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re: Class of 2018 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: So Long Old Friend Edition
Posted on 5/8/17 at 5:07 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 5/8/17 at 5:07 pm to Cobrasize
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Is it bad that I'm not even looking forward to the summer camps, because I don't think we will even get a good commitment then
We should land some good kids by then.
One possibility is the Arizona QB Tyler Shough.
He was getting CBs to Michigan, but they accepted a commitment from that Milton kid from Florida yesterday.
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:36 am to TideSaint
Pruitt visited Teradja Mitchell yesterday.
Seeing as he took Alabama off his list due to academics, I don't know how much of an impact Pruitt is going to have.
Seeing as he took Alabama off his list due to academics, I don't know how much of an impact Pruitt is going to have.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:39 am to TideSaint
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Class of 2018 wide receiver Jordyn Adams has been focused on his top five schools since releasing the list earlier this spring.
The 247Sports Composite four-star prospect was one of the better looking receivers at the Charlotte Nike Opening Regionals on Sunday --- displaying smooth athleticism, sharp routes, and great hands.
CarolinaBlue spoke with Adams in Charlotte before the one-on-one session began.
Adams has a top five of Alabama, Clemson, LSU, Ohio State, and UNC.
"I have narrowed it down to a top five, so now I am looking at those schools," Adams said.
The only visit he has planned is an early summer trip to Alabama --- the only school on his list he has not visited yet. "They just want me to visit so I can see everything."
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:45 am to TideSaint
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West Monroe running back Slade Bolden has decided to trim his list of potential suitors down to 10, which includes the likes of LSU, Alabama, TCU and seven others.
Bolden received his overture from LSU earlier this spring, and recently visited the campus for an unofficial visit. TCU is still perceived to be the front runner for his services, but LSU has made up considerable ground in recent weeks.
It was tough but I have decided to focus on these ten schools for the remainder of my recruiting process! God is Good! #Top10 pic.twitter.com/09w1efc0dg
-- Slade Bolden (@_slade_10) May 8, 2017
Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Washington, Louisiana Tech and Arizona State round out his top 10, with no decision date being scheduled at this time. The 5-11, 195-pounder is viewed as a running back prospect by most schools, with others thinking he could play safety or wide receiver at the next level. LSU's official offer was as an athlete, but sources state that running back would be his most likely position.
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:47 am to TideSaint
Louisiana football prospects post impressive numbers in track state championships
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Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Rummel, 1st place long jump
Ja'Marr Chase has been shooting up recruiting boards this spring, and after a school record 24-2.5 feet long jump and a first place finish in his division, some track offers are likely to start trickling in as well. This is Chase's first year competing in this event, which makes the feat that much more impressive.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:47 am to TideSaint
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Devonta Smith, 3rd place 100m, 3rd 4x200 relay
This Alabama football signee was a top-ranked player in 2017 and for good reason. For whatever reason, many scouts and college coaches doubted Smith's top-end spend during his recruitment, but he put all of that to rest this weekend after posting a 100-meter time of 10.67, which was good for third place in his division. Smith also assisted his Amite team in a third-place finish in the 4x200-meter relay.
The kid who won the 100m, Josh Lister from Haughton, ran a 10.44. That's almost a tenth of a second faster than Henry Ruggs.
This post was edited on 5/9/17 at 8:50 am
Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:50 am to TideSaint
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Trey Palmer, WR, Kentwood, 1st 200m, 2nd 100m
Kentwood's Trey Palmer is a football star, baseball star and budding track star. The highly sought-after athlete finished first in the 200 meters, and finished six hundredths of a second away from a first-place finish in the 100 meters, ultimately finishing second. Palmer holds football offers from LSU, Alabama and many others.
We offered Palmer a few weeks ago.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 9:19 am to TideSaint
breaking the trend of TideSaint posts. May not be many of us posting in this thread bud, but there are many of us reading and we appreciate what you're doing.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 9:41 am to Cobrasize
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Is it bad that I'm not even looking forward to the summer camps, because I don't think we will even get a good commitment then
Melting over recruiting in May is bad.
I ain't even worried.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 9:53 am to 3down10
Who's melting?
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:13 am to 3down10
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Melting over recruiting in May is bad.
He's not melting.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:14 am to TideSaint
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Taulia Tagovailoa completed his first spring practice with Class 7A Thompson High School on Monday.
Tagovailoa, who will be a junior this fall, moved from Hawaii this spring so his family could be closer to older brother Tua, now a freshman quarterback at the University of Alabama.
Tagovailoa is a four-star recruit on 247Sports and is listed at 5-foot-11, 190 pounds by that service. He has offers from Alabama, Oregon, Utah, Syracuse, Hawaii and Florida Atlantic.
He has thrown for more than 6,700 yards and 64 touchdowns in his career at Kapolei High School in Hawaii.
Check out video of Tagovailoa along with photos, and check back to AL.com this week for more on Tagovailoa and Thompson's other recruits.
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:15 am to TideSaint
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:22 am to TideSaint
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How college football’s new early signing period affects Alabama
Nick Saban already expressed his displeasure on an early signing period in college football, but the new rule was officially passed on Monday.
Recruits will have a 72-hour window starting on Dec. 20 of this year to sign their national letter of intent to the school they select, if they wish to do so at that time. Once the letter is signed and faxed to the school, that recruit is bound to the program.
There were discussions for two early signing periods in college football — one in June and the one that was passed on Monday. Saban was vehemently against the one in the summer.
“I am absolutely, positively against any kind of early signing date, especially a June signing date before a guy plays his senior year,” Saban said. “If we want to have an early signing date after the season, then I would be more for that.”
The main reason why Saban is against the early signing period is because he feels like the recruiting calendar has already been accelerated, which doesn’t give coaches the proper time to evaluate recruits on and off the field.
Early signing periods were met with applause from smaller programs because those schools will now be able to lock in their recruits without having to worry about a school such as Alabama coming along in late December and January and flipping that recruit if it fails to land its top target. On the flip side, schools such as Alabama can now tell recruits that if they don’t sign in December, they’ll just move on and find someone else.
Then there are recruits such as Tide running back Josh Jacobs who wasn’t recruited by Alabama until January. Jacobs’ recruitment exploded in the weeks leading up to National Signing Day. With this new signing period in place, do recruits similar to Jacobs go ahead and sign with a smaller school to not risk the unknown possibility of a bigger school coming along in January?
The early signing period will help kids like Tide grayshirt JACK LB Jarez Parks. Parks’ signing day ceremony went viral when he left in tears after being told there may not be space for him in Alabama’s class. It was clear Parks favored Alabama for several months prior to signing day. If this new signing period was in place, Parks would have found out in late December if there was or wasn’t going to be space for him in Alabama’s class and he could have explored his options in January if he wished to do so.
Overall, though, I believe the early signing period favors programs over players. Programs can now get these players to sign in December and still not face any blowback if a head coach or assistant leaves after the signing period. If recruits sign and their favorite assistant leaves, the player still needs to go through the normal appeal process.
Colleges also will be able to allocate their resources better. No longer will coaches need to visit as many players as before because a good portion of them will have already signed. That will save a lot of time in January.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:23 am to TideSaint
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Tide back in the mix for in-state CB, but do they have ground to make up?
Jalyn Armour-Davis, the state of Alabama’s top-ranked defensive player, released a top 6 in February that didn’t include the Crimson Tide. In March, he told SEC Country that he reshuffled his top schools list to include Alabama.
SEC Country’s Auburn recruiting reporter Benjamin Wolk caught up with Armour-Davis over the weekend and was told that Alabama remains in the mix. The Crimson Tide reached out to Davis after he dropped his original top schools list to see how they could do a better job of recruiting him.
“They just wondered where they went wrong, and I wouldn’t say there was anything they did wrong,” Armour-Davis said. “It was just a way I was feeling. I think, from a more mature standpoint, it would just be a 10-times-better decision for them to be in it. I was more excited in the moment and wanted to push something out. I just took a step back to look at all my schools and everything outside of football.”
Now, just because Armour-Davis says he feels like it would be 10 times better if Alabama was in the mix for him, it doesn’t mean that the Crimson Tide should be considered the top contender for his commitment. According to multiple sources, Auburn and Florida State are still the two schools that have the best chance with the nation’s No. 15 cornerback (per 247Sports composite rankings).
The good news for Alabama is that Armour-Davis’ plans to commit in the summer aren’t 100 percent set just yet.
“I’m still really waiting until the summer to get all that figured out,” Armour-Davis said. “Right now, I’m more focused on St. Paul’s. When spring is over, I’ll get back started up on more visits and really start to look into making a final decision. I’d like it to be July or early August, but I’m not going to push it. Push comes to shove, I’ll just put out a top 2 or top 3 and commit after the season, but definitely before December.”
It’s been well-documented on SEC Country since National Signing Day, but cornerback is arguably Alabama’s biggest position of need in the Class of 2018 because the team didn’t sign any at the position in 2017. The Tide will also lose Tony Brown and Anthony Averett after this year and it seems likely that Minkah Fitzpatrick will declare for the NFL draft.
Armour-Davis is one of Alabama’s top priorities this year. I expect the coaching staff to really put the heat on his recruitment in the months ahead.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:23 am to TideSaint
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Tide picking it up with Seth Williams
Seth Williams, a 4-star wide receiver from Paul W. Bryant High School (Cottondale, Ala.), told SEC Country in March that Alabama had cooled down on recruiting him. He had visited Tuscaloosa, which is approximately 15 miles from where he lives, in February, but the team went nearly a month without talking to him.
That was an issue.
One reason for the lack of communication could be pointed to offensive coordinator Brian Daboll just getting settled in Tuscaloosa. Now that he’s been there for a few months, communication between Alabama and Williams are back to where it was before the offensive coordinator change.
“They’ve picked it up. They’re contacting more and calling me to try to get me out there,” Williams said.
Auburn is still recruiting Williams the hardest. The Tigers are in touch with the state of Alabama’s second-highest-ranked receiver every day. Williams said Alabama and Ole Miss are the schools behind Auburn in terms of how hard he’s getting recruited.
Williams, along with 5-star Central High School (Phenix City, Ala.) prospect Justyn Ross, is one of the Tide’s top priorities on the offensive side of the ball. Daboll has made it clear to Williams that the 6-foot-3, 212-pound prospect is wanted in Tuscaloosa.
“They need a receiver like my type in the offense, a big guy,” Williams said. “They’re looking for bigger receivers to go get it.”
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:25 am to TideSaint
Now the Auburn point of view on Seth Williams:
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What Auburn does differently than others for 4-star WR
With Seth Williams, the common question has remained the same throughout: Is it really possible for Auburn to snag a top-ranked quarterback away from Tuscaloosa, from a high school named after Bear Bryant?
It’s something I wrote about back in February after Williams attended Auburn’s junior day. At the time, his coach hinted that it was well within reason for Auburn to think it had a legitimate chance with the 4-star receiver from Paul W. Bryant High.
As the months have wore on, the likelihood has gone up thanks to one critical factor: The Tigers are pushing harder than any other program.
“They really are. They’re just always contacting me every day,” Williams told SEC Country. “They always know what I’m going to do that day. They’re just always contacting me.”
Most of Williams’ communication goes through wide receiver coach Kodi Burns, who has a busy cycle with big-time wide receiver prospects such as Williams, Kolbi Fuqua, Justyn Ross, Jacob Copeland, Matthew Hill, Kearis Jackson, Shedrick Jackson and others all interested in Auburn. Williams speaks with coach Gus Malzahn on occasion as well.
But he has a particularly close connection with Burns, which has a lot to do with Burns’ youth and recent experience as a student-athlete.
“We good. We text and talk at every chance we get. He talks with my dad and my mom all the time, too,” Williams said. “He’s cool. He understands where you’re coming from. He played in the national championship against Oregon when they played. He’s real cool. He’s young like you. He came through Auburn.”
Williams’ recruitment has been relatively tame recently as he finished up his track season. That wrapped up over the weekend when the 6-foot-3, 212-pound wide receiver showcased his speed and leaping ability in numerous track and field events.
He’ll quickly transition into a football mindset.
Williams’ first order of business will be figuring out which programs he hopes to visit this summer. He has yet to determine all of them, but when he sets that visit schedule, those will be the schools the 4-star wide receiver is considering going forward.
“I want take all my visits this summer and see where I want to go. During the summer, whichever schools I decide to visit are the places I’ll choose between,” Williams said. “I have no timeline. I’m just going to wait it out.”
Alabama, once reported to have stepped off the gas, has returned to a few conversations with Williams per week. If the Crimson Tide make a major push, it’s unknown how much that will change Williams’ impression of Alabama. Ole Miss is another program Williams said is staying in regular contact, along with Auburn and Alabama.
When he speaks with the Tigers, though, they make him feel like he could have a successful pass-catching future on the Plains.
“They’re trying to make me into an NFL wide receiver. They like my physicality,” Williams said. “You’ve just got to think that he’s [Jarrett Stidham] a pretty good quarterback, so I’d have a pretty good chance of getting the ball thrown to me. It’s things like that when you know you’ve got a good quarterback.”
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:29 am to TideSaint
Huge article on KJ Henry from the Georgia side of things (spread out over the next 3 posts)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — KJ Henry rates among the nation’s Top 20 prospects by the 247SportsComposite. The 6-foot-5, 235-pounder shows up as the nation’s No. 2 weak-side defensive end prospect for 2018.
Georgia fans will read that and think: “That’s the guy who could make me feel a lot better about the wounds left by Adam Anderson (flipped to LSU) and Brenton Cox (chose Ohio State) over the last month.
Clemson fans will think: “That’s our guy. We’re stacking up the 5-stars right now.”
I asked Henry what is the most accurate way to write about his decision at this time. He replied with what I felt was a genuine answer.
“I will take a visit in these next couple of weeks to Penn State,” Henry said. “That’s the only school in my Top 10 that I haven’t visited yet. Then I will really just hang out and get ready for my football. My school. That’s really my main focus. I want to have a great senior year with my teammates.”
That will lead to his next step.
“I will try to cut that Top 10 down to a Top 5 this summer,” he said. “I don’t know which date, but that’s how I will try to get that list down to the five schools which will be my officials in the fall. That’s important to me then because I will be an early enrollee.”
He hasn’t set a date for his decision yet.
“I’d like for it to be before Dec. 20 because that’s the early signing period,” Henry said. “I want to sign that day.”
Henry’s status is elite. He looked the part at the Charlotte Nike Opening regional. It could be said that the most college-ready performers were 5-star QB Trevor Lawrence and Henry at that event.
The West Forsyth (N.C) standout has a Top 10 that includes the likes of Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Louisville, Ohio State, Penn State, Pitt, South Carolina, Virginia Tech and UNC-Charlotte.
His home state 49ers stand out among that lot. That’s because Charlotte’s running backs coach Keith Henry is his father. It is hard to shake a man out of a Top 10 who has had daily recruiting visits around the dinner table.
How do those programs stand out?
“The easy way to see it is beyond what those coaches say,” Henry said. “Of course what they all say is ‘We want you’ and ‘You can be a big impact guy’ and all that. But honestly, the things I look to are what they don’t say. I just watch them when we are on a visit. You see how they treat you compared to other prospects. If you are the first one in there to talk to the head coach, that shows you something. Shows worth. If you don’t get to talk to him at all, that shows you something, too.”
Posted on 5/9/17 at 10:30 am to TideSaint
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KJ Henry on UGA: How he feels about the Bulldogs
The first thing to know is that Clemson does not have his commitment nailed down. Does everyone think he’s already going there?
Is that reality?
“If you would’ve asked me a year ago where I was going I would have told you Clemson in a heartbeat,” Henry said. “But my dad is a football coach. He knew what was coming. He knew what was coming for me with this process. Clemson is not the only great school out there. The Tigers won a national championship. Coach (Dabo) Swinney is a great guy. He is a down-to-your-heart type of guy but it is just different for me right now.”
The decision is broader than just the orange-and-white.
“They are still a top school for me but it is not like last year where you can just say that’s where I am going,” Henry said. “That’s not the case. I don’t know where I am going. Things change. You know within these next couple of months you don’t know who is going to be where with coaches and players and what is going to happen. I just like to let things play out and then will get to make my decision.”
Georgia would be one of his “up there” schools. How can the Bulldogs rise to being his “that” school?
“I really don’t know yet,” Henry said. “That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I think for each specific school they have to do different things. In order for (UGA) to keep moving up, they just have to have a successful year.”
“They had a good year last year, but I see them in my eyes as going to be an elite program. They have to live up to that standard I think they can be. Winning would be a really good thing for them. They have the coaches. They have the players and the right chemistry and the good people. I think just keep winning and doing things the right way.”
Getting into his size-14.5 cleats about this decision won’t be easy. He was there for the bitter loss to Vanderbilt last fall.
Georgia could play the “that’s why we need you card” after that day, but those other schools on that Top 10 need him, too. Or another guy just like him.
But they are also winning double-digit games and going to the college football playoffs.
“Georgia needs to win, win more and then keep winning,” Henry said. “That’s just the best way I know how to say that. Coach (Kirby) Smart is just getting there. He’s starting the program up the way he sees it. For a new coach like that, it is going to be hard for him to get those big wins like that early.”
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