re: State of Gamecock Recruiting for 2018

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It wouldn't surprise me to see Thomas, Belk, Sadidge, and Wynn Jr. All be Clemson Tigers. They all going to IMG at the request of Clemson's staff, and Clemson owns IMG. Who else are our top targets for 2018? Oh yeah, that RB White - he's all Tiger too......

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Wynn was probably always going to be a Tiger and we have gone after Master Teague from TN harder than Zamir White just because of the reality that it is more of a UGA/Clemson battle. Other than that I think we are still in play with Thomas, Belk and Sandidge. As far as Belk's commitment is concerned, I think this situation was as follows:

Clemson, I think, doesn't have a huge class next year either. They had the best of the best of the 2018 class there on campus and Belk realized the simple truth that if he even thought he MIGHT want to go there then he had to commit right then or lose out on even having the opportunity. That being said if Xavier Thomas committed that early it would be a huge loss. One thing that they have been able to do is to not only get guys to commit that early but once they commit they are heavily pressured to not visit other schools. How Belk responds to communication with our staff will be very telling.