Commitment
By Jonathan Okanes
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 9:49 pm in off-season stuff.
Both scout.com and rivals.com are reporting that Sacred Heart Cathedral running back Dasarte Yarnway has orally committed to Cal. Yarnway, 6-0, 210 pounds with reportedly 4.5 speed, is ranked as the 21st-best running back in the country by rivals. com and No. 23 by scout.com.
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October 7th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Yup, Dasarte has been a Cal football fan for a loooong time, and his decision is now final!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
yea baby! hopefully Dasarte will end being as good as Marshawn. same inner city toughness and physique will help him adapt in Berkeley like Lynch.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:35 am
this is great news, but is there any reason why we can’t snag the #1 tailback every year? we always have the best one by the time he graduates. must be the lack of co-ed hotness and the horrible training facilities. go bears!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
well! the good news is that all the new recruits will see the new AHPC before they leave CAL.
Go Bear!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:54 am
why are ESPN’s rankings so different? They have him at #92.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Holy Crap… has anyone seen Stanford’s incoming recruiting class!? They are stacked… how has such a sorry program absolutely demolished us on the recruiting trail??
October 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Still doesn’t hold a candle to our ‘05 class, even though some of our 5 stars didn’t pan out…
October 8th, 2008 at 10:12 am
RAF, take a depth breath and look at the number of TEs in that class. There are 5! What is Harbaugh going to do with 5 TEs? Then, there’s the reality that Stanfraud already has 3 losses, and they’re playing Arizona this weekend. Then, they play us after $C. They’ll be lucky if they’re above .500 at the end of the season. This is one bear who isn’t crappin, yet.
I predict Yarnway’s decision will bring in other recruits. Cal is on the short list to a lot of great prospects, so watch the list lengthen as the wins increase. Plus, who wouldn’t want to be using new facilities in 2 years, in addition to being a part of a winning program and great academics?
Go Bears!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hey, J.O. is there a possibility of any movement of players on the offensive line? Is anyone pushing a starter, if so who?
October 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Yarnway has already stated he wants to help Cal in any way to field together a solid recruiting class this year.
Love this kid already.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:54 am
RAF, If there is a blame, blame the tree hugger, and the city of Berkeley. They are the one that slowdown the construction AHPC. It should have been completed, or near completed by now. And, believe me, when it is up, many top recruits will line up years after years.
And, if Cal continue to win, especially if they win the Pac10, Many highly recruits will join.
Go Bears!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Seems to me the schools in the warmer climates seem to attract the top recurits - SC/UCLA, Arizona, and the entire SEC. Notre Dame has similar issures, along with cold weather - apparently ND head coach Weiss found this to be a common enough complaint he invented a response for it. I think the fact that UCB is the #1 ranked public school actually frightens a lot of recruits - they’re probably told by oher recruiters that you’ll be on your own here, there’s higher standards with a S&#$load of reading, a bunch of hippie liberal profs who don’t care about football (only half true) and no one will help you out. I think it’s harder for some recrutis to fit in here, and yeah, the co-ed hotness is probably a factor as well…
LA seems to have a lot more to offer the typical football player - beach, babes, easier academics, parties with Hollywood stars - along with a long-standing successful tradition of both schools, so USC and UCLA will win most of the recruiting battles. AS for Stanford…Harbaugh can certainly recruit!
October 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Teff,
UCLA has been out-recruiting Cal? Puh-lease. And the ‘typical football player’ that LA is supposed to be more favorable to is still a broke college student…unless he’s at ’sc. come on….you went to ucla. admit it. and stay off the blogs until march.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
lack of hotness? Cal has plenty of eye candy on campus. When was the last time, you went to a frat party at Cal or a bar scene in Berkeley, Teff? You must be from the 60s generation, when all of the girls burned their bras and had hairy armpits. Things have changed for the better in feminity on campus. Thank goodness!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Teff,
Yeah! only Sh*(^ head will go to $C. And, how many of them will make to the NFL. The rest will have to……
On the other hand, CAL will attrach the serious and the talent not just in football. They will attract the 4 stars and with 4.0 GPA kids. And, at the end of their College years they will be fine, even if they don’t make it to the next level.
GO Bears!
October 12th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Robert, the only position where I think there could be movement is at left guard, if Mark Boskovich were to falter. But by all accounts, he’s played well in his two games since Chris Guarnero was injured.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Uh, yeah, UCLA’s last class was ranked higher than us -they’ll turn that progaram around quickly. According to the crap I read, it looked like Arizona, Ucla, Oregon, and USC had more notable athletes, so f-off!
Tedford said so himself in an interivew a ways back, stating that USC wins most of the recruiting battles…our recruiting has become much better, and we can still win with what we’ve got (barring big injuries) but it’s still mostly California based recruiting. As for the current ESPN 150 list - no one on there committing to Cal, least not yet. According to ESPN, all but 2 of the top 10 recruting classes of 2007 were in the southern half of the country; only seven teams weren’t situated in a warmer climate. According to Rivals, both UCLA and Oregon are ranked above us for 2007, 08, and 09, along with SC, so yeah, I think the climate/facilites/plastic surgery flux matters. The football atmosphere is pretty weak for us, compared to the SEC and LA, prolly due to the Raiders and 49′ers…
October 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
The guys who run ESPN 150 don’t know crap. All of their recruits come from Georgia,Florida,Alabama,Louisiana,Texas and So. California. They are so biased to SEC schools. All they care about is your 40yd time. They have very few players outside this area. Very few from No. Calif. SoCAL has about twice the amount of high schools that No. Cal has but 10 times as many top rated players, go figure! Their California sources are from So.Calif.I don’t pay much attention to ESPN high school recruits.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Recruiting is so much of a crapshoot. Do you think Jahvid Best was seriously only the 19th or 20th best back in his class? The point is that just because a class is rated higher than another by a media outlet (usually scouts not affiliated with a certain program because they were never hired to do actual recruiting) doesn’t mean they’ll be a better team for that upcoming year. Cal has had strong classes since Tedford’s arrival, and you can see some of the fruits of the staff’s labors with all the depth we have on the defensive side of the ball.
Teams get a more solid advantage by finding diamonds in the rough (e.g. Aaron Rodgers, Alex Mack). It seems that Cal has done a fantastic job at that.
Please don’t read into ESPN150, Rivals, Scout.com so much. Just look at the product that’s put on the field at game time. There are so many busts when it comes to recruiting… just look at the recruit rankings Miami has had for years now, yet they haven’t been able to put it together for quite some time. It just ticks me off when people blindly follow what ESPN says, like it’s the all-guiding knowledge on all sports and the opinions of its ‘analysts’ are factual certainties
October 14th, 2008 at 9:11 am
East Sports Program Network. It’s all in the name, but Ted Miller does have the best PAC-10 blog that I have come across. He is the one source where you can find all of the information about the other teams in a short and concise manner.
“UCLA’s last class was ranked higher than us…” And, look at those immediate results! I was always suspicious of someone who choses to mock our Coach by altering his name. Now, we all know teff’s true color, baby blue. Can’t blame him for following our Bears, though. The bruins continue to stink.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Saying another school has a good program and good coach doesn’t mean you went to that school, S#&*ball.
I have respect for all of the other PAc-10 schools except USC and ASU - and I really despise their fans, which have been complete a-holes when I went there for games…how many away games have any of you f#$@% traveled to? Are some of you the spinless asswipes who boo the QB, or are never satisfied with the play calling…
The ESPN top 150 list may not be all-encompassing as far as the talent that’s out there, but it’s not like ALL, or even most, of those players are busts; in fact, most of them are pretty good, and I think it does serve as an indicator of a school’s national popularity with recurits. Out of the top 300, Cal came up as choice - a 4th or 5th choice - on only a handful of players, and we only have one commit right now. I have no idea how Stanford has more than we do…hopefully that will change, and that list doesn’t matter, and those professional analysts have no idea what they’re talking about, and all the info I need can be found by asking some arrogant engineering student at Cal who thinks they know everything (not me, I transferred there from a JC) but I doubt that’s the case. So far, USC is always picked as having the best recruiting class, and so far, they haven’t been very beatable, so that data must mean something. If we want to see those bastards get beat year in and year out, we’ll need mo’ better recruits, better facilities (working on that one)and hopefyully Tedford will stick around.