The competition in South Carolina is no match for Chas Dodd and Byrnes.
Most of the news lately is centered around all of the out of state targets coming in for the West Virginia game, although a couple locals will be coming the week after that. Maryland receiver Brandon Coleman will be in the house, and the big question is whether he commits, or takes any other official visits.
“I have the Rutgers visit planned for December 4th,” he said. “I’m trying to get Maryland set up soon. I think Maryland is going to be after the season now.”
Other Maryland targets will be making the trip with Coleman, but athlete Josh Furman (and his totally awesome goggles) won’t be. He’s down to Michigan and VT, and my guess would be VT. Speaking of the Maryland area, the Post just had a feature on the Kouandjio brothers. Rutgers was the newest offer for younger brother Cyrus, but it doesn’t look like Arie is as interested as teammates Lorenzo Waters or (especially) Shane Johnson in becoming Scarlet Knights.
The other big target this year is Florida, which has been friendly to Rutgers in recent years, and assistant Brian Jenkins has been working his tail off to reestablish the Knights down there. The one guy to watch is WR/DB Tim Smith. When a West Virginia site is calling Smith a Rutgers/WVU battle, chances are he could very well land in Piscataway.
“The school that’s on him the most in Rutgers,” Hutchings said, adding that RU recruiters have been to watch Smith play this fall.
Other names to watch include Ace Sanders and Jeremi Wilkes. As always the pay sites will likely have far more information about the many other visitors.
Now, 12/12 is on the backburner somewhat with all the names expected to attend on the fifth, but the following weekend will bring visits from the likes of Tejay Johnson.
Johnson is juggling EHT’s playoff run with the demands of being a college recruit. Nebraska, Cincinnati, Michigan State, Rutgers and Syracuse have offered him scholarships. He has visited Nebraska and Cincinnati and plans to visit Rutgers on Dec. 12.
ZAGSBLOG echoes earlier reports about T.J. Clemmings being down to Pitt, Ohio State, and Florida.
FL DE Giorgio Newberry is a new 2011 offer in the Scout database. In 0ther ‘11 news, St. Peter’s Prep DB Sheldon Royster picked up an offer from West Virginia. Neptune RB Charles Davis will soon start taking a few unofficial visits. West Virginia is one of the teams following PA ATH Terrell Chestnut.
Watchlist: Taj Alexander, Myles Jackson, Tyrone Johnson, Doug Rigg, Artie Rowell, John Shkreli, Nate Smith, and James Timmins.
4 responses so far ↓
Sec117 // November 24, 2009 at 9:22 pm |
So Taj Alexander comes on board as another no-star, under the radar, potential blah blah blah. So will Flood do his magic and Cuse kids will be blowing by him on blitzes in a few years, or will he be on D and get flattened by Cuse’s JV line because we’ve got the bickerin’ coordinators.
Sorry, after Saturday and after the underwhelming verbals from Milewski and Alexander, ya gotta wonder when Schiano and his program jumped the shark in the Maryland game in 2007.
bs // November 24, 2009 at 10:01 pm |
Do you know anything about either player?
I don’t, but it’s worth pointing out that the staff did turn away “name” players at both positions. Doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t prefer Darmstatter or Floyd, but still.
That last comment is ridiculous considering that we haven’t seen all that much from the ‘09 class yet.
43defense // November 24, 2009 at 10:34 pm |
A reporter in SE PA had Alexander as the second best DL player in the area behind Floyd. There was an ariticle in a PA paper saying WVU among others were interested in the kid. When you see no stars, it usually means the coaches didn’t send in tape on the kid. And another paper picked the kid for all-state in their HS preview. So maybe it’s better to take a wait and see attitude.
Sec117 // November 25, 2009 at 10:18 pm |
Please … do you really believe that RU did that much more homework on a kid with his size than any other D-1 program? There are no secrets in PA or NJ.
C’mon, this is Mo Lange or Mike Fladell all over again. I thought that after 9 years the program would be beyond taking 50/50 shots in November. These are the types of kids that are last night offers in February for teams that can afford to wait for their big targets. Obviously, RU is out of it with so many of their early offers that the staff is out poaching kids from Monmouth (Milewski) or Temple (Opoku).
Oh well, better to try to lock up your Plan B kids in November, 2009, instead of Plan C kids in early February, 2010.