Looking at the class of 2010, I am very impressed with the job Danny Hope and company has done.  The class will not be talked about on ESPN or get front page billing on rivals.com tomorrow, but this class is impressive.  If you are a star watcher or a rankings guy you might look at this class and think it is average at best.  However, if you really take the time to look at each guy in this class you can see how scary they can be.   OJ Ross is Purdue’s highest ranked player with a combination of size and speed that is not seen very often at Purdue.   He will give Gary Nord the ability to stretch the field which will open up the rest of the offense.

 
Next is the trio of three stars that I am most excited about. First is 6’3”, 300 pound defensive tackle Bruce Gaston from Chicago.  Gaston might be the most highly recruited three-star player in quite some time.  He was not unleashed onto the competition until late into his junior year and that kept him off the recruiting radar until late in the game.  In his senior year, he more than made up for lost time by racking up 99 tackles; for the sake of comparison, Ndamukong Suh had 85 tackles this year.  The second three-star player on my list is Rashad Frazier, a 6’6” defensive end from Middletown, Ohio. Why I am impressed with this player?   Because he was a three sport stand out in Maine before moving to Ohio right before his senior year in high school.   He didn’t start playing football until his senior year and is a three-star player.   Given time to learn the sport (and with Purdue’s history of producing defensive ends) the sky is the limit for Rashad.  The final three-star player that I am excited about is Sean Robinson, a 6’5”, 205 pound quarterback from Rochester, Illinois, who amassed 14 scholarship offers.  This kid can run.   I have never seen him in person but watching his tape gives me goose bumps.

 
Is this Purdue class going to be ranked in the top 25 in the country?  No, but it still has a chance to be very productive. Let’s not forget the class of Tim Stratton and some guy named Drew was ranked 11th in the big ten by the experts. I will enjoy watching this class develop and rack up wins over the next 4 or 5 years. In the words of Morgan Burke – BOILER UP and HAMMER DOWN!