Catching Up With Recruitin' II: Football '08

On March 30th, middle linebacker Bo Walters became the second member of the '08 class to commit to MSU. He's a two star according to Scout and the #34 player in Alabama. Rivals is slightly higher on him, putting him at a 3 star. ESPN gives him a 78 rating (equivalent to a high 3 star) and rates him as the #33 OLB. Just like Patterson, State was the first to offer and Walters committed soon after. Since committing he has picked up 4 more offers: Louisiana Tech, Tulane, UAB, and Southern Miss, all of which are pretty meh.

So, going by the offers its looking like a CUSA level recruit, which doesn't really jive with the ESPN150 watchlist. Thats not necessarily bad at this point in time though as just a couple of years ago it wasn't uncommon to see us battling Div 1AA teams for recruits. Considering that, I'll take the UABs of the world instead. He did wrack up 97 tackles playing for a pretty good 5A team and he actually looks pretty good on film. Has good size and speed; 6-2, 225, 4.46-4.6 40. Actually, he probably would need to add about 10-15 pounds, but that should be easy enough to do. For some reason I like this commit. Maybe the glitter of the ESPN150 watchlist has blinded me, or maybe I desperately want some hope for the future...or maybe both.

Like at RB, this might be all MSU takes as far as linebacker considering they picked up 5 last year (7 actually, but only 5 qualified). Maybe one more at the most.