RB Josh Huff, and current Gophs Recruiting

by CJ7319 on Nov 1, 2009 8:46 AM CST

The Gophers 2010 Recruiting Class is looking good on paper (#27, Rivals, 10/31/09).

The most recent commit, Josh Huff from Aldine TX is a (4* Rivals) game changer type of RB.

Take a look at his video:

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=98599&season=2010&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncf%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fplayer%3frecruitId%3d98599%26season%3d2010

This kid has 4.4 speed, runs well on sweeps and pitches, as is deadly after the catch as a receiver. It appears like he has good running instincts.

Hope to goodness that he'll not be academically ineligible like Hasan Lipscomb. IMO, Brewster is rolling the dice on fringe players that may be overlooked by major FB powerhouses with a potential for a big payback.

In addition to speedy backs, I'd like to see the Gophers go after a bruising back - someone like current Badger John Clay (6'1, 245 lbs) or the great Badger running back Ron Dayne (5'10", 250 lbs). Now, we are talking about real smash mouth mano-a-mano Big Ten Football.

It appears that the Gophs are recruiting pretty decent, big beefy OLs. I am not holding my breath on this one.If Campion and Searcy rejoin the team, that will be a loaded frontline.

Imagine how big the OL will be if Seantrel decides to commit to the Gophs. About the only chance they've got is if the Gophs win their remaining games. Yes - beat Iowa.

Can't stand seeing current OL getting beaten on the outside rushes.

Hopes springs eternal. One thing you have to credit the Brewmeister - he is trying. Oh well. That is my penney's worth of thought.

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Huff

Someone posted somewhere that he has a 2.7 gpa so grades shouldn’t be a problem with Huff. That seems pretty borderline to me, but I don’t really know. There is bound to be some fallout, so it will be very interesting to see who we pick up with the next -9 recruits. It is shaping up to be the 3rd straight solid recruiting class and things are definitely looking good on the recruiting front. Hopefully a bunch of visitor’s were at the MSU game and we will land a few more recruits this week. Ski-U-Mah!!!!!!

by Narby on Nov 1, 2009 11:33 AM CST reply actions

His GPA

is fine for an athlete. Athletes are held to lower academic standards than regular students. If we con get Seantrel we have a top 20 recruiting class.

by BigLui12 on Nov 1, 2009 2:14 PM CST reply actions

Recruitment ranking disparity

Someone (i believe it was GopherNation) just posted an article claiming some other service was ranking the gophers class as 8th in the Big Ten. Yet, Rivals (my choice, if you ask for one) claims the Gophers are 27th in the nation. How can these two services be so far off? And who are we to believe with such incredible variance?

by Jayrome007 on Nov 2, 2009 10:21 AM CST reply actions

Yeah not sure

Rivals has us 5th in the big 10 and its hard to see who behind us in their rankings would be ahead of us in another. We have a fairly big class allready with 22 and some very good prospects. If we can get Okuyumi, Allen and Henderson this class is easy a top 20. Would be nice to get another 4 star defensive back though.

by Jeffdu on Nov 2, 2009 8:00 PM CST up reply actions