College Football Recruiting (2015 Class) Discussion
 

Because it's never too early :D

Tonight 5 star OT , nations consensus #1 OL recruit and the number 16 overall recruit according to Rivals.com, Mitch Hyatt of North Gwinett HS commits to Clemson where his uncle Dan Bemish starred on the 1981 national championship team.

Hyatt is the 6th pledge to the Tigers 2015 class joining:
4 * WR Shadell Bell
4* lb (will start his college career at safety) Tanner Muse seriously check this guys profile photo out he looks like vanilla ice
3* OT Noah Green
3* qb Tucker Israel (will get a ratings bump after evaluation. Led the state of Fl in passing yards as a jr but at 6'0" 175 he needs to beef up)
3* db Van Smith

The tigers are expected to sign 28-30 this class.

Ucla already has two verbals, one from short Florida LB victor Alexander and from the consensus #1 TE Alize Jones.

USC already has 3 commitments although I suspect 1 won't stick:

5 star QB Ricky Town
4 star QB David Sills who I suspect will go elsewhere
DB Taeon Mason

USC had a big junior weekend early and the potential is there for an elite class in their first class of 25 in a few years.

OU currently has 4 commits for 2015. It should be a great year for us.

From Rivals:


Bobby Evans 4* OL (#212 Overall)

Du'Vonta Lampkin 3* DE

Marquise Overton 4* NT (#153 Overall)

Josh Wariboko 4* OG (#67 Overall)


OU is also close to securing commitments from the #32(Jalin Barnett) and #226(Will Sunderland) players.

I already saw 'Bama has 7 commits with one being a non-four-star so the influx of talent continues to come in. I'm far more interested to see how Michigan and MSU do.

LSU has consensus top 3 (#1 on some sites) player in CB Kevin Toliver out of Florida, regarded as a Patrick Peterson clone in terms of skill and athleticism. Also have 5* OL Maea Teuhema out of TX and top 5 RB Nick Brossette from Baton Rouge amongst their 6 commits

Rutgers has two in NJ QB Mike Dare and PA RB Saquon Barkley, who's a 4* and top 200 kid on Rivals. He'll be very tough to keep, and hopefully once Flood is fired and the replacement is brought in, he'll be able to hold on to him and build with a stacked OL class in the state.

Fucking Urban.

Kyler Murray, come on down to College Station, buddy!

What?!? I can't believe this! Lane insisted he would be a star! :p

So far for BYU's 2015 class

4 * CB Dayan Lake
4 * DE Mika Tafua
3 * MLB Will Sedgewick

Good start

Georgia Tech has one 3* commit for 2015, OL Will Bryan (Franklin County HS) that's the son of a former UGA OL

Tennessee has seven commits, 4x 4* and 3x 3*. Top of those is probably WR Preston Williams of Lovejoy (GA) HS and DE Andrew Butcher of Alpharetta (GA) HS

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I bet MJ4H is mad he isn't going to Arkansas.

So Mora had a surgery this morning, put under and everything. And two hours after, he's up, bouncing around and getting ready to host a top 2015 recruit for this weekend.

This man is both dedicated and crazy.

Despite offering, Clemson has no chance with a TX kid A&M wants...but Kyler is amazing.

It's more of his dad being a star there than anything. OU fans would love to have him as well.

Understood...but its not just him.

Ever since Morris joined Clemson we are crop dusting offers into TX with as much chance of landing a kid as the back up tuba player has with the head cheerleader

Both Markeyvious Adams and Kaleb Chalmers had visits at Clemson recently for the 2015 class also. I coached both of these kids at lower levels (Parks and Rec as well as middle school).

Adams is a great WR and a heck of a basketball player. I personally believe he is a better basketball player but I am assuming he is only being recruited as a wideout for the 2015 class. He has got to be leaning heavily towards Clemson for a number of reasons. The OC at GHS has a nephew at Clemson (Charone Peake). It is apparent from recent drafts that Clemson wideouts get noticed at the next level also.

I don't know as much about Chalmers since I only coached him 1 year at Parks/Rec. He definitely had the potential to be a great player.

Chalmers is a DB and the better of the 2 prospect, IMHO.

Greenwood is not kind to Clemson. There are other influences there that make to hard to pull players.

I think Adams likely ends up at UGA or SC and Chalmers probably looks to get out of town. I expect Auburn to offer and that to be over soon there after.

What's the deal on Alvin Kimara CU? Seems like it's down to UCLA and Clemson?

UCLA's quarters schedule likely is the deciding factor in their favor.
Doesnt look like he can maintain academic eligibility at Clemson based on withdrawing from Bama over Christmas.

Plus....there are some hurt feelings there. Id love to have him, but I dont think he'll be a Tiger.

UCLA lands 4* WR/ATH (5* on 247) Jaason Lewis. He comes from Virginia and UCLA apparently wants him to play RB. He's listed at 6'3 230

Just thought Id update...

Kamara enrolled in JUCO late last week. That coincided with Clemson telling him they were moving on. The arrest and his reaction were the last straw for the staff.

After a year in JUCO he will be eligible to transfer to any school that accepts JUCOs (Clemson does not at this time) and will not be subject to the no SEC condition of release...

Yup, never saw any official word from UCLA based media sources but it was also my assumption they would move on from Kamara after the arrest. Such a shame, stupid decision at such a key time.

This isn't a 2015 recruit, rather a 2019 recruit. The nephew of Ty and Coy Detmer, a 6 foot 4 eighth grader, has given a verbal to attend LSU.

Texas junior high QB, 14, commits to play for LSU | www.statesman.com

Badgers have a decent tight end out of Cali and also a dual threat QB out of Utah Austin Kafentzis. (Both 3*) It will be interesting to see Wisconsin go away from the typical pro style QB.

And he certainly didn't get that height from them.

BYU is going after Koy's kid, like what I have seen of him on film.

Josh Rosen will be deciding in about three weeks

Rosen visiting Michigan

Charlotte, NC - CB Mark Field -

Will be a SC Gamecock...

announcement hasnt been made public yet, but thats the word tonight from the horse's mouth.

Looks like UCLA is still in the lead.

While he's not a big name, RB Shannon Brooks committed to Georgia Tech one day after the Jackets made an offer. Assuming all goes well, he will become the first ever BCS school signee for my HS alma mater.

Shannon Brooks Verbally Commits to Georgia Tech - pickens.fetchyournews.com

Washington got their QB when Jake Browning committed this past Monday. Browning is a consensus 4-star prospect who has put up huge numbers in a pass-heavy offense at Folsom H.S. in California (breaking many state records along the way). With USC and UCLA focused on Town & Rosen respectively, that left the path wide open for the Huskies to get him. He picked Washington over offers from Alabama, Cal, Colorado, Utah, Washington State and Boise State.

Interesting to note that he made his decision ahead of schedule and effectively took the spot that was widely expected to go to Brett Rypien (nephew of Mark Rypien). Reportedly Rypien was not happy about Browning's early decision, but them's the breaks - if Rypien really wanted to go to Washington, he should have jumped on the offer sooner. Now it appears he'll head to Boise.

It's a ridiculously deep class of strong QBs out west this year.

I'm hoping this works out similar to how the QB class of 1988 did ;)

Ah, the Rick Mirer class

More specifically, the class where Todd Marinovich ended up at USC, Brett Johnson ended up at UCLA and Washington had to "settle" for Mark Brunell.

Perhaps, but I think Brady White might fit into that scenario as well :)

He might. Travis Waller too.

Boy, this is getting crazy. Pinkel has always been known as a guy who takes two and three star guys and coaches them up to be good players. People have always asked what would happen if Pinkel landed a class full of high quality players. It appears we're about to find out. Mizzou has five commits thus far and three of those five are four star players. Add in that one of the best DL players in the nation (Terry Beckner Jr.) stated today that Mizzou is his leader and it's pretty clear that Mizzou is likely to land their best recruiting class ever under Pinkel.

To put this in perspective, Mizzou has landed five four-star or better athletes in the last three classes COMBINED.

Yeah but what the people REALLY want to know is if Pinkel has a PS4 or an XB1. Thats what matters.

Another rim shot - of the those five 4 or 5 stars, how many are suspended from the team indefinitely?

Came here to post that link.
Great article.
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I'm not sure what the participants in the College Football Playoff get this year. I'll certainly post it once Pinkel puts it on Twitter. I'd guess a PS4 as none of those teams want to be associated with second place.


This is the SEC. That's why you have backups.

And DGB is off the team

And into "counseling".

Missouri Tigers dismiss Dorial Green-Beckham from team in wake of incident - ESPN

edit to add: Y'know, I dunno whether putting that in quotes is fair or not. It was intended as part snark perhaps, also simply just to indicate that was his choice of words. Maybe he's sincere, maybe he isn't. {shrug} I don't live with the kid every day, never even been in the same room withhim, so I don't know one way or the other.

Clemson building a nice OL class in 2015 with Mitch Hyatt and Jake Fruhmorgen recently signing on. That's an area of recruiting where they have been underwhelming in the recent past.

Don't sleep on Noah Green either.

My concern is we continue to address needs by stacked classes. A few years ago we had no WR, then signed the #1 WR class in the nation. Now those gusy have all graudated and we are trying to load up again.

Need a nicce balance approach instead of feast or famine.

And the next famine is coming on the D line. Clemson will likely have the best D line in the country this year and then 6 of the Top 8 graduate.

Interesting story out of Utah...

This kid plays in BYU's backyard, has grown up a BYU fan and his dream has been to play for BYU...issue BYU has right now with the Mission rule changes is a scholarship crunch and this kid who BYU would love to have is a casualty of that, lack of Scholarships for the position(s) the kid plays...

The 4-star USC/Florida State recruit jilted by BYU - Utah Valley 360