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A.S.A.P.
If these two lightly recruited transfers,
each of them recruited in a relatively
short period of time, turn out to be miss-
es, look out.
If Purdue can't find some depth and
added physicality on defense, a unit that
has some decent personnel pieces in
place will be hard-pressed to take a step
forward.
Look for newcomers to get opportuni-
ties in the secondary and on the defen-
sive line right away, maybe a linebacker
in reserve.
And the least exciting position on the
field may be one of the most important
in this class, starting immediately.
Ben Makowski has to be able to snap
at a Big Ten level from Day 1. You don't
put snappers on scholarship to be back
-
up snappers.
(This concludes our two sentenc-
es of offseason snapper talk for this
year.)
Make no mistake here: Purdue
landed some potential gems.
Quarterback Elijah Sindelar is
better than anyone knows, or at
least more talented. Once he's right
physically, he'll have a chance to
show it.
Jones has all the tools to be a
rock-solid, salt-of-the-earth Big Ten
running back.
Eddy Wilson is a really nice defen
-
sive line prospect who could have
gone a lot of different places.
Evyn Cooper is a 6-2 corner who
runs a 4.4 and had SEC and ACC
offers.
There are others, but many of
their classmates don't look, on
paper, like obvious gems, but rather
the product of what Purdue hopes
was a successful yearlong mining
mission.
Whether you can get five-star re
-
cruits or have to fight for the best of
the rest, the single most important
part of recruiting is evaluation.
Recruiting rankings are right
more than they're wrong.
With the 2015 class, Purdue needs
to be right far more than it was
wrong.
Someone was wrong.
j
Neubert can be contacted at
BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com
