but he seems like he's a playmaker.

My question is, is it true that Greg Windham is back? If so, how do you guys see him playing out in the long term? Obviously Vick's job to lose.

Misinformation. For my part, I am sorry. Still, I remain excited about spring practice. I believe the Bobcats continue the march on bigger, stronger and faster.

Also noted Tyree Graves just arrived at a Kansas juco per twitter..

Ernie Hodge may be the one exception i can think of right off the bat. Tim Edmond - too early to tell.

bcat, he's not talking about JUCOs, he's talking about marginal academic qualifiers. I think that saying "never" is a bit harsh, but it is true that the success rate hasn't been great. The list of players that didn't work out is long, actually longer than Paul's list, and not all with the same result. Some never arrived. Others came, but didn't stay. Others came after a year in prep school, or two years in Juco.

Players that Never Arrived (fails) - Robert Hightower, Vince Harris, Brad Spivey, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Kenny Ashley, Mike Roberts
Players that did qualify, but didn't stay long (mixed/fails) - Gary Fortune, Pete D'Aguanno
Players that qualified late (successes) - Lechner for sure, and there have been others
Players that did qualify after a year of Prep School (successes) - Robert Mercer, Vince Davidson, Chris Garrett
Players that did qualify after 2 years of Juco (successes) - Omar Leftwich, Octavious Leftwich, Tim Edmond, Kadre Pinder (but didn't stay long)

So, there have been some successes, too, notably Davidson,  Garrett, Lechner, and the Leftwiches, and it's too early to tell on Murray, Clark and Edmond at this point. I am drawing a blank on the name "Rogers" that Paul lists, though.

The one thing that I think Paul misses is that I think they expect and plan for this, so it isn't really "a failure", it is an intentional thing. Say they have 24 available scholarships, and they have a couple they would like to award to walkons. They take 24 verbals, knowing a couple won't qualify, and then give those 2 to the walkons, then hope to get the non-qualifiers back later as a Juco. The alternative would be to just give 22, and skip the non-qualifiers. The way they are doing it isn't the only way it can be done, but it is pretty common, I think.

Where they have done exceptionally well in this area is where they have recruited directly from Prep schools such as Fork Union and Hargrave. The list of those successes is long, and the list of failures is few:
Fork Union Graduates - Mark Parson, Skyler Allen, Jamil Shaw, Jelani Woseley
Hargrave Graduates - Ernie Hodge, Horrace Hubbard, Tyrell Basham, Kyle Kozak

Don't be a dr. doom naysayer, L.C.