From: yvonne@well.sf.ca.us (Yvonne Lee)
Subject: Pac-10 recruiting WAS Re: Recruiting -- How are the Trojans doing?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:47:12 GMT

In <76Cu03elc9du00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro) writes:

>In article <yvonne.727667513@well.sf.ca.us> yvonne@well.sf.ca.us (Yvonne Lee) writes:
>>said USC's class was not in the top half of the Pac-10.
>>
>>One article quotes Bruce Kimbrell of Blue Chip Illustrated as saying Stanford 
>>and Cal are "Kicking the crap out of" USC and UCLA;  The nation's top running
>>back isn't going to Tailback U, but to Stanford, another article said. Pat Barnes,

>  Of course having Walsh at Stanford doesn't hurt any :-)  But that team
>is essentially Green's team, so they should still recruit well as long
>as they are a top-20 team.  Even if they weren't, Walsh would still pull
>the recruiting class up.

I was referring to Mike Mitchell, and incoming running back, not any current
running backs that Green may have recruited.

Whatever.

>>
>>Washington has been hurt a little by recent allegations of impropriety that
>>suggest the team may be placed on probation.  It didn't stop them from getting
>>Parade All-America defensive end Regan Upshaw, however.  Upshaw said he'd
>>probably redshirt the year Washington went on probation, anyhow.

>  This could be the first time in a while for the southern California
>PAC-10 teams to take the California recruits away from Washington, being 
>that they are not in the top-5/10 anymore and the recruiting violations.

>  Of course, now these schools will have to compete with Stanford and
>Cal (I can't believe Cal is recruiting that well- what is Gilbertson
>using to entice High School graduates that Stanford doesn't have?).
>At least the California talent will be staying in-state :-)

I didn't mean to imply that Cal is out-recruiting Stanford.  Nothing I've read
in any paper, on any net or heard from anyone remotely associated with recruiting
or the Stanford program suggests that.

I don't know that Cal and Stanford have gone head-to-head on any recruites,
since Stanford has been recruiting nationwide, and Cal has stuck mostly to 
the West Coast, particularly Southern California.

Cal got QB Barnes, (who was looking at Cal, ND and Colorado).  Stanford got a
verbal from Tim Carey, a Soutern Calif. QB a long time ago.  Carey and Barnes
are listed as about the same, but Stanford is also getting Scott Frost, a
Parade All-America QB who is supposed to be one of the top 3 in the country.

The article I read said Stanford's class is in the top 5, and that Cal's is
in the top 20.  Still, with two weeks left, and everything so far just verbal
commitments, all of that could change.

If Cal has beaten Stanford on any head-to-head recruits, it's probably because
the coaches can come in and tell a kid he'll play right away, since Cal's
building an entierely new program, and Stanford is building upon an existing
(very similar) one.

>  Doug






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