Love Fest at UCLA

by charnaw on Jan 19, 2007 5:40 PM PST

We in Bruin Nation cannot get jacked up enough to welcome Kevin Love to campus this Fall. However, according to reports on all the wires, Karl Dorrel is going to give us more to love than Kevin Love, as he has just received a verbal commitment from Glenn Love, a 6'4" 205# safety from Chandler, Arizona. Accordaing to various reports, Glenn Love was offered at most of the Pac-10 schools (excluding SUC), but chose UCLA over ASU, Zona and Michigan. He was apparantly injured in his junior season and was flying under the radar of some of the upper echelon programs in the country. As for his senior season, Glenn Love made over 100 tackles, had 10 picks, 3 fumble recoveries, and even blocked 2 field goals, leading Chandler to the Arizona State Championship. But that isn't all! In the championship game he had 10 tackles, 2 picks, blocked a field goal and recoverd a fumble. He may be the next in a long line of awesome UCLA safeties from the days of Easley and Turner through Matt Darby and Matt Ware and will potentially shore up an already great UCLA defense. Im no fan of Karl's, but he has recruited some pretty decent skill players this year, and there will be two Loves to love at UCLA for hopefully the next four years to come! GO BRUINS!!!!!!

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Why is he just a three star?

I know stars aren't everything, but I'm curious as to why a recruit getting this much hype is only rated three stars. Was his junior season the problem?

by Bruin Roar on Jan 19, 2007 6:04 PM PST reply actions

Exactly

Remember that LRMAM was also a 3-star . . . its clearly not an exact science, and is also the reason SUC overlooked him (and the fact that they are already loaded at Safety).

by charnaw on Jan 19, 2007 6:37 PM PST up reply actions

Good get

He is a playmaker. I like his size at Safety. We need some DB's badly so he was an important recruit. Now we can move A. Ware back to Corner and have a potential 08 defensive backfield of Ware, Verner, Love and Lockett.

by ucla21 on Jan 19, 2007 6:08 PM PST reply actions

Nice get but we need some more dudes!!

The Clear brothers would be a good get, D. Warren too. R. Mason just nixed us, deciding not to visit.

by TheStick on Jan 19, 2007 7:01 PM PST reply actions

Warren...

... I'd love if we could get him after missing out on Bradford last year. Let's hope KD can do some good in-home recruiting to get this guy out of those SUC colors!

by uclaike on Jan 19, 2007 7:40 PM PST reply actions

Nice get

Hopefully he will contribute to next head coach's program.

by Nestor on Jan 20, 2007 6:37 AM PST reply actions

LOL

Well said.

by Fox 71 on Jan 20, 2007 6:44 AM PST up reply actions

This guy may be good but....

he is (yet another) one of KDs "sleeper", "diamond in the rough" type recruits. Are these the type of recruits that UCLA can only expect to get? Those that "fly under the radar" (translation: aren't getting recruited heavily from the likes of USC, Texas, Florida, etc..). Again, not to pick on this guy because he may very well end up being solid, but for every offseason for the last 4 or 5 years Bruin fans like myself who track recruiting have been watching the same old story play out: championships are being won in recruiting season, and KD hasn't been able to compete. KDs recruiting overall has been dismal, and his coaching ability isn't strong enough to make up the difference in talents; hence we are mired in mediocrity.

by godblesstyus95 on Jan 20, 2007 9:39 AM PST reply actions

and once again ..

after being a "WR coach" in the NFL the guy still can't land elite receivers.

It will be interesting if he can snag Conte away from Cal. We need depth in our defensive secondary. Conte could be a good addition.

Also Raymond Carter may turn out to be a good RB. But we need some game breakers at that position. We don't have one on our roster, and I am not sure if Carter is the answer.

KD has gotten decent talent to date. Good enough to win the PAC (even though he probaly will come short) but he is not recruiting or bringing talent who will make us perennial top-10 program.

by Nestor on Jan 20, 2007 11:47 AM PST up reply actions

We Got Conte...

... I also think that Raymond Carter is one of the fast gamebreaker types that could really help us out. I'm tired of watching Markey get dragged down from behind.

by uclaike on Jan 20, 2007 9:08 PM PST up reply actions

Conte

that is good news.

I sure hope you are right about Raymond. That would be huge.

by Nestor on Jan 21, 2007 8:15 AM PST up reply actions

And has been said before --

I hope he contributes to the next head coach's program.

by Fox 71 on Jan 21, 2007 9:45 AM PST up reply actions

What makes next year even more important...

... is that we are going to have 20 something scholarships to give out next year. If KD can meet expectations then those 20 scholarships are going to be for five and four star recruits, not the three stars we have been getting the past several years.

As for those three stars, many of them, like Verner, Davis, and Hickman have turned out to be studs. But let's face it, we got really lucky this year to not have any major injuries. KD's weak recruiting classes have created a lack of depth.

by uclaike on Jan 20, 2007 11:10 AM PST reply actions