re: Class of 2015 Recruiting MEGATHREAD - Twilight Edition

So, that is Ronnie Harrison on the left?

We've got some big arse Safeties. Harrison/Hootie would make quite the size duo.

I don't think damien RS. I think he will get serious carries behind henry. Tyren Jones will have his work cut out for him. Tenpenny looks bleak. And I see Drake as a situational role

From the UGA recruiting thread:

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From last night:
There hasn't been a lot of movement with Minkah Fitzpatrick that I haven't covered before. The information we had before has been confirmed again in the last 24 hours that everything still looks good for the Seminoles. I would call a flip from Alabama to FSU "very likely" at this stage. He recently reached out to the staff. Fitzpatrick had an up and down week at the Under Armour event where he had a pick the first day, but also got beat later on in the day. Regardless, FSU wants him badly and that point has been made clearly once again to me as of Wednesday.

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One of the biggest reasons Fitzpatrick is so high on the 'Noles is his relationship with FSU defensive coordinator Charles Kelly. Fitzpatrick even spoke with Kelly before and after the Under Armour events. Fitzpatrick doesn't have any visits planned, but we hear it wouldn't be a surprise if he visited FSU before National Signing Day.

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Staff needs to go all out on keeping who we have after Harris commits tomorrow. Don't wanna lose Minkah.

I also do not want to miss out on Rico.

I am not convinced about Harris yet and some seem to be very confident.

Last update from Kentucky Sports Radio:

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When it comes to Damien Harris’s decision tomorrow, I can’t say with certainty what he will do. Damien has done a tremendous job keeping things quiet and for the most part, very little information has leaked out. My educated guess is that he will pick Alabama, but it just a guess. Sometimes in recruiting, you know what someone is going to do. I was confident that Carlton Bragg was not picking Kentucky, confident that Skal and Briscoe were picking the Cats and felt good about Elam and Barker last year. But sometimes you get educated guesses, but don’t know for certain. That was my feeling two years ago when Nerlens Noel made his decision and on the football side, the same thing was true when Ryan Timmons pulled the trigger for the Cats. In both cases, I hoped UK was the pick but was not sure.

All I have been hearing in the last 36 hours has trended towards Alabama. That comes almost exclusively from those around Damien. Do they know? I guess we will find out. I do not believe the coaching staffs yet know what Harris will do and reports that he has told UK he is not coming are, I believe, incorrect. We had planned earlier in the week to do our KSR show live from the announcement, but I decided to cancel that after talking to some folks around Madison Southern on Wednesday. No matter what happens with the kid, he is a great young man with a bright future and I don’t want to add to the circus if he doesn’t pick the Cats. A day of build-up, followed by a letdown, wouldn’t be the greatest for Harris, so I decided we wouldn’t go. In my view, it is much better for us not to be there and then he surprises everyone with a UK pick than to go and spend a day only setting up for disappointment.

With all of that said, in recruiting, sometimes we are surprised. While I flipped by pick on Wednesday from Kentucky to Alabama, maybe that was premature and those I spoke with were more confident than they should be. Also, it is possible that while Alabama was the choice Wednesday, things changed in the last 48 hours…odder occurrences have happened in recruiting. And then there is always the possibility that this could be the greatest swerve in recruiting history, with info leaked out to have folks going one way, and then the final decision hits the other way. We won’t know until tomorrow afternoon. Whatever happens, I hope Damien becomes a Cat because he will be a HUGE part of the future of UK. But if he doesn’t and joins the Tide, I wish him nothing but the best. He is a great young man and will be successful wherever he goes.

My educated guess is Alabama. I hope I am wrong.

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I'm getting that creeping feeling that Harris picks Kentucky too.

It's Kentucky. If not he is trolling them badly. Look at what all he has favorited on tweeter the last 12 hours. All Kentucky stuff. Favoriting is a better way to tell because you can kinda hide it, unlike retweeting.

Yeah, you always have to be skeptical when a kid has a really quiet recruitment and all of a sudden there is all this info out there. Looks like a smoke screen to drum up interest. UK bound.