If your team gets an unexpected boost today, throw it in here so we can all say "Which family member now works for your U?"
Well not for my teams. Obviously Michigan must have offered James Mouton a new Ford Explorer since he didn't sign with Texas. We don't do that sort of thing in Austin! But there are some interesting differences in the rankings now. USC has zoomed up and is pretty much #2 in all the services, except ESPN which has them at #1. Fla is #1, but you would have to say that USC signed the best class in the country, 12 top 100 players. But Rivals has FSU #3 and Scout doesn't even have them in the top 10. Irish slipped to #8 in Rivals and #5 in Scout. I didn't scroll far enough down the list to pick up the Ag's! Terry
so far, Tennessee has 19 in the bag. Position Breakdown: QB: 1 (Nick Stephens) RB: 0 (None) WR: 2 (Quintin Hancock, Stephaun Raines) TE: 2 (Lee Smith, Luke Stocker) OL: 4 (Ramone Johnson, Jacques McClendon, Darius Myers, Cody Pope) DL: 4 (Walter Fisher, Blake Garretson, Jarrod Shaw, Victor Thomas) LB: 3 (Dorian Davs, LaMarcus Thompson, Gerald Williams) DB: 0 (None) K: 2 (Chad Cunningham, Daniel Lincoln) ATH: 1 (Brent Vinson) By State: California: 1 Florida: 3 Georgia: 3 Illinois: 1 Iowa: 1 Kentucky: 1 Louisiana: 1 Mississippi: 1 Tennessee: 5 Texas: 1 Virginia: 1[/b]
The Gators got an unexpected surprise with Patrick Robinson a DB from Miami. He had commited to us just a week or so ago then signed with FSU today without telling our coaches he changed his mind. Also on the somewhat negative side we thought we were going to get CJ Spiller the top ranked and five star running back from Florida. He commited to Clemson. Early on a lot of people thought he was a lock to FSU. We did get Mon Williams Running back from Texas, but even though it was official it was not a surprise. All in all the Gators are very happy, 27 commits and possibly the top ranked recruiting class. Gator Bill
Buckeyes sign 20 and are heavy on the defensive side of the ball, not unusual in that we lost a ton of players on defense. Speed and needs seem to set the tone for recruiting. Offense will be ahead of the defense come September. Don
We wound up with 22: See it all here Signed and Currently Enrolled - Jan. 2006 (1) Walter Fisher - DE, 6-3, 265 Nashville (Hillsboro/Coffeyville [Kan.] CC) National Signing Day Signees - Feb. 2006 (21) Chad Cunningham - K, 6-2, 200 Dawsonville, Ga. (Dawson County) Dorian Davis - LB, 6-1, 205 Iowa City, Iowa (Iowa City) Blake Garretson - DL, 6-3, 277 Morristown (Morrristown East) Justin Garrett - DB, 6-2, 200 Baton Rouge, La. (Istrouma Senior/Pasadena [Calif.] City College) Quintin Hancock - WR, 6-2, 185 St. Augustine, Fla. (St. Augustine) Ramone Johnson - OL, 6-4, 305 Chicago, Ill. (Morgan Park) Daniel Lincoln - K, 6-0, 195 Ocala, Fla. (Forest) Dustin Lindsey - TB, 6-1, 225 Alcoa (Alcoa) Jacques McClendon - OL, 6-3, 325 Chattanooga (The Baylor School) Darius Myers - OL, 6-6, 320 Cordova (Cordova/Hargrave [Va.] Military Academy) Chase Nelson - DL, 6-4, 255 Tulsa, Okla. (Union) Cody Pope - OL, 6-5, 270 San Diego, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic) Stephaun Raines - WR, 6-1, 175 Dalton, Ga. (Dalton) Jarrod Shaw - DL, 6-4, 330 Lafayette, La. (Northside) Lee Smith - TE, 6-6, 245 Powell (Powell) Nick Stephens - QB, 6-4, 205 Flower Mound, Texas (Flower Mound) Luke Stocker - TE, 6-6, 235 Berea, Ky. (Madison Southern) Victor Thomas - DL, 6-4, 250 Olive Branch, Miss. (Olive Branch) LaMarcus Thompson - LB, 6-1, 200 Stone Mountain, Ga. (Redan) Brent Vinson - ATH, 6-2, 180 Hampton, Va. (Phoebus) Gerald Williams - LB, 6-4, 225 Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. (Boyd Anderson) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signing Day Notebook Position Breakdown: QB: 1 (Nick Stephens) RB: 1 (Dustin Lindsey) WR: 2 (Quintin Hancock, Stephaun Raines) TE: 2 (Lee Smith, Luke Stocker) OL: 4 (Ramone Johnson, Jacques McClendon, Darius Myers, Cody Pope) DL: 5 (Walter Fisher, Blake Garretson, Chase Nelson, Jarrod Shaw, Victor Thomas) LB: 3 (Dorian Davs, LaMarcus Thompson, Gerald Williams) DB: 1 (Justin Garrett) K: 2 (Chad Cunningham, Daniel Lincoln) ATH: 1 (Brent Vinson) By State: California: 1 Florida: 3 Georgia: 3 Illinois: 1 Iowa: 1 Kentucky: 1 Louisiana: 2 Mississippi: 1 Oklahoma: 1 Tennessee: 6 Texas: 1 Virginia: 1
Alabama filled its need <t>Our defense took a graduation hit so we did well at LB and DB and we really stocked up on the OL. I am extremely happy, mildly concerned that we did't take more DL but OL depth was really helped today.</t>
Tom, Gerald Williams from Boyd Anderson High School in Ft. Lauderdale was a recruit from last year. I was pretty sure he was in school. Gator Bill
Bill, The only one that was already in school was: Signed and Currently Enrolled - Jan. 2006 (1) Walter Fisher - DE, 6-3, 265 Nashville (Hillsboro/Coffeyville [Kan.] CC)
Thanks Tom, I know Williams signed with you last year and I thought he had qualified and was there last season. I guess he had to get a qualifiying score or something. He's a good player and from my Kid's High School in Ft. Lauderdale. There was a time a year ago when he was commited to Florida while Zook was there. Gator Bill
Here's an interesting breakdown of who went where in the Rivals 250. I got this from a ND Poster. A few observations: -For unknown reasons, there arre 249 players in the rivals 250. -The SEC signed nearly 32% of them. -Notre Dame signed two more than the entire Big East. -UM, PSU, and OSU signed 34, while the rest of the Big Ten signed only four. -The non-BCS schools didn't sign any. -Among major programs, the worst showings were Nebraska (1), and Tennessee (3), and Miami (7) -Some of the better showings among the non-powerhouses were Clemson and California with seven each, and Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh with five each. -Of those that didn't sign any of the rivals 250, the ones that stick out are Oregon, Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State, Colorado, and West Virginia. The raw data: SEC (79) 19 Florida 13 Georgia 13 Auburn 11 LSU 9 Alabama 3 Tennessee 3 Ole Miss 3 Arkansas 3 South Carolina 1 Mississippi State 1 Kentucky 0 Vanderbilt ACC (40) 14 Florida State 7 Miami-FL 7 Clemson 3 Maryland 2 Virginia Tech 2 Virginia 2 North Carolina 1 Georgia Tech 1 Duke 1 Boston College 0 Wake Forest 0 NC State Pac-10 (38 ) 16 Southern Cal 7 California 5 UCLA 4 Arizona 3 Arizona State 2 Washington 1 Oregon State 0 Wash. St. 0 Stanford 0 Oregon Big Ten (38 ) 14 Penn State 11 Michigan 9 Ohio State 2 Iowa 2 Illinois 0 Wisconsin 0 Purdue 0 Northwestern 0 Minnesota 0 Michigan State 0 Indiana Big 12 (24) 13 Texas 9 Oklahoma 5 Oklahoma State 3 Texas Tech 2 Texas A&M 1 Nebraska 1 Kansas State 0 Missouri 0 Kansas 0 Iowa State 0 Colorado 0 Baylor Others (11) 11 Notre Dame Big East (9) 5 Pittsburgh 2 Louisville 1 South Florida 1 Rutgers 0 West Virginia 0 Syracuse 0 Connecticut 0 Cincinnati
Very interesting, Terry. FWIW, I read in our local paper that Purdue has signed 7 JC players out of 27 total. For anyone interested (Stu?), here is an in-depth article describing Purdue's recruiting efforts and results: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/sports/13772568.htm
This is from a Gator Board, don't know which one. The interesting thing I see from both of these is that the PAC10 in terms of the 200 or so players, outside of USC only beat out the Big East. In this ranking 15 of the 24 top 220 who went to the PAC10 went to USC. I would say USC is set to dominate the PAC10 like nobody has a conference since Neb dominated the Big 8. Below are final composite rankings based on the Scout100, ESPN150, Rivals100, CFN150 and Lemming100. The basic procedure for ranking players was proposed by xxEHxx on this board. Points are assigned based on ranking and fewer points reflects a higher ranking. The key question is how you handle recruits who are not ranked by one or more services. I chose to assign each unranked recruit 175 points. This creates some separation between ranked and unranked players and emphasizes consensus picks. I critically evaluated dozens of permutations and my final system varies little from what xxEHxx proposed: 1, Percy, Harvin, WR, Florida 2, Andre, Smith, OL, Alabama 3, Sergio, Kindle, LB, Texas 4, Mitch, Mustain, QB, Arkansas 5, Gerald, McCoy, DT, Oklahoma 6, Myron, Rolle, S, Florida State 7, Sam, Young, OL, Notre Dame 8, Taylor, Mays, S, USC 9, Chris, Wells, RB, Ohio State 10, Matthew, Stafford, QB, Georgia 11, Vidal, Hazelton, WR, USC 12, Al, Woods, DT, LSU 13, Stafon, Johnson, RB, USC 14, Brandon, Graham, LB, Michigan 15, Tim, Tebow, QB, Florida 16, Eddie, Jones, DE, Texas 17, Allen, Bradford, LB, USC 18, Antwine, Perez, S, USC 19, Carl, Johnson, OL, Florida 20, C.J., Spiller, RB, Clemson 21, LeSean, McCoy, RB, Miami 22, Ricky, Sapp, DE, Clemson 23, James, Aldridge, RB, Notre Dame 24, C.J., Gable, RB, USC 25, Michael, Goodson, RB, Texas A&M 26, DeMarco, Murray, RB, Oklahoma 27, Marcus, Ball, LB, Florida State 28, David, Ausberry, WR, USC 29, Jevan, Snead, QB, Texas 30, Maurice, Evans, DE, Penn State 31, Konrad, Reuland, TE, Notre Dame 32, Steve, Schilling, OL, Michigan 33, Micah, Johnson, DE, Kentucky 34, Akeem, Hebron, LB, Georgia 35, A.J., Wallace, CB, Penn State 36, Jai, Eugene, CB, LSU 37, J'Marcus, Webb, OL, Texas 38, Darrin, Walls, CB, Notre Dame 39, Adron, Tennell, WR, Oklahoma 40, Brandon, Spikes, LB, Florida 41, Jonas, Mouton, S, Michigan 42, Justin, Boren, OL, Michigan 43, Joshua, Tatum, LB, USC 44, Connor, Smith, OL, Ohio State 45, Emmanuel, Moody, RB, USC 46, Robert, Rose, DE, Ohio State 47, Dorin, Dickerson, WR, Pittsburgh 48, Butch, Lewis, OL, USC 49, Knowshon, Moreno, RB, Georgia 50, Jamere, Holland, WR, USC 51, Justin, Anderson, OL, Georgia 52, Jamar, Hornsby, S, Florida 53, Allen, Walker, S, Mississippi 54, Nate, Byham, TE, Pittsburgh 55, Antonio, Logan-El, OL, Penn State 56, Pat, Devlin, QB, Penn State 57, Devin, Ross, CB, Arizona 58, Damon, McDaniel, WR, Florida State 59, Jared, Odrick, DT, Penn State 60, Jake, Locker, QB, Washington 61, Jeremiha, Hunter, LB, Iowa 62, Reshad, Jones, S, Georgia 63, Raeshon, McNeil, CB, Notre Dame 64, Deantwan, Whitehead, DE, Louisville 65, Demetrius, Jones, QB, Notre Dame 66, Carlos, Brown, RB, Michigan 67, Jermaine, Gresham, TE, Oklahoma 68, Brandon, Warren, DL, Florida State 69, Benjamin, Tate, RB, Auburn 70, Derrick, Hill, DT, California 71, Jacques, McClendon, OL, Tennessee 72, Na Derris, Ward, TE, Georgia 73, Marcus, Sims, LB, Florida State 74, Darian, Hagan, S, California 75, Charles, Scott, RB, LSU 76, Jarred, Fayson, WR, Florida 77, Deon, Beasley, WR, Texas 78, Adam, Patterson, DT, Michigan 79, Isiah, Williams, QB, Illinois 80, Cordera, Eason, RB, Mississippi 81, Terrance, Austin, WR, UCLA 82, Tim, Hawthorne, WR, Auburn 83, J.B., Walton, OL, Penn State 84, Ryan, Hill, CB, Miami 85, Zach, Frazer, QB, Notre Dame 86, Shareece, Wright, CB, USC 87, Jamie, Cumbie, DE, Clemson 88, Mark, Johnson, LB, Ohio State 89, Clifton, Geathers, OL, none 90, Daron, Rose, OL, Florida State 91, Lamarr, Houston, DE, Texas 92, Chris, Bell, WR, Penn State 93, Josh, Freeman, QB, Kansas State 94, Ahser, Allen, CB, Georgia 95, Steve, Brown, CB, Michigan 96, Brandon, Wood, DE, Georgia 97, Dustin, Earnest, LB, Texas 98, Thaddeus, Gibson, LB, Ohio State 99, Matt, Carufel, OL, Notre Dame 100, Michael, Morgan, LB, USC 101, Charles, Deas, DT, LSU 102, Bart, Eddins, DT, Auburn 103, Damian, Williams, WR, Arkansas 104, Sam, Shields, WR, Miami 105, Keiland, Williams, RB, LSU 106, Mon, Williams, RB, Florida 107, DeAndre, McDaniel, S, Clemson 108, Jermaine, Cunningham, DE, Florida 109, Jarrell, Miller, LB, North Carolina 110, Derek, Simmons, DT, USC 111, Kylan, Robinson, RB, Miami 112, Derek, Burton, DE, Oklahoma State 112, Phillip, Payne, WR, Texas 114, Jim, Barrie, OL, Florida 115, Derrick, Odom, LB, LSU 116, Luke, Schmidt, FB, Notre Dame 117, Javarris, James, RB, Miami 118, Aleric, Mullins, DT, North Carolina 119, Neil, Caudle, QB, Auburn 120, Riley, Cooper, S, Florida 121, Jeff, Cumberland, TE, Illinois 122, Raymond, Small, WR, Ohio State 123, Greg, Mathews, WR, Michigan 124, Jeremy, Ricker, QB, Maryland 125, Raven, Gray, DE, Auburn 126, Cameron, Elisara, DT, Washington 127, Anthony, Lewis, LB, Texas A&M 128, Ross, Homan, LB, Ohio State 128, Markeith, Summers, WR, Mississippi 130, Kurt, Coleman, CB, Ohio State 131, Jake, Bscherer, OL, Wisconsin 132, Richard, Dickson, TE, LSU 133, Marcus, Tillman, DL, LSU 134, Byron, Maxwell, CB, Clemson 134, Kiante, Tripp, OL, Georgia 136, Jared, Norton, LB, Texas 137, Brandon, Antwine, DT, Florida 138, A.J., Jones, LB, Florida 139, Ricky, Dixon, WR, LSU 140, Caz, Piurowski, TE, Florida State 141, Chykie, Brown, DB, Texas 142, Jermaine, Williams, DE, Arizona State 143, Tervaris, Johnson, DB, Miami 144, Elijah, Fields, S, Pittsburgh 144, Vondrell, McGee, RB, Texas 146, Brandon, Heath, S, Louisville 147, D'Vontrey, Richardson, S, Florida State 148, Aaron, Brown, OL, Virginia Tech 148, Jonathan, Massey, TE, Vanderbilt 150, Joe, Thomas, OL, Pittsburgh 151, Navorro, Bowman, LB, Penn State 152, Brandon, Minor, RB, Michigan 153, Dustin, Doe, LB, Florida 154, Reggie, Odom, DT, Mississippi State 155, Chris, Mitchell, WR, LSU 156, Ian, Symonette, OL, Miami 157, Chevon, Walker, RB, Florida 157, Perrish, Cox, CB, LSU 159, London, Crawford, WR, Arkansas 159, Kenrick, Ellis, DT, South Carolina 161, Darryl, Gamble, S, Georgia 162, Andrey, Baskin, WR, Syracuse 163, Terry, Grant, RB, Alabama 164, Greg, McElroy, QB, Alabama 165, Alex, Cate, QB, Oklahoma State 166, Quintin, Banks, S, Georgia 167, LaRon, Moore, DB, Texas Tech 168, Jason, Adjepong, DE, Virginia Tech 169, Chasman, Davis, LB, Mississippi State 170, Sergio, Brown, S, Notre Dame 171, Buck, Burnette, OL, Texas 172, Justin, Burke, QB, NC State 173, Ricky, Thenarse, S, Nebraska 174, Ben, Alexander, DT, Texas 174, Mario, Fannin, RB, Auburn 176, Joe, Faifili, DL, Utah 177, Ugo, Chinasa, DE, Oklahoma State 177, Jared, Mitchell, WR, LSU 179, Lance, Smith, RB, Wisconsin 179, Earl, Alexander, WR, Alabama 181, Kevin, Collier, RB, Pittsburgh 181, Kevin, Riley, QB, California 183, Vincent, Joseph, CB, USC 184, Justin, Williams, WR, Florida 185, Terrance, Anderson, CB, Oklahoma State 185, Sherrod, Harris, QB, Texas 187, Jason, Pinkston, DT, Pittsburgh 187, Lance, Kendricks, WR, Wisconsin 189, Tony, Wilson, WR, Georgia 190, Jonathan, Nelson, CB, Oklahoma 191, Richard, Jackson, WR, Notre Dame 192, Marcus, Gilbert, OL, Florida 193, Corey, Hobbs, DT, Florida 194, Phillip, Taylor, DT, Penn State 195, Aram, Olson, FB, Ohio State 195, Leslie, Ray, DT, Texas A&M 197, Leslie, Stirrups, DT, South Florida 197, Prince, Miller, CB, Georgia 199, Justin, Woodall, S, Alabama 200, Chris, James, WR, Illinois 201, Bani, Gbadyu, LB, Penn State 202, Tom, McEowen, DT, Penn State 203, Cory, Brandon, OL, Oklahoma 204, Brian, Ellis, DE, Texas 205, Jonathan, Cornell, LB, Mississippi 206, Kallen, Wade, DE, Notre Dame 206, Jacques, Rickerson, CB, Florida 208, Pha'Terrell, Washington, S, Maryland 209, Jeremy, Beal, DE, Oklahoma 209, Daniel, Wenger, OL, Notre Dame 211, Cobrani, Mixon, LB, Michigan 211, Toryan, Smith, LB, Notre Dame 213, Mike, Gee, DE, Virginia Tech 214, Jacob, Cutrera, LB, LSU 215, Drew, Gloster, WR, Maryland 216, Josh, Adams, RB, Wake Forest 217, Jake, Ballard, TE, Ohio State 218, Brandon, King, FB, Duke 218, Tyler, Lyon, QB, Arizona 220, Curtis, Bailey, OL, Oklahoma Count by Team Florida 18 USC 15 (counting Hazelton) Texas 15 Notre Dame 14 Georgia 13 LSU 13 Penn State 11 Michigan 10 Ohio State 10 Florida State 8 Oklahoma 8 Miami 7 Auburn 6 Pittsburgh 6 Clemson 5 Alabama 5 Mississippi 4 Oklahoma State 4 Arkansas 3 California 3 Texas A&M 3 Illinois 3 Wisconsin 3 Virginia Tech 3 Maryland 3 Washington 2 North Carolina 2 Kentucky 1 Tennessee 1 UCLA 1 Kansas State 1 Arizona State 1 Utah 1 South Florida 1 Duke 1 none 1 Count by Conference: SEC 69 BIG10 37 BIG12 32 ACC 31 PAC10 24 - 15 of 24 to USC (PAC = Prevent Any Competition?) Indep. 14 Big East 10 none 1 MWC 1
:idea: SoCal Prep Sports ranked the final Pac10 this way: 1. USC 2. Arizona 3. UCLA Oregon finished a miserable dead last... Mississippi did a great job out here. They took Valencia's QB who threw for about nine kazillion yds and TDs in his career and they got more than just Cornell out of Bishop Amat. Ed Orgeron knows where everything is out here and he's taking advantage of that knowledge... I still like Tyler Lyons, the QB from Hart who signed with Arizona. This was Zona's best class in years. They're on the way back... .................JO'Co
Re: Larry Grant "Grant, a native or Norcross, Ga., played two seasons at CCSF and was ticketed to enroll at Florida this spring. But an admissions snafu there led him to re-open his college choice. He took visits to Ohio State and Oregon before settling on OSU. He will enroll at OSU for spring quarter and participate in spring drills." This kind of thing bothers the crap out of me. The NCAA needs to get an across the board admissions standard.