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as for the Ship count...this puts us right at 85 with Stewart and McNeal.

i assume a couple will leave before, or during the summer practices, but we're good for now.
 
WOW! just check in to see if there's anything new, and...
Welcome home Graham!
Now back to rebuilding the deck! Who knows, we may have some more commits by the time I finish it!!
 
LOL! wasn't too long ago this board was spewing venom at this kid when he committed to BC. Looks like the dinners with Dez have finally paid off!
Great pick up for Uconn.
 
Jerry27 said:
WOW! just check in to see if there's anything new, and...
Welcome home Graham!
Now back to rebuilding the deck! Who knows, we may have some more commits by the time I finish it!!
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I know...great news.

I like this Grahm quote:
“Actually it’s something that’s out of my hands. It’s something back home I need to take care of and be there for my family, help them out a little bit more, so I mean I just need to be closer to home,” Stewart said. “It would solve a lot of problems. I was having a great time down there, was doing really well but some things are more important sometimes and you have to re-evaluate what you’re really doing somewhere.”
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Sounds like a good, well grounded kid.
 
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Man this is great news.

I hope he has a Danny Lansannah type of career and becomes,along with CC and some others, a poster child for stay at home CT superstars!
 
My opinion, I think he should red shirt. At least when 2013 comes he'll be a redshirt sophomore and Yawin Smallwood will be a junior. When it's time for Yawin to leave Stewart will have 2yrs to start at middle linebacker for us. If he doesn't redshirt he'll be a back up and when its time for him to start he'll only have 1yr to play for us as a starter.
 
CTEagle said:
LOL! wasn't too long ago this board was spewing venom at this kid when he committed to BC. Looks like the dinners with Dez have finally paid off!
Great pick up for Uconn.
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you can have mackay lowrie.
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Like my post dan!!!;)
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nope your now on my bad side. i'm jacked about this as u can see. :D

i was getting all the possible likes out for the usuals becuase sooner than later fishy is going to ban me for my conf rel fun. :p
 
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HuskyfanDan said:
nope your now on my bad side. i'm jacked about this as u can see. :D

i was getting all the possible likes out for the usuals becuase sooner than later fishy is going to ban me for my conf rel fun. :p
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Only if you start a UNLV recruiting thread...
 
rich1122 said:
He is not a shoe in to start. We are VERY deep at LB.
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All of a sudden? LB, aside from QB was arguably the thinnest position on the team last year. I understand Vann, Donahue and the RS FR. from GA can't think of his name, are a year older and been practicing in the system, but aside from Donahue the other two haven't seen the field. These guys will need a rest, I think we see a lot of different sets and a lot of bodies will be needed at LB. On paper we are deeper, but none of those guys are proven and/or have seen the field yet.

Edit: Not to mention, Graham got in on ST's all year, and practiced with and against some of the best in the country. Let them duke it out in camp and see who has shown they are worthy of starting or seeing regular snaps.

I am glad he is coming back to CT. Hope all is well with his family. Seems like a very good kid. Maybe he can coax Will Tye back to CT from FSU. That would be a nice big bodied kid to add at TE.
 
It can be fairly said that he's got as much experience as every linebacker we have except for Moore and Donahue.

He played every game last year for and SEC team on special teams meaning he was practicing with the 1/2's and competing every day against very high level talent.

Who else on the linebacking group has more than an entire season of college film?
 
Chin Diesel said:
It can be fairly said that he's got as much experience as every linebacker we have except for Moore and Donahue.

He played every game last year for and SEC team on special teams meaning he was practicing with the 1/2's and competing every day against very high level talent.

Who else on the linebacking group has more than an entire season of college film?
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Say what you want. This lineup will be hard to break into. Glad he is here and the competition will only make us better.


2 Jefferson Ashiru 6-1/227 Linebacker RS FR Powder Springs, Ga. (McEachern)
52 Ryan Donohue 6-0/242 Linebacker SR Montvale, N.J. (Maryland)
3 Sio Moore 6-2/229 Linebacker RS SR Apex, N.C. (Apex)
33 Yawin Smallwood 6-3/235 Linebacker RS SO Worcester, Mass. (Doherty)
41 Brandon Steg 6-2/226 Linebacker RS SO Coral Springs, Fla. (J.P. Taravella)
46 Marquise Vann 6-0/224 Linebacker RS FR Cincinnati, Ohio (Fairfield Senior)
 
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moore-small-don-stewart

any chance we can go find a OL that can play right away lol, this is unreal the adds were making.
 
Welcome back, Graham! I wish we were celebrating this day two years ago, but I am ecstatic to see this guy in American Flag Blue and White. I hope that everything is indeed fine with his family and they can be an inspirational force as he continues his education. I agree with a lot of you that Muschamp was very classy for treating Graham's release with dignity, privacy, and respect.

This state loves it's homegrown players and you will hear a rousing cheer from many boneyarders when you take the field. Welcome to the UConn family, Graham.
 
rich1122 said:
Say what you want. This lineup will be hard to break into. Glad he is here and the competition will only make us better.


2 Jefferson Ashiru 6-1/227 Linebacker RS FR Powder Springs, Ga. (McEachern)
52 Ryan Donohue 6-0/242 Linebacker SR Montvale, N.J. (Maryland)
3 Sio Moore 6-2/229 Linebacker RS SR Apex, N.C. (Apex)
33 Yawin Smallwood 6-3/235 Linebacker RS SO Worcester, Mass. (Doherty)
41 Brandon Steg 6-2/226 Linebacker RS SO Coral Springs, Fla. (J.P. Taravella)
46 Marquise Vann 6-0/224 Linebacker RS FR Cincinnati, Ohio (Fairfield Senior)
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Exactly my point! That's why I think he should redshirt for a year. This way he can get more familiar with the defense, settle in his redshirt year with family, and it will give him 2yrs to start with Ashiru and Vann as soon as Yawin Smallwood leave. There's no rush to put him in where good at linebacker as of right now. Just because he practiced with good players doesn't mean anything..
 
Why not wait until you see if he has to sit out before we worry about it too much. The NCAA may 'solve' the problem without needing to make a decision.
 
rich1122 said:
Say what you want. This lineup will be hard to break into. Glad he is here and the competition will only make us better.


2 Jefferson Ashiru 6-1/227 Linebacker RS FR Powder Springs, Ga. (McEachern)
52 Ryan Donohue 6-0/242 Linebacker SR Montvale, N.J. (Maryland)
3 Sio Moore 6-2/229 Linebacker RS SR Apex, N.C. (Apex)
33 Yawin Smallwood 6-3/235 Linebacker RS SO Worcester, Mass. (Doherty)
41 Brandon Steg 6-2/226 Linebacker RS SO Coral Springs, Fla. (J.P. Taravella)
46 Marquise Vann 6-0/224 Linebacker RS FR Cincinnati, Ohio (Fairfield Senior)
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Thanks for illustrating my point.

Sio Moore and Donahue have more film than Stewart, and Smallwood has as much.

Steg, Vann and Ahsiru haven't played a down of football at the BCS level, whereas Stewart has played an entire season at that level.

I'm not saying he is better or worse than any of those players. I am saying he has more game and practice experience though. That isn't debatable.
 
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If we decide to play 3-4 most of the time, we have enough coverage to rotate kids in and out. Great news.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Thanks for illustrating my point.

Sio Moore and Donahue have more film than Stewart, and Smallwood has as much.

Steg, Vann and Ahsiru haven't played a down of football at the BCS level, whereas Stewart has played an entire season at that level.

I'm not saying he is better or worse than any of those players. I am saying he has more game and practice experience though. That isn't debatable.
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Steg played special teams last year.
 
Stewart's transfer is like finding money in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn in a while. A very talented kid added to a position that already has some good depth. More importantly it tells a lot about how stable we are with Coach P and his staff compared to his original choice of BC.
 
Doesn't look like BC was ever consulted or considered. Speaks volumes about the train wreck that think is becoming....
 
This is totally contrary to Boneyard thinking on recruits. First, he was Four-stars and "stars" don't count - only FHCRE's appaisal (definitely not the fact, he just couldn't recruit said player). Second, how's this kid gonna make the jump from Florida to a program like UConn (remember who else recruited the kid never matters. Miami of Ohio or University of Miami, it just doesn't matter, or so we've heard).

Just being a wiseguy. This is really good news and I hope he makes a real mark on the program. Although he goes from scoring a TD on New Years Day at a bowl game against Ohio State to possibly opening up against UMass in '12 in front of 40K fans maybe. Ahhh. . . maybe he become an All-American. How cool would that be?

As for Stewart playing right away. . . I'm guessing that if the NCAA rules favorably they will, in turn, take away another scholarship in men's basketball and declare the Huskies ineligible for the NCAA Tournament through 2020 for failure to meet academic levels in the school year 1996-1997 and for having players on sholarship at one point who actually were "complicit" in having a conversation with Nate Miles at one time or another.
 
businesslawyer said:
Steg played special teams last year.
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Busted me on that one.

Point I've been trying to make is that he has a game film resume as strong as many of our linebacker.

By playing special teams as a true freshman he had his red shirt burned meaning the coaches were using him throughout the week for practices and game film and he had to prepare himself as if he was going to be playing defense. And he played it against the highest level of college football.

I'm not knocking any of our current players and I'm not annoiting Stewart as the second coming of anyone.

What I am saying is that he is a big time catch and has shown he can play at the highest level of college football which is a good thing.
 
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