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Did Wilson commit to Oregon already??
LSU fans say there is a lot of butthurt from both father/son as he wanted an offer but was told to come to a camp 1st.
He didn't like that and told them to scratch him off the list.
It seems he feels he's the # 1 corner in the state while LSU coaches probably have him more like #4 or #5.
Did Wilson commit to Oregon already??
Ya just did according to Eric nahlin
^ Just read something on twitter too. Wilson to Oregon
Good luck to him. Can't blame the kid for looking elsewhere with our backfield, and Oregon seems like a good fit for him.
Well see how things are for dontre when coach Kelly takes off for the nfl. I doubt he's a Oregon very much longer.
Good luck to him. We always knew that he wanted to go to Oregon. Remember that one conversation Thomas Johnson had with him on twitter and how they wanted to go to Oregon?? That time Johnson said something about getting high?? I think I knew then that Wilson was going to Oregon.
Im not really upset about Wilson to Oregon. He was definitely a luxury pick and quite frankly I dont blame him for his decision. Now we can use that scholly on someone more vital. I wish we would extend a offer to Priest Willis but i think Akina likes more of a CB/S hybrid and Priest is a pure safety. Plus we already have a offer out to a pure safety in Harris.
Shuttlesworth over at IT was posting he believes that Kenny Stills is on thin ice over at OU due to now failing two drug tests. Sounds like at minimal they will have watchful eye over him and at this point even the slightest slip and he'll be dismissed from team.
I know Shuttlesworth had posted about this earlier that other players on the team were pissed b/c they felt like better players got preferential treatment over issues like this (remember the WR that was a senior and his father posted a bunch of stuff to twitter slamming OU?). I think the inference was Stills had failed a drug test back then and they still let him play right afterwards.
I don't remember seeing this earlier:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...-son-lou-holtz
Seemed odd not to hear more about it.
That is awesome. Best of luck to him and hopefully he ends up like major did coaching here
Quotes from WR Cayleb Jones on moving to campus for his freshman year:
"I'm not really nervous. I'm excited. I'm ready to things rolling, get around the guys in my class," Jones said. "I'm just ready for this whole process to start."
"I'm ready to just start playing football on this level, trying to make an impact on this level. I want to be a great player at Texas, not just stop playing at the collegiate level."
"There's a package they sent me a while ago, workouts we follow. I do the (Texas) team workouts," Jones said. "I talk to a bunch of guys on the team about their workouts. You just have to mentally prepare yourself for the beating, the tough workouts in the morning. It's just going, going going all the time. The hardest thing is mentally preparing for it. We all have physical attributes to get us here, now you have to be mentally prepared too."
"It's good weight. I can run fine. I'm just me maturing. It's just me maturing and filling out," Jones said.
"I feel like they wouldn't have recruited me if my responsibility would have been to sit on bench," Jones said. "I'm preparing for that. It will be tough to lean a lot of positions, but that's why we play football. Whatever they tell me to do, I'll do it. whatever gets me on the field."
"The offense is very complex. A lot of players have specific roles, some others don't. I want to be able to know multiple roles that will help the team if someone goes down."
"It's going to be a big adjustment - school, study hall, a lot of responsibilities. It's time to grow up and be a man," Jones said. "You'll have fun playing football, but it's also your job. You're here to do schoolwork first, football second. Stay out of trouble. It's going to be fun and it's something I'm looking forward to."
"UT is the place I felt most comfortable," Jones said. "The players always make me feel comfortable any time I go there. It's a place I grew up around and I wanted to play football there and make people happy."
"You can't control what people say," Jones said of the occasional recruiting rumors that popped up. "There were times people would say things I supposedly said, and those words never came out of my mouth. It's all in the past now. I'm ready to move in and move in."
Latest with DE Hassan Ridgeway (24/7):
“I’m heading down to Austin tomorrow to get settled in,” Ridgeway said on Saturday. “I’ll be rooming with Torshiro (Davis) and am really looking forward to it. It’s exciting, but at the same time I’m a little nervous. I mean, you’re getting to watch these guys on TV all year long and now you’re going to be playing with them. It’s no longer high school ball. It’s the big boys. I’m ready though. I’m ready to go out and compete.”
“I’ve been doing a lot of running,” said Ridgeway. “After football, I was in basketball for a little bit. Then, once that was over, I started up track. So there was a lot of running involved in doing both of those things. Plus, I was also working out and lifting weights on my own. I’ve been doing Bennie’s (Wylie) workouts and those have really been paying off. They took awhile to get used to, as they were much different, but I got them down.”
“They want me to be a run stopper,” Ridgeway explained. “So I need to work on a few things to really be a good one. I definitely have to get a lot stronger than I am so I can handle offensive linemen more easily. I also want to get a lot faster so I can chase those guys down before knocking them down. Those are the two things I’ll focus on.”
“There are two things I want to do when I’m out on the field,” explained Ridgeway. “The first is to wreak havoc every single time, no matter what I’m doing out there. The second is to make as many plays as I can. I want to be everywhere the ball is. That’s what’s important as a defensive player.”
“I just want to be on the field,” Ridgeway said. “I want to play. Of course I’d love to see a lot of time on the field on defense, but I’ll also contribute on special teams if they need me. I just want to play. If they don’t need me right away, I also have no problem redshirting. That way I can continue to get better and help my team out later down the road. But, like I said, I want to play, so hopefully I can see the field early. I think I can make that happen if I go out there, work hard and show them what I can do. That’s all they ask for and I know I can do that. It just all depends on me.”
Latest from DT Alex Norman (24/7):
“Since that (the injuries) happened I’ve been trying to rehab my body and getting everything right with it,” said Norman. “That has all been going real good. My injury that I had doesn’t bother me anymore and I feel like I’m back to 100 percent now. I go up to the school every afternoon and workout for a little over an hour. I’m just trying to get all my work in so that I can be prepared and ready to go. I definitely don’t want to go down there and show up out of shape or anything, so I’ve been pushing myself hard every day to work out.”
“As far as my workouts go, they’re pretty tough,” Norman said. “I do all of Bennie Wylie’s workouts, but then I also add some in from my high school coach that really help me out agility wise. It’s been paying off. I feel way better, stronger and quicker. I can especially tell the difference in my feet. They’re a lot faster and I just have better agility with them. I really feel like I’ll do quite well once I’m down in Austin.”
“I’m really just trying to improve every aspect of myself as a player,” Norman told Hookem.com. “There is always room for improvement, no matter how good of a player you are. There are a few certain items I’m zoning in on as well. My quickness, explosiveness and strength are real important to me since I’m a defensive tackle. The more those things improve, then the better player I become. But, like I said, I’m working on everything. I can’t just focus on one thing. You always have to keep working hard at everything.”
“I just want to get out there and take care of business,” he explained. “I want to do what I do and just show everyone how good I can be. I give it all I have every single day in the off-season and I plan to give 110 percent every single play during football. I know if I do that, I’ll be doing some good things and making some big plays out there.”
“The idea of redshirting is something I’m considering,” Norman said. “I’m still thinking about it all and trying to weigh the options of redshirting versus not redshirting. I think it will all depend on how I do the first few weeks down there. That will probably help me determine my decision. Right now though, I want to play. Plus, the coaches have told every single player coming in to be ready to play. They want fresh legs in the game constantly. So I have to be prepared no matter what.”
Quotes from K Nick Jordan (24/7):
“I’d love to start my freshman year,” Jordan said. “I feel confident in my abilities and think I have it all down. Obviously redshirting will always help, no matter what the position, especially with getting bigger and everything. At the same time though, at my position specifically, there’s only so much you can learn before you’re put in the spotlight. So honestly, I feel like I’m ready to start if given the chance.”
“The coaches have told me I have a really good chance of playing as a true freshman,” Jordan told Hookem.com. “I just have to keep doing what I’ve been doing and work hard. Obviously I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but they said I definitely have a chance to come in and potentially have a spot. I just have to keeping getting better and really show them that I have what it takes to earn that spot.”
“For the most part, they’ve been talking more about me kicking field goals,” he explained. “There’s a chance I could contribute everywhere, except punter probably. But kicking field goals would be my main thing. Coach Applewhite told me that’s what they’re currently having the most problem with is (field goals), so he said he wants me to focus the most on it and work on it constantly.”
“Mainly, I just don’t want to let down the coaches,” Jordan said. "They’re expecting a lot from me, so I don’t want to come in and let them down and make them think I’m not what they expected. So, for the most part, I just want to live up to what they expect from me.”
“I’ll actually be rooming with Ben Pruitt. I’ve gotten to know him some since I took my official visit to Texas a long time ago. He was my host during that time, so we really hit it off,” he said. “Since then we’ve stayed in touch and he’s been giving me pointers. Not really advice on kicking or anything like that, but just telling me what to expect once I get down here. He told me that the first day will be the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but once you get through that it gets better. He said try to get prepared, even though there’s no real way to be completely ready for it all.”
“Recently I’ve been doing a lot of lifting,” Jordan told Hookem.com. “I’m following Coach Wylie’s workouts. I’m trying to get as big as I can before I get there. I can really tell the difference in myself now that I’ve been doing them. When I look in the mirror, I can easily see I’m much bigger. I have more mass now and have gained probably five or ten pounds in muscle since doing them. I’ve also been trying to make sure I’m where I should be with my kicking. I want to make sure I’m on point, 100-percent when I go down there. I’m just trying to get to where I need to be so I can really show the coaches what I can do when I get there."
Mark Richt of Georgia with an interesting hire:
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012...ogs_recruiting
24/7 had an update to their national rankings recently and worth mentioning that S Vonn Bell is now a five-star and WR Robbie Rhodes is now in the Top 50.
Report on Cole Luke at 7-on-7 in AZ --
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Two of the nation’s top cornerback prospects were on display at the Phoenix Under Armour Sevens 7-on-7 tournament on Saturday at Hamilton High School. Cole Luke (Chandler, Ariz./Hamilton) and Priest Willis (Tempe, Ariz./Marcos de Niza) both lived up to their billing as elite prospects.
2- Cole Luke, CB, Chandler (Ariz.) Hamilton
As far as a pure cornerback goes- Luke looked better than Willis. Willis ranks higher as a prospect because of the versatility factor and his size, but Luke is one of the best pure cover corners in the country in a recruiting cycle where the position is extremely deep. Luke’s ability to change directions and recover stood out as elite. Several times, it looked like he literally came out of nowhere to break up passes. Oklahoma seems to still be in good shape here, but a Texas offer earlier this month likely puts the Longhorns in the thick of things as well.
Free article on 247 with below written on Von Bell:
http://247sports.com/Article/Five-ne...3-Top247-75232
"We’ve been talking about Bell being a five-star for the longest time and made the call to go ahead and pull the trigger. Rankings are comparisons and many times you get a look in person at other prospects, then go back and compare. Once you get a feel for how they stack up, then you can better make a determination on a ranking. This was the case with Bell as we feel that not only his outstanding playmaking ability on film, but his versatility (something we reward) is a plus. It would not surprise us to see him end up playing cornerback at whatever school he picks, which is definitely wide open at this point (though we think the SEC or possibly Texas). He is now No. 18 overall in the Top247 and No. 2 at safety."
Forgot to add Cole Luke listed his top schools at the UA sevens as Cal, Nebraska, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Oklahoma.
Update on RB Kyle Hicks' broken foot. He will have surgery on Wednesday:
"When I got to the 200 meter mark of my leg (at the regional track meet), I felt a pop in my foot," Hicks said. "I went ahead and finished the race off. But whenever I walked on the field, I couldn't put any pressure on it or walk very well."
"At first, didn't know it was broken. I finished the race, but when I started walking, it hurt really bad," Hicks said. "When I felt the pain, I had a pretty good idea it was broken again."
"The doctor had cleared me, but he said the bone hadn't fully healed all the way. I probably should have waited a little while before running," Hicks said.
"I go in with the at ude, I have to get healthy. I never want to be the guy on the sideline watching the team," Hicks said. "It was really frustrating, so it motivates me to get back healthy and never have to go through it again."
To add to this:
"If the coaching staff is solid, if people are going to be there and no one is leaving, I'm going to go there," Luke said.
Luke, 6 feet and 165 pounds, seems to have an idea of a school that he perceived would offer that stability.
"Texas," Luke said. "I like them a lot right now."
New Rivals100 has been released. OL Darius James somehow fell out and S Vonn Bell still isn't listed:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...ings/rank-3053
#17 QB, Tyrone Swoopes, Whitewright
#18 ATH, Ricky Seals-Jones, Sealy
#32 OL, Kent Perkins, Richardson Lake Highlands
#45 LB, Mike Mitc , Plano Prestonwood Christian
#46 LB, Deoundrei Davis, Cypress Woods
#54 S, Marcell Harris, Dr. Phillips (Orlando, FL)
#61 OL/DL, Jake Raulerson, Celina
#72 WR, Jake Oliver, Dallas Jesuit
#74 DE, Torrodney Prevot, Alief Taylor
#76 DT, Justin Manning, Dallas Kimball
#87 OL/DL, A'Shawn Robinson, Fort Worth Arlington Heights
#93 CB, Antwuan Davis, Bastrop
Great news on Luke!
Any ideas of which positions Texas' still "heavily" recruiting? CB, S, LB, DE, DT and an OL or am I completely off target?
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