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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:25 PM
2006 recruiting class
What was it about this class that produced so much positive for the program? Four of those players (Sam Bradford, Gerald McCoy, Trent Williams, Jermaine Gresham) were responsible for Oklahoma having four 1st round NFL Draft picks (3 of the first 4 overall selections) in the 2010 draft and also produced draft picks in DeMarco Murray (3rd round), Quinton Carter (4th round), Dominique Franks (5th round), Jeremy Beal (7th round), and Jonathan Nelson (7th round), while also producing some other players who contributed like Mossis Madu, Chris Brown, Brandon Walker, Pryce Macon, Adrian Taylor, and Erik Mensik. A lot of these guys were responsible for helping the program accumulate three Big 12 Championships and a national championship appearance. There are multiple All-Americans and a Heisman Trophy winner from this class. Was the coaching staff just on top of things with their evaluations? The talent in-state just that strong that year?
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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:31 PM
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Whatever it was we don’t have nearly enough of it now At OU all it takes is the right leadership to put the championship recipe together. |
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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:33 PM
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We normally get 1 or 2 really strong players each year out of the in state kids. 2006 was special and not the norm. Those players turned out to be "elite". McCoy was the top rated DT and went on to prove why. Gresh was a top rated TE and again went on to prove why. Bradford was recruited as a back up for Bomar. No one really expected him to be as good as he was. Madu was pretty good on SPs and limited action as a RB.
Overall that was a good class with many players that panned out.
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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:36 PM
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Can only imagine if the in-state talent was stronger on an annual basis. Something that rivaled Alabama and Louisiana.
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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:45 PM
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ZachGivens wrote: Can only imagine if the in-state talent was stronger on an annual basis. Something that rivaled Alabama and Louisiana. Yeah. Considering our overall lack of numbers and how sucessful OU has been for as long as it has been, it really is amazing. We should not be as good as we are, year in and year out. For those that say the staff cannot evaluate players, etc, that is silly. Has it dropped some, for whatever reason? Appears that way. Still winning 10 per season against great odds. A slight bump/change should get us headed back in the right direction. Winning 10 games on avg is not an easy task. I know I know, we are OU and expect NCs. An even tougher task. |
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Posted: 2/8/2013 5:52 PM
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BleedingCrimson4Life wrote:
ZachGivens wrote: Can only imagine if the in-state talent was stronger on an annual basis. Something that rivaled Alabama and Louisiana. Yeah. Considering our overall lack of numbers and how sucessful OU has been for as long as it has been, it really is amazing. We should not be as good as we are, year in and year out.
For those that say the staff cannot evaluate players, etc, that is silly. Has it dropped some, for whatever reason? Appears that way. Still winning 10 per season against great odds. A slight bump/change should get us headed back in the right direction.
Winning 10 games on avg is not an easy task. I know I know, we are OU and expect NCs. An even tougher task. Adding to it, winning a conference championship every other season. Stoops has never gone more than two season without winning the conference. I don't care what level of play or what conference a team plays in, that's impressive. 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012. Could be stronger, sure. Played for the national title three times from 2000 to 2004, but just once since (2008). Difficult to do. Only times we weren't in the thick of winning the conference was Stoops' first year (1999), 2005 (lost a ton of players from the previous teams that played for the national titles, so we were young), and 2009 (disaster due to injuries and lots of experience lost from the previous season, particularly up front across the OL). Seems the least we could expect is a conference title, but you're correct in that some things need to change in order for us to be a true national title contender again (and not just get to the game, but win it).
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Posted: 2/8/2013 6:06 PM
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Sometimes things just seem to fall together. Chemistry seems to be there from the beginning and a "family atmosphere" permeates the team.
Other times... well... not so much. But I have to admit, those "other times" rarely happen at OU. We are and have been an elite program for a very long time.
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Posted: 2/8/2013 6:13 PM
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Strong in state that year plus numbers. Signing 28 doesn't hurt. Have only done that once since I believe and that was 2010, which will turn out to be a good class. As much video as there is, evaluating is hard, just playing the numbers game is a huge advantage.
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Posted: 2/8/2013 7:49 PM
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ZachGivens wrote: What was it about this class that produced so much positive for the program? Four of those players (Sam Bradford, Gerald McCoy, Trent Williams, Jermaine Gresham) were responsible for Oklahoma having four 1st round NFL Draft picks (3 of the first 4 overall selections) in the 2010 draft and also produced draft picks in DeMarco Murray (3rd round), Quinton Carter (4th round), Dominique Franks (5th round), Jeremy Beal (7th round), and Jonathan Nelson (7th round), while also producing some other players who contributed like Mossis Madu, Chris Brown, Brandon Walker, Pryce Macon, Adrian Taylor, and Erik Mensik. A lot of these guys were responsible for helping the program accumulate three Big 12 Championships and a national championship appearance. There are multiple All-Americans and a Heisman Trophy winner from this class. Was the coaching staff just on top of things with their evaluations? The talent in-state just that strong that year? OU rarely has top 5 elite DTs from in-state. That helped a lot with that class. Bradford being majorly underrated helped as well. It's amazing looking at Stoops worst class(ranking wise) and seeing it as one of his best(production wise).
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Posted: 2/8/2013 7:56 PM
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From what I gather from a couple players on the team there was some good leadership on that team.
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Posted: 2/8/2013 8:02 PM
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Anytime you have a Bradford, McCoy & Gresham as in state talents, you've got one helluva start.
Think about how giddy everyone would be this off season.
In state talent might not ever have been that good in one year, I mean damn.
We are in-state El Niño years at moment it seems on other hand, but 2014 seems to appear back into more normal weather patterns.
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Posted: 2/9/2013 7:22 PM
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BleedingCrimson4Life wrote: We normally get 1 or 2 really strong players each year out of the in state kids. 2006 was special and not the norm. Those players turned out to be "elite". McCoy was the top rated DT and went on to prove why. Gresh was a top rated TE and again went on to prove why. Bradford was recruited as a back up for Bomar. No one really expected him to be as good as he was. Madu was pretty good on SPs and limited action as a RB.
Overall that was a good class with many players that panned out. I liked Madu. A couple of times when we got thin at RB, he responded so well. The top guys were great of course, Sam was obviously a great surprise, but another couple of guys who were way better than expected, IMO, were Beal (2 star LB on one site), and Mensik. I seem to remember Mensik being a TE who was signed mainly because of his long-snapping experience - but I'm old, and my memory sucks, so I could be wrong about that.
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Posted: 2/9/2013 8:05 PM
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The landscape of the BIG 12 (then it was the OU and Texas show), the condition of the program (2005 was a very young and talented team that was an important foundation for those young guys to start slowly filtering into the depth chart. Talented guys worked hard and played for very good surrounding casts through the years.
Think about it, that offense was tailor-made to shatter records when Sam came in and took over for Thompson in 2007.
Murray and Brown had the luxury of not only playing behind a great OL, but also got to learn from Allen Patrick and Adrian Peterson.
Gerald McCoy was just a special guy who developed into what you'd hope all DTs could become.
Franks, Gresham, Carter, etc. we're all talented guys who put in the work, stuck with it and competed honorably until they got their chance to shine.
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Posted: 5/7/2013 11:42 AM
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Wonder when will we get another class like this?
I thought the 2010 was going to a game changer class...
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Posted: 5/7/2013 11:50 AM
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JuicedPlayer wrote:
Wonder when will we get another class like this?
I thought the 2010 was going to a game changer class... A lot of those guys in that class still have time. 2013 and 2014 are going to define that class, IMO. Seniors: Corey Nelson, Trey Millard, Aaron Colvin, Austin Woods, Roy Finch, Brennan Clay, Bronson Irwin Juniors: Geneo Grissom, Daryl Williams, Rashod Favors, Aaron Franklin, Trey Franks, Julian Wilson, Torrea Peterson, Chuka Ndulue, Adam Shead, Quetin Hayes, Blake Bell, Tyrus Thompson
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Posted: 5/7/2013 12:37 PM
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ZachGivens wrote:
JuicedPlayer wrote:
Wonder when will we get another class like this?
I thought the 2010 was going to a game changer class...
A lot of those guys in that class still have time. 2013 and 2014 are going to define that class, IMO.
Seniors: Corey Nelson, Trey Millard, Aaron Colvin, Austin Woods, Roy Finch, Brennan Clay, Bronson Irwin
Juniors: Geneo Grissom, Daryl Williams, Rashod Favors, Aaron Franklin, Trey Franks, Julian Wilson, Torrea Peterson, Chuka Ndulue, Adam Shead, Quetin Hayes, Blake Bell, Tyrus Thompson Yeah, they still have a good chance to be great on the field and in the draft. Nelson needs a productive year, but will test well. Millard will be drafted. FB so will probably keep him from going high, but he can play some TE, FB, HB and has value on SPs. That will help him and he should test decent for a guy his size. Colvin we know has 1st round ability. Clay and Finch both could end up mid-late round guys. Grissom has high round ability. Williams and Thompson could also sneak into fairly high picks. Shead (if he can stay healthy) should get the nod from someone in the later rounds. Franklin has ability. Favors needs a position. Peterson, it is up to him. Ndulue also needs a position but will probably not test very well regardless. Hayes, nose needs to stay clean before we know much. Bell, we will see. Has that great NFL size and can scramble. Has the things the NFL likes in a 1st round QB. Now he just needs to be productive. Favors and Chuka need a position. 
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:38 PM
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BleedingCrimson4Life wrote:
ZachGivens wrote:
JuicedPlayer wrote:
Wonder when will we get another class like this?
I thought the 2010 was going to a game changer class...
A lot of those guys in that class still have time. 2013 and 2014 are going to define that class, IMO.
Seniors: Corey Nelson, Trey Millard, Aaron Colvin, Austin Woods, Roy Finch, Brennan Clay, Bronson Irwin
Juniors: Geneo Grissom, Daryl Williams, Rashod Favors, Aaron Franklin, Trey Franks, Julian Wilson, Torrea Peterson, Chuka Ndulue, Adam Shead, Quetin Hayes, Blake Bell, Tyrus Thompson Yeah, they still have a good chance to be great on the field and in the draft.
Nelson needs a productive year, but will test well. Millard will be drafted. FB so will probably keep him from going high, but he can play some TE, FB, HB and has value on SPs. That will help him and he should test decent for a guy his size. Colvin we know has 1st round ability. Clay and Finch both could end up mid-late round guys.
Grissom has high round ability. Williams and Thompson could also sneak into fairly high picks. Shead (if he can stay healthy) should get the nod from someone in the later rounds. Franklin has ability. Favors needs a position. Peterson, it is up to him. Ndulue also needs a position but will probably not test very well regardless. Hayes, nose needs to stay clean before we know much. Bell, we will see. Has that great NFL size and can scramble. Has the things the NFL likes in a 1st round QB. Now he just needs to be productive.
Favors and Chuka need a position. There's some good talent here to work with, for sure. These guys just need to believe and turn their game up a couple notches.
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