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Guys, whats going on here!!??? Two 3*'s commit this week and it just blends into the recruiting news?? I had no idea Lemelle (WR) and Ornsby (DE) signed!! We need to have an announcement thread so these commits dont get swept to the side for a few days.... Great news nonetheless!!
 
Doggie Style said:
Guys, whats going on here!!??? Two 3*'s commit this week and it just blends into the recruiting news?? I had no idea Lemelle (WR) and Ornsby (DE) signed!! We need to have an announcement thread so these commits dont get swept to the side for a few days.... Great news nonetheless!!
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Ummmm.......there are threads about these 2 already. And neither of them have signed yet.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Ummmm.......there are threads about these 2 already. And neither of them have signed yet.
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Got it. Just saw Lemelle on the bottom of the page and Ornsby on page two. Too many threads here to keep up if you don't jump on the page every day.....
 
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Gus Edwards drops the orange as expected...

"The Syracuse football team lost one of its most highly prized recruits when Augustus Edwards decommitted on Thursday night, according to scout.com.

Edwards, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound running back from Totenville (Staten Island), committed to Syracuse in July. He wavered, however, after coach Doug Marrone and much of this staff left for the Buffalo Bills. He now will decide between Florida State and Miami.

Syracuse, still looking for a running back in this class, will focus on Laray Smith of Brooklyn. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound track star is smaller, but faster, than Edwards. He's rated as the No. 2 running back in the state. Smith has narrowed his choices to Syracuse, Indiana and UConn, and he's visiting Indiana this weekend."

http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2013/02/syracuse_football_loses_august.html
 
What's interesting to me about Gus is that while he will likely enjoy 5 years in the sun, he is being recruited by those schools as a FB. At SU he would have been a RB.
 
HuskyfanDan said:
at su i think he would have been a lb fwiw

i am a bit confused with whats actually going on with laray smith this weekend.
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Me too. Maybe doing a doubleheader... Indiana today - UConn tomorrow?
 
NY News says Laray is visiting Indiana, Dez says it's UConn. Who knows.
 
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I would assume he's being told by someone on the UConn coaching staff no? He mentions both players at the same time, wouldn't be suprised if he got the info from the same person but who the he11 knows.

I expect Laray is up at UConn this weekend, whether today or tomorrow.
 
desmondconner 11:11am via TweetCaster for iOS
Chris Britton, 6-3, 207-pound OLB from Harrisburg, PA visiting #UConnFootball

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desmondconner 11:14am via TweetCaster for iOS
#UConnFootball also looking at Jalen Branford, a Blidi Wreh-Wilson type corner out of Reading, PA...He's visiting this weekend, too

6-1 180 w/ more of a basketball pedigree than football. (AAU York Ballers) - http://www.centralpahoops.com/jalan-branford-2013.html

Interest from St Fran PA, Quinnipiac, Monmouth, Mount St Mary's and Siena.
 
HuskyfanDan said:
we are really reaching at DT now. we offered brian carter from harrisburgh pa and the kid committed to temple anyway...
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It's all about relationships... someone must be coming up the ranks in Harrisburgh in 2014/2015.
 
HuskyfanDan said:
ok then why would we reach? u reach for players to fill slots. by reaching in a hotbed your telling the good players at that hs that there buddy who is fringe is good enough for your school and they may think hes not that good compared to them. now your looked at as a easy school vs others to make the team type ideal....

when u reach u reach for certain reasons filling slots. local kids or new hs places where the name needs to be built. the past week we rocked the crap out of that local sports section in the paper i imagine. no need to then put a reach and lose it to temple after that good momentum. w/e
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Your "reach" is someone else's "want".
 
UConn came into the last few weeks of the recruiting season with a pretty lengthy list of "needs" and "wants"

Needs were - OT, CB, OLB, DT
Wants were - 2nd QB, another playmaking WR, 2nd RB,

UConn didn't hit on all these positions so far, not having a 2nd DT to go with Fatukasi and seeming on the outside looking in for Laray Smith as another RB, but in all other areas the staff has done a great job finishing the class. The huge difference I am seeing is that most of commits over the last few weeks have held at least one and in some cased many BCS offers.

Wright at OT had NC State and Penn St offers
Britton at OLB has a Pitt greyshirt offer
Boyle at QB had BC, Pitt, Florida, Syracuse
Lemelle at WR had over 6 BCS offers

You can also addin Fuchs who is a hybrid WR/TE with great size who also had BCS football offers from Rutgers and Iowa St.

The one kid without a BCS offer is Branford at CB. I know he is a hoops player making the transition to football, but based on this little blurb I found from a Penn. paper he doesn't lack a desire to make contact and seems to have a great upside in football. This is apparently a really good "flyer" to fill a position of need.

1. Heavy Hitter- Jalen Branford has to be the hardest hitter we’ve seen this season. My goodness, he is everywhere on defense and delivers jarring hits on a regular basis. He did miss a few tackles on what appeared to be run-blitzes, but all and all he is one of the more impressive athletes this county has to offer. If you doubt his hitting ability, just ask Exeter QB Kyle Yocum, whom he hit so hard it echoed throughout Shirk stadium. That was a huge collision, as Yocum is as big as his offensive lineman.
For the first time in its history UConn will potentially have has 4 3-star QBs on the roster (the only ? is whether Lagow waivers with Boyle competing). Whitmer is a JR, Cochran as a RS Fr, and Boyle and Lagow as Fr. That is a huge step for a program that has always scraped the bottom of the BCS barrel for QBs, most of whom had limited if any other BCS interest (i.e. Casey Turner, Nebrich, Hernandez, ect...). Having 4 legit BCS level QBs is a huge positive for this program.

Just a side note - many here wanted Adazzio as the HC because of his percieved recruiting prowess, especially in the northeast. Adazzio has recieved only 1 commit since taking over the reigns at BC in early December and has lost 4 players with BCS offers. Apparently, Adazzio was good at selling a Florida program to northeast kids. Whether that is truly great recruiting is still to be determined.
 
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UConnRock said:
Just a side note - many here wanted Adazzio as the HC because of his percieved recruiting prowess, especially in the northeast. Adazzio has recieved only 1 commit since taking over the reigns at BC in early December and has lost 4 players with BCS offers. Apparently, Adazzio was good at selling a Florida program to northeast kids. Whether that is truly great recruiting is still to be determined.
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No on Adazzio.

You can't compare a coach who was brought in in mid-December with someone like P who has been at UConn 24 months. None of P's critics blamed him for the class he closed on four weeks after getting to Storrs. Adazzio deserves the same chance to show what he can or can't do in Chestnut Hill. Hopefully, he'll fail miserably but the last two months are simply not evidence of that.
 
businesslawyer said:
No on Adazzio.

You can't compare a coach who was brought in in mid-December with someone like P who has been at UConn 24 months. None of P's critics blamed him for the class he closed on four weeks after getting to Storrs. Adazzio deserves the same chance to show what he can or can't do in Chestnut Hill. Hopefully, he'll fail miserably but the last two months are simply not evidence of that.
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I would agree with this sentiment if not for the fact that our conference situation is 100x more screwed up than is BC. They should have leverage in the recruiting game right now that we are lacking. And yet we are flipping their players. That speaks to the quality of PP's recruiting over Addazio's....just my opinion, of course, but I think that it's a reasonable one...
 
You wouldn't have flipped Boyle if Addazio didn't tell him he should think about other options because he wasn't a fit but that's another argument. The 2013 was close to full when he got there and he honored all the commitments. It wasn't like he had the opportunity to come in and bring in a bunch of kids. Never mind the fact it was so late in the game and half the time he's been on the job has been a dead period. If early indications for the 2014 class are any indication were going to have a very good class especially in the NE.
 
BCeagles24 said:
You wouldn't have flipped Boyle if Addazio didn't tell him he should think about other options because he wasn't a fit but that's another argument. The 2013 was close to full when he got there and he honored all the commitments. It wasn't like he had the opportunity to come in and bring in a bunch of kids. Never mind the fact it was so late in the game and half the time he's been on the job has been a dead period. If early indications for the 2014 class are any indication were going to have a very good class especially in the NE.
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Is that your story for Jasudowich too? Just wondering....
 
No Jazz left on his own but Boyle has openly said that was the case I don't know why you would argue that.
 
BCeagles24 said:
No Jazz left on his own but Boyle has openly said that was the case I don't know why you would argue that.
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What I'm arguing is that PP was able to flip two former BC players to come to UConn. There is nothing else to argue, because it's true (assuming they both sign LOI's). As for Boyle, keep in mind that he had scholly offers from other places as well, including Florida, so it's not like there wasn't some convincing to do on PP's part. He did the job....that is all....
 
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BCeagles24 said:
No Jazz left on his own but Boyle has openly said that was the case I don't know why you would argue that.
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I have some more info than most on his situation and will tell you that UConn was there much more the past couple of months.
 
UConnDan97 said:
What I'm arguing is that PP was able to flip two former BC players to come to UConn. There is nothing else to argue, because it's true (assuming they both sign LOI's). As for Boyle, keep in mind that he had scholly offers from other places as well, including Florida, so it's not like there wasn't some convincing to do on PP's part. He did the job....that is all....
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I don't dispute that obviously he did flip and it is what it is I'm just saying if we brought in a pro style guy he's not going anywhere. Regardless it doesn't matter. You have Boyle as your starter and we clear the path more for Lowrie win win IMO. It's good for both teams.
 
businesslawyer said:
No on Adazzio.

You can't compare a coach who was brought in in mid-December with someone like P who has been at UConn 24 months. None of P's critics blamed him for the class he closed on four weeks after getting to Storrs. Adazzio deserves the same chance to show what he can or can't do in Chestnut Hill. Hopefully, he'll fail miserably but the last two months are simply not evidence of that.
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Nobody "blamed" P for the class he closed with because he closed very well with significantly less time than Adazzio. P was away from college football for a lengthy period, but hit the ground running with recruiting. If you remember correctly, P got commits form Ashiru (3 other BCS offers) and Hemmingway (4 other BCS offers). He also filled out the class with Campenni who was a bit of a flyer at DT. He also only lost 1 player after the Edsall departure and that was Amos to Penn St. Amos may have made that move even if Edsall stayed as PSU was a favorite of his. Pasqualoni was hired on January 14 and Addazio was hired on December 4. A huge time difference for recruiting.

On the other hand, Adazzio who was a college HC and supposedly had lots of recruiting connections has shot lots of blanks with his closure of the 2013 class. The talk of BC having a full class because Adazzio was honoring all the commits seems to be BS when in fact BC has had at least 4 players decommit and one commit since his hiring. Simple math that BC is minus 3 on players since his arrival. BC lost 4 players with other BCS offers and replaced one with a kid with MAC offers, they have only 5 commits on the offensive side of the ball with 2 QBs, 2WRs and a RB. No Olineman at Olineman U, unless the force Montgomery to the other side of the ball.
 
UConnRock said:
Nobody "blamed" P for the class he closed with because he closed very well with significantly less time than Adazzio. P was away from college football for a lengthy period, but hit the ground running with recruiting. If you remember correctly, P got commits form Ashiru (3 other BCS offers) and Hemmingway (4 other BCS offers). He also filled out the class with Campenni who was a bit of a flyer at DT. He also only lost 1 player after the Edsall departure and that was Amos to Penn St. Amos may have made that move even if Edsall stayed as PSU was a favorite of his.

On the other hand, Adazzio who was a college HC and supposedly had lots of recruiting connections has shot lots of blanks with his closure of the 2013 class. The talk of BC having a full class because Adazzio was honoring all the commits seems to be BS when in fact BC has had at least 4 players decommit and one commit since his hiring. Simple math that BC is minus 3 on players since his arrival. BC lost 4 players with other BCS offers and replaced one with a kid with MAC offers, they have only 5 commits on the offensive side of the ball with 2 QBs, 2WRs and a RB. No Olineman at Olineman U, unless the force Montgomery to the other side of the ball.
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You've convinced me. I hope every AD is smart enough to judge their coach's recruiting by the few weeks from when they take it over, and not be so stupid as to wait for even one full recruting cycle. That would just be outrageous and putting off the inevitable.
 
businesslawyer said:
You've convinced me. I hope every AD is smart enough to judge their coach's recruiting by the few weeks from when they take it over, and not be so stupid as to wait for even one full recruting cycle. That would just be outrageous and putting off the inevitable.
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I wasn't trying to convince anybody of anything, just pointing out the facts as they stand now. If P came in in 2011 and promptly lost 4 of the top recruits there wouldn't have been very many happy people on this board. Given that Adazzio was one of the top HC candidates for many on this board and also for the beloved Mr. Burton, I thought it was an interesting comparison. Argeed that a 2 year HC has recruiting advantages, but it is not like Adazzio lost his recruiting contacts when he moved.
 
I think BC made a great hire in Addazio who has a track record as a fantastic recruiter, from Syracuse, to Notre Dame, to Florida.
 
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