re: 2015 South Carolina Football Recruiting Thread

https://www.hudl.com/athlete/3158337/highlights/138830394

I'll start by saying I think whoever did his film editing helped him. He had a bunch of really good kicks scattered in the middle and end, I guess they did it chronologically and not with any thought that a prospective coach might look at this and see some early kicks that were meh, and go on to the next recruit.

He is a MUCH better punter than PK. His Punts were almost all over 45 yards for a Jr in HS, and that's awesome b/c our current guy only avg's 37 yards for a 4th year collegiate player....

This guy could punt for us right now. He's got good hangtime on both his KO's and Punts, but he doesn't have much range or consistency on KO's (even though he's kicking form the 40.) He can punt though, he can definitely punt, and that's what we need right now.

He has a big frame, 6'5" we can add muscle to him, I don't think that will be a problem. A couple years with Connelly and we should have this guy up to 210 lbs and booming 50 yard kicks with over 5.5 seconds of hang time.

I see what Kohl said, the upside is there, but he needs coaching and S&C development. Wasn't it Kohl that rated Hull really high too?

We definitely needed a punter in this class.

The kid evidently impressed the coaches at our camp. Was banging 55 yard punts with 5+ secs of hang time like it was easy.

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Sandifer is announcing tomorrow at 7:30 between USC, UF and Bama.

Hope we can pick him up

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247 said he's not a take for us anymore. His shot at our roster was lost when Bailey and Pellage committed. If something very unlikely happened and Ivey or Burrell wanted in, we would take their commitment, but Sandifer isn't a take at this point in time.

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I think we're probably done along the OLine, are we not?

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I guess. I thought we would take both Bailey and Sandifer but apparently I was wrong.

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We're down to the nitty gritty and still in need of DLinemen and another big time RB and QB.

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I don't think we need either RB or QB unless its Frazier. And we don't need any more DEs, just DTs

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Pretty crazy for me because I went to Flora.

What are the chances this kid is really 6'5 180 though? Thats straight gumby status

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He sure looks tall in this pic:



And yes he looks a little gumby-like too, lol. Also props to the sweet Gamecock Girl hostesses!

We are in Jaquan Johnson's Top 3 with Miami and Florida. He's a 4* #9 Safety from Killian HS in FL. US Army All American Selection.

He faux committed to SC last summer, but then recanted it. I think one of his buddies got a hold of his phone/twitter account and was messing around.

Here are his highlights from last season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGUyfnQ4V2w

Tony at 247 said that he is a take for SC.

Joseph Charlton was just listed as the #1 Kicker for the 2015 class by 247.

https://247sports.com/Season/2015-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&Position=K

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Saw this coming when I heard our coaches quit calling him or showing him any love whatsoever.

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From what he has been saying the past couple months, we were still calling him and trying to get him to come visit, but it never happened. I think he would've been a take for us, he's a great player. However, he just made a bad decision. If he goes to clemson, there's not a guarantee that staff will be there next year. If they only win 8 or fewer games, like I think is what they'll do, and they have a 6th straight double digit loss to SC...Danny Ford is going to flip his shite to Radokovich and Dabo is gone. Ford won't let that school lose to SC 7 times in a row. Ford has already been talking trash about Dabo for the past year.

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Albert Huggins officially drops SCAR from his list

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Good. People will finally stop talking about him as if we had a shot

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Is there a kid named DJ Jones or something, that we're back in the hunt for this class?

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DJ Jones is the #1 JUCO DT for the 2015 class....he was once a heavy USC lean that 247sports had 100% coming to USC. It was around that time when we were posting all this stuff about getting 5 of the top 10 rated JUCOs for 2015, per 247sports.

It turned out that Jones ultimately chose FSU over us. We still got 247sport's overall #1 JUCO WDE (Sawyer), #1 JUCO SDE (Lewis), overall #1 JUCO ILB (Durant), and overall #1 JUCO OT (Palmer).

During the first fall camp practice, Jones made a surprise appearance at the Proving Grounds, and spent some time talking to Coach Ward. Rumors are out there that we may have made some ground on Jones, and that he still maintains interest in us.

IMO, I've also heard reports that Jones wants to be a "one and done" JUCO player - he wants to get to the NFL as quickly as possible, and structured his recruiting process for programs that gave the best combination of national exposure and maximum playing time.

I always thought he may feel that with the experienced depth USC has at DT (with a possible 6 returning DTs on the depth chart in 2015 with experience if neither Lamin or Stallworth redshirts this season), he may not get the best opportunity to make a big splash his 1st season. FSU have both their starting DTs this season as Jrs/RS-Jrs, and may opt out for the NFL after this season. They brought in 5 DTs in the 2014 class (we brought in 2), although only 2 of them are highly rated 4*s, and are slated to be red-shirted.

Jones probably feels there's a hole at FSU in between the departing Eddie Goldman & Nile Lawrence-Stample, and the upcoming youngsters at DT that as a JUCO, he'd be expected to contribute his experience. But what's going for USC is that Jones is originally from SC, and it gets him closer to family. We'll see.....