re: 2015 South Carolina Football Recruiting Thread

Do we have list of recruits going to the game this week?

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247 4* ILB, Amonte Caban has SC in his Final 3, he surprisingly eliminated Miss St.

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LB Amonte Caban of Smiths Station, AL said earlier this week he might have his decision made by Wednesday. Well, Wednesday has come and gone and Caban has not made his decision.

"I have a lot of great opportunities and options in front of me," Caban said. "I want to be sure that I am deciding on the best fit for me both athletically and academically. The plan is to be in a better position to make a decision by tomorrow (Thursday) but my verbal may not come until next week."

Caban said his mother wanted to talk to all of his recruiters one final time and she has done that. The conversations included USC linebackers coach and recruiter Kirk Botkin.

"It went very well, she loves him," Caban said. "I like it up there and she is going up there soon and I believe she will like it."

Caban said his decision is down to USC, Tennessee and Louisville eliminating Mississippi State and Kentucky from his list.

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Per 247, SC is very interested, but we are trying to get him to hold off on making a decision as we wanted to see if a new WR was going to emerge into our '15 recruiting picture.

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Monday Caban committed to Louisville. Don't know if this was due to our asking him to hold off on his commitment, or even telling him we're done at LB, or what. As recently as Sunday (day before his commitment) 11 of 12 crystal ball predictions had him to USC, with 2 new ones coming last weekend. So this seems to have surprised everyone.

Also don't know if he's still coming to Columbia for the UGA game as was previously expected but I would be surprised if he did....

Visitors for this weekend.

2015
Jaire Alexander (Charlotee, N.C./Rocky River)
Damon Arnette (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas)
Shameik Blackshear (Bluffton/Bluffton)
Zack Bailey (Summerville/Summerville)
Amonte Caban (Smith Station, Ala./Smith Station)
Austin Clark (Lexington, Va./Rockbridge County)
Brady Cromier (Ladys Island/Beaufort)
Mon Denson(LaGrange, Ga./LaGrange)
Mark Fields (Cornelius, N.C./William Amos Hough)
D.J. Jones (Scooba, Miss./East Mississippi Community College)
Arden Key (Hapeville,Ga./Hapeville Charter
Dexter Neal(Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson)
Lorenzo Nunez (Marietta, Ga./Harrison)
Sherrod Pittman (Jacksonville, Fla./First Coast)
Darius Slayton (Norcross, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian)
Austin Smith (Suwanee, Ga./Buford)
Roquan Smith (Montezuma, Ga./Macon County)
D'Andre Walker (Fairburn, Ga./ Langston Hughes)
Jerad Washington (Jacksonville, Fla./First Coast)
Antoine Wilder (Hapeville, Ga./Hapeville Charter)
Quandeski Whitlow (Opelika/Opelika)

2016
Marlon Character (Atlanta, Ga./Grady)
Larry Collins(Hopkins/Lower Richland)
Kyle Davis (Lawrenceville,Ga/Archer)
Stephen Davis Jr. (Irmo/Dutch Fork)
Nygel Edmons (Chattanooga, Tenn./McCallie School)
Bryan Edwards (Conway/Conway)
C.J. Freeman(Greensboro, N.C./Northern Guilford)
MeCole Hardman (Elberton, Ga./Elbert County)
Javon Kinlaw (Goose Creek/Goose Creek)
Tre Lamar (Roswell, Ga./Roswell)
Tyrique McGhee (Fort Valley, Ga/Peach County)
Brandon McIlwain (Newton, Penn./Council Rock North)
Dedrick Mills (Waycross, Ga./Ware County)
Isaac Nauta (Buford, Ga./Buford)
Nyles Pinckney (Seabrook/Whale Branch)
Demetris Robertson (Savannah, Ga./Savannah Christian Prep)
John Simpson (North Charleston/Fort Dorchester)
Jamie Skalski (Newnan, Ga./Northgate)
Chandler Tuitt (Tyrone, Ga./Sandy Creek)
Naseir Upshur (Philadelphia, Penn./Imhotep Institute)
James Valdez (Santee/Lake Marion)

2017
Breon Dixon (Suwanee, Ga./Peachtree Ridge)
Deangelo Gibbs (Suwanee, Ga./Peachtree Ridge)

Basketball visitors
PF Chris Silva (Roselle, N.J./Roselle Catholic)
G Jacob Evans (Baton Rouge, La./St Michael the Archangel)

Meh, 1 game doesn't impact those guys that much, they're really just looking at the environment.

Otherwise, the year we stomped uga into the ground, we would've got a bunch of 4 and 5 star recruits from that game. That game was loaded with visitor talent.

Yea we got lucky on that one

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Most of the 2015 guys know where they're going already. I think this game was more important for locking down our current class since it's so OOS heavy. No way you don't want to stay committed after watching that game in the stadium w/ the fan support.

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That's a good point, also, that '16 list of visitors was pretty stacked, it should help us get some return visits from them in the spring/summer and hopefully an OV next year.

Update on '14 signee Darin Smalls, now a possible CB for the '15 class and EE.

https://www.goupstate.com/article/20140915/PSPORTS02/140919734/-1/PSPORTS

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DB Darin Smalls, a 2014 USC signee from Summerville who could not enroll in August because the ACT people flagged his last score, will need to retake and pass the test again, to be able to enroll in January. Smalls said Monday he was recently informed him that his qualifying score was invalid.

"I took it at another school with about 20 other kids," Smalls said. "I'm not sure why it was flagged. Either my answers or someone else's were close. A proctor was there." Smalls said his score did improve a lot from the previous test but he credits that to the preparation he put into the test.

Smalls is waiting to hear back from the ACT regarding the proctors for his next test. Once he gets that letter, he will set the date for what will be his fifth test. He is also taking an on-line class in which he says if he makes an 'A', that, too, will aid him in qualifying. But, if he gets a qualifying test score, he said he can drop the on-line class.

Smalls tore his ACL and LCL in the third game of last season and has been rehabbing ever since. "I'm just starting to get back to the gym," he said. "They knee is better, making a lot of progress. I can run, jump and cut." But he hasn't had contact on the knee.

Smalls has kept in contact with the Gamecocks and has been in for all three home games. "Everything is good with USC," he said. "I thought it was an outstanding game (vs Georgia). The defense stepped up. I was impressed with Al Harris Jr. He held his ground."

Once he arrives at USC, Smalls expects to be throw right into the mix at corner.

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Dorman is a traditional Clemson pipeline iirc.

Would be nice to get a foothold in there.

RB Commit, Mon Denson went off on Hardaway HS last night. 9 carries, 191 yards, 4 TD's.