re: 2014 South Carolina Recruiting Thread

Longtime DE recruit Jhaustin Thomas has been officially added as a commit for the 2014 class by both Rivals and 24/7 Sports. Thomas (6-6, 255) was part of USC's 2012 class, but didn't make it past admissions and had to go the JUCO route.

At one point his offer was still good but then it looked like he wouldn't be an early December enroller for us: our policy regarding JUCOs these days is that we at least want them to be early enrollers so that they can take part in pre-season spring camps and summertime strength & conditioning programs to acclimate them into the program quicker, as opposed to waiting until fall camp and find out that they won't be much of a factor their 1st season. Or in the case of Abu Lamin, if they have 3 years to play 3 instead of 2, that's also preferable.

Now it appears he's got his grades in order to enroll early, and Deke Adams is on board for accepting his commitment, so he's now a part of the class. I don't know what this means regarding any other DE prospects we were supposedly high with for this class. We just need to make sure we bring in those 2 DE studs for the '15 class.

Thomas is the 8th member of the 2014 class...