Recruiting Class of 2023

When critics claim that CU’s highly-rated Recruiting Class is all about the volume of recruits, don’t buy in … CU’s Class is more about quality than quantity, with more blue-chip recruits, more Top 500 players, and more diversity than almost all of the best of CU’s Recruiting Classes in the Pac-12 era (combined!) …

CU signed 42 scholarship players – almost half a team – in the past two months … A look at the record-setting numbers set by the Class of 2023, along with an in-depth discussion of Coach Prime’s press conference … Can CU compete for recruits without NIL “bags”? … Can Coach Prime turn “hope in the house” into victories on the field? … Let’s find out …

**It’s official** … CU picks up its first five-star high school prospect in 15 years, as cornerback Cormani McClain, one of the top 15 prospects in the nation (consensus Top ten before committing to CU) has sent in his Letter of Intent …

Georgia has 68 blue-chip players on its roster; TCU only 17 … Colorado played to a 1-11 record last season with a grand total of three four-star players on the team … How many blue-chip players have Coach Prime & Co. brought in to date? … How many will it take to make CU relevant again? … Let’s find out …

A four-star QB, a four-star RB, a four-star WR, and – literally – almost a ton of offensive linemen … Is the CU Recruiting Class of 2023 good enough to appease the Buff Nation and the national media? … Or will it take a couple of late splash commitments to convince the college football world that Coach Prime is for real? …

Merry Christmas x4!! … Four new Buffs added to the fold over Christmas weekend … Bios up for two four-star wide receivers, Omarion Miller and Jimmy Horn, Jr., along with quarterback Kasen Weisman (a former Kansas commit) and All Sun Belt tight end Seydou Traore (who chose CU over Utah) …

12:00 noon, MT … Shutting down The Ticker (but the “Signed LOI” banner will continue to be updated) … 11:45 a.m. MT … Lost one – Jordan Shaw, a three-star DB from Downey, California, flips from CU to Indiana … 11:30 a.m., MT … Another one!! Three-star defensive back Jaden Milliner-Jones flips his commitment from SMU to CU on Signing Day! … 11:10 a.m., MT … BOOM! Four-star wide receiver Adam Hopkins, an Auburn commit since August, commits to Colorado! …

Three-star 2023 linebacker Kofi Taylor-Barrocks commits to CU. The 6-foot-3 recruit is from the NFL Academy in London, England … First commitment of the day, West Virginia defensive lineman Taijh Alston joins the Herd …

The important numbers for CU roster math: 25, the most recruits who can be a part of the “CU Recruiting Class of 2023”; and 85, the maximum number of scholarship players CU can have on the roster on August 1, 2023 … How many new players can Coach Prime bring in? How many WILL he bring in? … Let’s find out …