Despite the on field struggles. The recruiting efforts are creating buzz!  Poll?

There is not a single coach in the Country that could get this team with the lack of talent and injuries we have to win 5 or 6 games.

Your complaints about this season being the worst in CU history are legit. But the blame falls on Hawkins for doing a horrible job of recruiting for years. With the exception of the true freshman, these are Hawkins’ players out there playing. Not Embree’s fault.

Embree has the incredible task of rebuilding this program from almost nothing.

So what buzz? Here’s a few off the top of my head.
- How about the fact that we have two 4 star TE’s who are committed to Arizona and USC who are considering a switch to CU?
- A QB who transferred to CU (over other good options) from Texas that was a 4 star QB out of high school.
- Signed the 13th ranked QB for 2012.
- 10 of our 13 current commitments hold offers from other BCS schools. So how can you say that there are a bunch of recruits where we are their best offer? Pretty sure our team is worse than most any BCS team out there.
- More top end recruits are taking a look at CU, just look at the recruiting sites. But we’ll have to wait to see which ones commit.

I don’t know how this staff could do much better. Would that be impressive if we were USC? No! I think you’re expecting a miracle and you need to realize what kind of situation we’re in.

I can’t make a negative judgment about any of the current staff until I see what they do with actual talent on the field. What do you want the coaches to do about special teams. In ONE year, they’ve got a way better kicker and punter. But the depth on the team is so awful that the players on special teams can’t hack it!

I know we all want to see instant success with this team. But after our program was burned to the ground. You’ll need to be happy with what we got or just keep expecting miracles.

Considering the talent level he has with injuries or lack of depth, i don’t expect something genius to come out this

Think about it, if we had a line that could pass block longer, recievers who were not hurt, more talented (exception Richardson), QB who had a stronger and more accurate arm, then i think you’d see the passing game open a lot.

Nothing against our offense, but injuries and level of capability will really dictate what an O Coordinator can do.

I like you Broncoman, you’re ALWAYS positive and that’s cool (you’re my opposite on this site). Your points are solid but there are always going to be arguments both ways on the whole recruiting rankings thing. For every Boise that wins with low ranked classes there are 10 Alabamas, Oklahomas, and LSUs that always get top ranked classes and are always good. It definitely means something. As frustrating as Ryan Miller has been at times he was a 4-year starter and is still considered a NFL-prospect, who knows what he would of done if he was coached up a little more. D. Scott is leading his team in rushing and averaging 5.7 ypc, the book is definitely still open on him. I don’t think you can say the rankings were “wrong” on those two. Kasa sure, no argument from me there.

You mentioned the Texas thing and I probably should mentioned this in my first post. Maybe a good percentage of our recruits have 1 or 2 other BCS offers but look at the Texas guys. We have 6 recruits from Texas but between them there isn’t a single offer from UT, TA&M, Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma, or Okie State. That’s the type of thing that concerns me a bit. And getting almost completely shut out in Colorado (which as much as I disliked him never happened with Hawkins).

There is no possible way you can call our recruiting “outstanding.” None. Our recruiting this year looks a lot like our recruiting under Hawkins. Whether these recruits perform better remains to be seen for the most part, but that’s talent evaluation and not recruiting. We went from beating low level BCS schools to beating low level BCS schools. Hawk was actually a great recruiter before the wheels fell off. Embree hasn’t shown that yet.