re: Football Recruiting Thread (2017 Cycle): Signing Day Updated!

Bama been getting involved lately. Guess Saban really wants him.

Bill Gunter on 107.5 The Game alluded to some comments that Kinlaw made about Coach Muschamp and the new staff regarding his recruitment. I had to get to the office before I could listen anymore, so does anyone know what he was referring to?

Muschamp and co were one of the few staffs willing to work with him and place him in JUCO. When it came time to firm up his commitment and he was reminded of these facts, he felt like Muschamps thought process was that Kinlaw owed Muschamp/staff something. Weak excuse in my book. Doubt that we use that JUCO as much anymore. However, there have been some that said that he has an extended circle that has been pushing him towards Carolina and that the pressure as a whole has caused tensions not necessarily just our staff.

Let's have an update here. I know it's hate week and all that but I'm anxious to see where we end up.

As of right now, we are looking at a class of 21 made up of the following (according to 247):

Jamyest Williams CB 4*
OrTre Smith WR 4*
Hamsah Nasirildeen OLB/S 4*
MJ Webb DE 4*
Shi Smith ATH 4*
Will Register TE 3*
Chad Terrell WR 3*
Kyshaun Bryan RB 3*
Sherrod Greene OLB 3*
Dennis Daley OT 3* (JUCO)
Eric Douglas OT 3*
Jaylin Dickerson S 3*
Davonne Bowen OLB 3*
Tavyn Jackson CB 3*
Jay Urich DUAL QB 3*
Damani Staley OLB 3*
Tyreek Johnson DE 3*
Damarri Mathis CB 3*
Summie Carlay OT 3*
Zay Brown ATH 3*
Eldridge Thompson OLB 3* (JUCO)

If I am not mistaken, we have room for 24-25. Who do we see firming up the class leading into NSD?

The excitement for me is now the unknowns. We will surely have more attrition in the off season which gives way to those last minute flips that champ is famous for. Last season we picked up Stephon Taylor who we didn't even hear about until a week or two before NSD.

We'll probably have some more early graduates, like Jasper Sasser. That 25 target number can fluctuate quickly after the Reg Season and Bowl Game.

Chalmers and Nixon will EE from JUCO and count to last year's class, which we still have room on.

We'd probably take 4* OT/OG Moore if he wanted to re-commit, but that would mean that Elliott is coming back.

I think we'd still take Kinlaw if he wanted back in, but I also don't care if he does or not.

I think we get that 3* OT Jerry Drake, who has a solid legit offer list.

3* DE Brad Johnson 'should' come to SC, Muschamp told him he's holding a spot for him. However, if things fill up with the DL surprises b/w now and Feb, who knows if that will be there. I think JW at 247 just CB'd him to VT.

3* DE Matthew Butler has been a guy Coach LT has targeted for a long time. He had 123 Tackles, 22 TFL's and 19 Sacks this year. Made several local news highlight reels. He's quick for a guy who is probably a legit 265 lbs.

Then there is 4* CB Yusof Corker, 3* S Nate Culpeppar and 3*DT Romello Martin. Of course we would oversign for 4* S DeAngelo Gibbs as well. Apparently we haven't spoken with Culpeppar in a few weeks though.

I think I read on 247 that he is now setting up an OV to us.

One thing that I saw over there working in our favor is that Kinlaw's 1st year at Juco ends right before NSD, meaning other than OV's there is no face to face contact allowed by anyone.

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Damarri Mathis just de-committed. How high were we on him?

Does this mean that Chalmers or Nixon are higher targets?

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We honored his commitment, and we are in dire need of DBs, so I would say that we were as high as it gets. Can't afford to be losing ANY DBs from the class: I would almost say that if we lost commitments from other positions, fill the vacancies with more DB prospects. We need big help there.

ANY DB commit looks to have about as open a competition for major playing time if not starting opportunity with this team for next season. We can't offer any prospect anything better than that, so if he wants to de-commit, then see ya....

The update on 247 I saw said he tried to set up an official visit with us but wasn't able to.

Maybe he's not still a take?