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I have a side job covering NAIA football in the Kansas City area. I write for a publication called NAIA Preview published out of Grand Island. (Insert Laugh here, it's unpaid, but I love it) Last Friday, I was talking to one of the new coaches in the area. He has been the DC at Northern Colorado the last three seasons, but because of his religious beliefs he took a head job at an NAIA Christian Institution in Suburban KC.
We got on the subject of recruiting and how NAIA recruiting differs from D-IAA recruiting. In the NAIA you can sign a kid the day before Fall enrollment ends, even if practice has already started. But he wants to carry his same practices from D-I and start recruiting kids early at his new NAIA program. One kid he has been on big time is a kid named Justin Woods from Mill Valley High School in Shawnee, KS.
Justin's older brother had played at this NAIA program about 4 years ago, so he thought he could get on this kid, make him a nice offer and keep him from the JUCO route. Unfortunately, he won't have a chance since Justin Woods has committed to K-State.
Woods has excellent speed. He's very fast, and this NAIA school believed he had NAIA All-AMerican Track ability and could be a two or three year starter for their football team. They really believed between the track and football programs, they could make him a great scholarship offer.
I called this coach this morning and told him Woods had just committed to K-State. He was shocked. He couldn't believe it. He said he would not have recruited Woods to play defense at Northern Colorado, let alone K-State.
Then again, this NAIA Coach has actually Coordinated a defense before, unlike K-State's D-coordinator.
Justin Woods is very fast. He ran a 10.6 hundred weekly during the track season, but his football skills are not conducive for the Big 12. He played in a below average 4A conference in Kansas. He never faced a D-I receiver or QB all season, and his real value is on offense. He's the kind of kid who becomes a big time small college running back. ku did not offer him either, and he plays football 18 minutes from Lawrence.
I hope Justin Woods develops into a great football for K-State because if he's as nice as his brother, then he's a great kid. Secondly, I can't blame him for taking the offer. He was looking at the JUCO route, or paying money out of pocket at the NAIA/D-II level. Who wouldn't accept a full scholarship offer from a D-I program? Unfortunately for Woods though, I'm afraid he's going to be sorely overmatched in the Big 12.
What the Heck is going on at K-State?
NAIA Defensive Coordinator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Tampa Bay Assistant Coach.
it came from "predictionking"
http://nebraska.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=181&mid=74108201&sid=&tid=74108201&style=1
dude tried to make the argument that the 2005 ksu nu game wasn't close.
err..27-25 isn't close?
I cannot belive this recruiting class.
14 commits....10 of them are totally questionable.
If Everidge could've hit a bull in the ass passing, KSU would've won that game.
Speaking of Miami ... last year half of their recruiting class was 3 stars or less in the vaunted, highly scientific "star system". In fact, I see where two of their signees had no offers from other schools and they beat out Akron, Rutgers and Tennessee State for another. Man ... Miami is going to suck. And that's going by the offer list in freaking Feb. Not May.