Buffaloes Land Another Defensive End, Pick Up Verbal From Kisima Jagne

This a solid get.

BTW… Our OL averaged 6’5, 292.5 this year.

The two signee’s this year are:
Irwin – 6’5, 289
Kough – 6’5, 270

They’ll add size and I’d expect our OL to average 300+ in the next few years. They may get JUCO G/T Ceachir (6’5, 300)

I don’t see the size difference between the two groups of defensive players. If the Buffs are playing a 3-4 type defense, then an end at 230-240lbs is not going to work. If they are running a 4-3 then that size is fine. I went to a clinic that coach Brown spoke at, and I seem to recall him talking about a running a modified 3-4 (which is more like a 5-2). In that case ends at 235-240 probably works, so long as you have outside backers around that same size.

In my opinion the difference between hawk guys and our current recruits is we are getting more DI ready to play athletes and less hope you can evolve into DI types (which was the hawk diamond in the rough recruiting philosphy).

As a final thought, if I remember correctly Clay Matthews Jr. arrived on campus at USC at 6’1" and about 180 lbs. Of course he had NFL pedigree and ended up being 6’3" 230lbs (he only had one DI offer – Idaho). My point is it is ok to shoot for the moon on one or two guys in a class, but generally teams have success by choosing from the mainstream and hoping that 50-70% of those guys turn out to be players. It looks like this is what we are doing now, as evidenced by the fact that the guys we are getting typically have multiple BCS offers, which should bode well for us in the near future!!

Because i had notice the same thing a couple games befor that and even my Non-football wife said they look small.

Agree, i like the size coming in this year.

Another thing I have noticed is we seem to be honing in on winning high school programs. having guys in the program that have an expectation of winning, and a background of winning, will hopefully help change the losing culture that has overtaken the program over the last 5-8 years.

From the middle of the season when coach Embree was getting upset after losses I suspect that is what he was talking about, losing games, regardless of whether we were good enough to win or not, and after losing just being ok with it . . .

Bottom line, we are already looking at more talent in this class than nearly any of the hawk classes, and I expect that trend to continue upward. Bieniemy said from the get go that Buffs would track down programs directly in front of us, rather than those at the top. So we are going after Arizona, Arizona St., UCLA, Wash St. and I think we are looking good on a recruiting front against those schools right now.