re: 2014 South Carolina Recruiting Thread

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Now Barrios is coming this weekend for an official? Weird. Thought we would be done at WR when Googer committed. Still think he goes Miami in the end, but makes you wonder.

With Sawyer, Stanley and Scott still out there, do we take four more to get to 17 or are one of them left out in the cold if we do land Barrios?

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Yes I saw that too and it is intriguing for sure. Perhaps this may be a case where the staff needs a portion of the season to progress - where they gave some players on roster opportunities to prove they deserve keeping their scholarships - and could be already making some hard decisions on what the class size will be for 2014.

Perhaps it's still in the process, and we're simply continuing our recruitment of Berrios until the situation becomes more clear. But it's kind of telling to me that we're focusing more on newcomers at WR such as Whitehurst and Cooper factoring into plays during games, while other more experienced players like Brent and Jeffery are struggling to get on the field.

Those two were already being looked at as possible "now or never" players, although Shamiere is still pretty young (RS Fr.). Also RB Kendrick Salley seems to be having attitude/focus issues that may evolve around issues with playing time or depth chart: with Williams now being red-shirted, and Scott still on the radar and both Davis and Wilds doing so well and are both young, Salley may be allowing himself to be squeezed out of the equation...

Also reading that both Stanley and Sawyer will be visiting this weekend and some reports are that both could be on commitment watch....

Well, there was a number of prospects that attended the Vanderbilt game, but of the 2014 prospects that I mentioned above, only Berrios seems to be confirmed as actually coming. No Stanley, no Sawyer, no Scott....

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Jeffrey and Brent are both RS Sophs. So this might be the time for them to either grasp the system and find a spot or realize that isn't going to happen and move on.

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Well put and, IMHO, likely to happen.

The coaches like both of them, but their window of opportunity is closing fast. Jefferies' may have already closed. The jury is still out on Brent.

Still yet, there is time for the light to come on for both of them ... just not much time.

Maybe more twitter drama-queen nonsense:

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Bryson Allen-Wms ?@B_Quatro4 11m

So I just talked to Wesley and he said it was a misunderstanding between him and his coach H

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I think I'll just start ignoring recruiting until NSDs.....

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I think I'll just start ignoring recruiting until NSDs.....

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Smart move.

I learned to do that long ago ... we have no control over any of it.

I used to stress over it myself, but its a rollercoaster that can break your heart sometimes. No need to lose sleep over it.

It really only matters to us when we're good and when we are getting commits from the really good prospects.

I remember the first time I ever let a decommit really bother me, and it was the last time too. It was right after the steroid scandal in the late 80s and when the SI story broke, Stanley Morgan decommitted.

I learned right then to not care about decommits because there is zero control over those that commit for the wrong reasons. They usually, not always but usually they, are difficult to contain through-out their careers.

We'll sign others that want to be here and will not decommit in the process.

I never hold it against them, not unless they go out of their way to try to add drama to the situation by making claims of some perceived malfescence on the part of the coaches. Hopefully neither of these two will and instead they will go on their merry way and have happy, productive, lives.

One thing I know about our coaches, and this applies especially to our current staff because I cannot say it has always been this way ... but this staff is so above board, so ethically and morally driven and directed, that this staff I am not worried about, in the least, having done anything even remotely improper.

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Wesley Green **** CB, Still has us in lead group

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OP in the Phil Steele thread on tRant has Wesley Green visiting them tomorrow for the UGA game LINK

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Will Ward N/R OLB 2016, hasn't been offered yet.

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Assuming this is Whammy's kid

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Dexter Wideman **** DT/SDE, still committed to FSU, but this is his second visit in a month.

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I like the sound of this. Read somewhere that Wideman's commitment to FSU was a weak as it gets.

-- Class of 2014 South Carolina four-star wide receiver commitment Terry Googer had 347 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns in Woodward Academy's 37-7 victory over Decatur.

-- Class of 2014 three-star defensive end commitment Jhaustin Thomas (Athens, Texas/Trinity Valley) had nine tackles, three sacks and another TFL in a 35-7 win over then No. 1 Navarro College last Saturday.

-- Class of 2014 two-star offensive line commitment Malik Young (Piedmont/Woodmont) returned to action Friday after missing four weeks with a jaw injury he suffered in a car accident.

-- Class of 2014 four-star running back target Derrell Scott (Havelock, N.C./Havelock) rushed 21 times for 174 yards and four touchdowns to lead Havelock to a 42-0 victory over Jacksonville.

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OL top target Donnell Stanley is expected to make his announcement later today (Friday) at 1 pm. He is reportedly down to USC and Clemson...