Hawai'i has a big advantage in recruiting when you can tell an athlete to come and play ball with us in paradise. Hard to compete with that!

"Here's the stadium. Here's Waikiki Beach. Oh look, palm trees. Did I mention Waikiki Beach? Do you like 80 degrees and sun? There's Waikiki Beach."

It's nice until the island fever kicks in! You are right though, their environment is a distinct recruiting advantage for them.

I guess the 6 hour flights back and forth to the Mainland for any road games aren't part of the consideration process.

Or winning?

Or playing? Kevin Davidson, the QB who changed his mind from UCD to Princeton, has hardly played.
Would a player rather sit on the bench for a while or play sooner. Me, I never wanted to ride the pine and watch. I'd rather play, even if you don't have a winning record. After all, if your the national champs and never saw the playing field, would you really as having been a deserving member of a championship team? I would not.

Berzins officially announced his commitment to UCD today! Good call on that info SF!

Sweet! I thought it looked like we could use another DL / DE. We need some more players who can bring some pressure to the QB.

CA Forever, thanks for all of your hard work and diligence with this list!

Thank you, Movie. It's not a lot of work once you know what to look for and I like being able to provide something to the AST community. Plus, it gives me something to do in the off season!

Size-wise this is a massive class (20+) but I think the coaching staff has done a good job at making sure that it is balanced. When you have balanced classes you will less often have to have recruiting classes where it is an emergency to pick up guys in a certain position. Kudos to Coach Creighton who has managed to develop this recruiting class considering the change in staff (although from what we are hearing, Hawk is making a buzz here).

Nate Shepard has also 'liked' several new Aggie tweets.

FWIW, whole defensive staff had a home visit with Can Newton. *locking it in*

Got a commitment from a player I didn't know had an offer from us! DB Jaylin White from Vista Murrieta High School! GO AGS! Had offers from Nevada and Army.

Another 2 star commit. 5'9" or 5'10", also a track participant. Go Ags!

23 commits
2 3-star commits
14 2-star commits
4 Jucos transfers

...and we still seem to be actively recruiting, could have 25 commits? ... Did we lose 1 or 2 to transfer?

He looks a small speed demon. He has a pic on his twitter account showing his rating from the Nike+ football rating day in Los Angeles. His overall score was 91.77. He was in the 98th percentile in the 40 yd dash, vertical leap and agility. They have him listed at 5'9 and 144 lbs so I imagine they'll be looking beefing him up a bit but the athletic ability is certainly there already.

I thought I saw 170#s on another site.

Maybe he grew a bunch since the 2016 Nike+ rating day!

They always take them to "Cream" next to the Hallmark.Those of you who have been there know what I mean.

2 three stars? Have we ever had 2 three stars before? Maybe 1 Denham and he was a total bust; but never 2. Who are these guys?

Gould may have when he pulled a few studs from Arizona.

I don't think we could offer him if he was really only in the 140's. He would get destroyed by Big Sky WR's.

Yes we have... The 2016 recruiting class had at least three (3) - 3 star* recruits: WR Kris Vaughn (Redlands East Valley, CA), DE Brandon Jamison (Chaparral, AZ) and WR Jared Harrell (St. John Bosco, CA).

We also had Trombetta a RB and another 3 star RB. I can't remember his name the same year.

Good to see a couple of our guys up in the top part of that list. I'm also ok with having "chip on their shoulder" guys too. Davis used to thrive on those guys and we can do it again.

According to their list Sac State has landed the top recruit so far LB Tysyn Parker who had a bunch of offers including UCD...(oh well...scratching my head...) but we have 3 guys in their top 17 (#17 DE Luka Nixon, #11 WR Kristian Gilbert and #10 WR Logan Montgomery). Certainly this list is highly subjective and really doesn't mean all that much.

herosports also posted a National Top 25 FCS Recruits list as of January 19th and Eastern Washington has #23 WR Andrew Boston and #18 WR Johnny Edwards IV, North Dakota has #15 DE Ezekiel Ott and Montana State has #14 DB Jalen Cole.

http://herosports.com/news/fcs-recruiting-national-top-25-commitments-fcs-football#1

Now that the majority of recruits have already made their verbal commitments, I was wondering if coaches will still be contacting those recruits and making home visits in an effort to get them to change their minds? I know we have had a few recruits change their minds at the 11th hour in the past.

I really hope that Coach Tucker can keep the JC pipeline open for us in the coming years.

I would assume they are calling and visiting until the very last minute to prevent any defections. Nothing is final until the fax rolls into the football office!

Anthony Quintana has committed to Southeastern University.

The star rating doesn't hold a lot of weight with me. Look at last years super bowl,there was only a hand full of players that were 4,5 stars out of high school.

Welcome to the boards, Central Coast. I agree with you in a sense. Projecting long term, from high school to the NFL, the star system doesn't hold a lot of weight. From high school to college, however, I think there is some validity there.

I mean, for instance, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, ect. are all made up of almost exclusively of 4 and 5 star athletes. Davis gets mostly 2 star and unranked athletes and a couple of 3 stars thrown in. We've never gotten anywhere close to a 4 star athlete.