re: State of Gamecock Recruiting for 2018

You are not kidding ... that kid is interesting.

I mean, the kind of kid not getting a whole lot of attention that makes you go hmmmmmmmm.

I wonder if we'll get involved - he sure looks like the kind of blue collar kid we could use.

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Reminds me a bit of McEvoy (who somehow is inexplicably in the NFL...)

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As a wide receiver right?

Which is what Spurrier wanted to do with him ... but he wanted to be a QB or a Safety.

Go figure.

The other thing - the one thing you could not do to Spurrier was look him in his eyes and lie to his face. And Tanner did that when he got back from break ... the underage drinking was no biggie. But failing the piss test was.

QB Joyner won SC Gatorade Player of the Year as a Junior.

SC Leads the CB Projections
https://247sports.com/Player/Dakereon-Joyner-77309

https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-recruiting/article120488283.html

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Fort Dorchester quarterback Dakereon Joyner was named the South Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year on Monday. Joyner is the first player from Fort Dorchester to win the award. The junior threw for 3,642 yards and 44 touchdowns and also rushed for 1,089 yards and 12 scores this season. y

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Xavier Thomas is making some announcement tonight at 7 p.m. He said it will be his last announcement until he announces what college he's going to.

I don't know what that means for sure, but it's interesting to put that limitation on his announcements. Most thought he would not announce for a year, and that seems like a long time to not announce anything.

...is he going to commit to SC tonight?

So he has committed to playing college ball in SC... Either us or Clemson

Going to be a battle.

If we can get most of the guys trending SC and a few of the 50/50 guys in just NC and SC, we'll have an amazing Recruiting class in 2018. NC and SC are much more loaded with high level talent in 2018.

For SC
5* DE Xavier Thomas
4* DT Josh Belk
4* ATH Jordyn Adams (this is a weird situation b/c of his Dad, but he seems to really like SC, he's moving to Gville, NC though. He can play baseball too at a high level.)
4* QB Dak Joyner
4* ILB Khalid Jones
4* OT Kavesz Sherard (Wynn will try to pull him with him to clemson, although Wynn says he's on the fence too, but he's a clemson legacy. Sherard is one of the 50/50 guys.)
3* S Israel Mukumara (moving to LA, but I like our chances.)
3* WR Demarcus Gregory (Byrnes guy, Bentley will have this on lock.)
3* DT Kelijiha Brown (this is one guy we need to stay under the radar, he's a stud.)

I don't feel good about our chances with SC's
4* WR Darion Kendrick
4* DE Stephon Wynn
and "4* LB Jake Venables" is not really a 4*, his offer list is 3 schools.

For NC
5* Zamir White (this could be the recruit that makes Bentley's collegiate coaching career. we have a shot but not the lead.)
5* DE KJ Henry (50/50 guy, clemson leads but he keeps visiting SC and Lance pursues him.)
4* DT Rick Sandidge (we have help in Concord.)
4* ILB Dax Hollifield (we lead.)
4* ATH Ricky Person (we need to get in the mix here, we could beat out NCState or Duke for him.)
4* RB Jamal Elliott (depends on Zamir, IMO.)
4* ATH Dyamii Brown (Same as Ricky Person.)

Just hypothetically (and it's not likely but just for arguments sake,) if we actually got all the guys listed above, it would give us 262 pts in the 247 Class Calculator, which would be good for a Top4 Class Nationally most years. Plus we'd have about another 8-10 guys from other states commit. We could build a dream team though just from the Carolinas' talent.

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4* WR Derion Kendrick

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I think that we have a better chance than most think we do with him. Clemson probably leads, followed by Florida, but we stay in contact with him constantly. He plays basketball with one of my co-worker's son, and he seems to think we have a decent shot.

Joyner eliminates the taters sets commitment date for June 18th. Named USC, NC State and Louisville as his top 3.