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January 17, 2012
Well, it had to happen sooner than later. PITT has its first defection of the 2012 recruiting class when Dakota Conwell left the fold yesterday. His 100% commitment to PITT flip-flopped to being 100% committed to Arizona in the course of a two day visit. We lose a four star LB right after we picked up a non-ranked LB.
That sounds a bit bitter and I’m really not. This is how things work in the recruiting game. Conwell has now stated that he was ‘feeling’ Arizona for a couple weeks and I believe that. Graham had recruited him to play either the Spur or the Panther LB position and Chryst will field a traditional 4-3; three LB defense where the LB play is rather confined.
Apparently Conwell wants to freelance a bit more than that entail and RR’s 3-3-5 will fit him better.
Conwell, 6-foot-1, 210 pounds, said the 3-3-5 defense that new Arizona defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel, formerly of West Virginia, is installing for coach Rich Rodriguez, is a better fit for him than Pitt’s 4-3 under its new coordinator Dave Huxtable.
“I’ll get to play in space a little bit more than I would have at Pitt,” he said. “I will have a little more (pass coverage) responsibilities at Arizona.”
Now I’m no Dick Lebeau but I can’t see how having an extra DB is somehow going to translate to Conwell having more pass coverage responsibilities. You’d think having one less DB and an extra body on the DL would make that happen more often.
Anyway, there is no doubt in my mind that Chryst & Co. knew this was probably going to happened and with that they made sure that Caprara was onboard. We’ll see in a couple of years if this was a decent trade off or not.
