Recruiting

Feel free to talk and even brag about recruiting. ACC schools, or whoever you follow. I find it interesting, but don't feel like keeping up with a ton of schools the way I keep up with draft prospects.

 

What day is signing day on this year?

 

I think it is Feb. 2nd. Not 100% on that though.

 

Feb 2nd is right.

UNC had good news and bad news Wednesday - bad news they lost Everette Brown one of the best DEs in the nation to FSU. Lots of people thought he was coming to UNC.

Good news they signed Jordan Hemby one of the better DBs in the state.

Win some lose some.

 

Everette Brown to F$U makes me sick. That is yet another NC recruit that leaves the state to play somewhere else. UNC-Ch and NC State need to step up the recruiting in this state. Neither one will be a top program until they can lock in the top talent in this area.
UNC-Ch did have a nice pick up in Jordan Hemby at DB, but I dont see him as being the impact player that Brown will probably be at F$U.

 

They only verballed. No one has signed yet...

 

Well put! I know watching NC State recruiting very closely the last few years that we have had kids who gave us their verbal and then left for other schools (Albert Dukes, WR at Ohio State). We have also gotten commitments from guys who gave their verbal to another school (AJ Davis-UNC-Ch and Jimmie Sutton-Texas). Nothing is final til signing day.

 

til then all we have to go on is where these guys have verbally committed too. Right now UNC hasn't done too bad keeping it's share of in state players with 7 commits from the top 26 players in the state. With Baker, Nicholson,Hardesty and Hannah being four players in the Top Ten who still have UNC under consideration.

Scout.com top 30 players in North Carolina

1 Toney Baker RB Ragsdale (N.C.) 5-11/215
2 Derek Nicholson LB Mount Tabor (N.C.) 6-0/228
3 Jon Crompton QB Tuscola (N.C.) 6-4/200 Tennessee
4 Mohamed Massaquoi WR Independence (N.C.) 6-2/191 Georgia
5 Montario Hardesty S New Bern (N.C.) 6-2/190
6 Curtis Crouch OL EE Smith (N.C.) 6-6/320
7 Everette Brown DE Beddingfield (N.C.) 6-4/235 Florida State
8 Jordan Hemby CB Freedom (N.C.) 5-11/176 North Carolina
9 Jonathan Hannah TE South View (N.C.) 6-5/255
10 Joe Cox QB Independence (N.C.) 6-1/195 Georgia
11 Cameron Sexton QB Scotland County (N.C.) 6-3/185 North Carolina
12 Brandon Woods WR Southern Durham (N.C.) 6-3/210 Virginia
13 Charles Gamble LB Southern Durham (N.C.) 6-3/215
14 Josh Briscoe WR Burns (N.C.) 6-3/175 Tennessee
15 Darius Massenburg DE Roanoke Rapids (N.C.) 6-4/240 North Carolina
16 Julian Williams OL New Bern (N.C.) 6-5/285
17 Brian Dixon CB South Columbus (N.C.) 5-11/175 North Carolina
18 Maurice Covington WR Southern Durham (N.C.) 6-4/180 Virginia
19 Chris DeGeare OL Glenn (N.C.) 6-4/320 Wake Forest
20 Antonio Wardlow S Parkland (N.C.) 6-1/200 Tennessee
21 Brandon Ghee CB Jack Britt (N.C.) 5-11/180 Wake Forest
22 Marquis Melvin CB Whiteville (N.C.) 6-1/200 Duke
23 James Arnold RB Davie County (N.C.) 5-11/180 North Carolina
24 Andy Barbee OL Crest (N.C.) 6-5/285 NC State
25 Mark Paschal FB Charlotte Latin (N.C.) 6-1/230 North Carolina
26 Camaron Thomas DT North Moore (N.C.) 6-5/310 North Carolina
27 Requan Boyette RB Fike (N.C.) 5-10/180 Duke
28 Levin Neal CB Ashley (N.C.) 6-0/180 NC State
29 Stephan Virgil FS Rocky Mount (N.C.) 6-0/180 Virginia Tech
30 Ted Randolph TE Davie County (N.C.) 6-4/250 Wake Forest

 

We've got Cox and Massaqoui coming Our freshman class at Georgia next year will be really stacked and our sophomore running back tandem of Thomas Brown and Danny Ware will be on of the tops in the country. I can't wait for next season, but I am still uneasy with Shockley being at QB, and our backup will be Redshirt freshman Blake Barnes. If I were Cox i would redshirt. Massaqoui should play some. He will join former teammate Mario Raley in the wide receiving core, which has hardly any experience besides Sean Bailey. So Massaqoui should get some PT as a freshman

 

UT commitments......top ranked committments in orange.



Demonte Bolden DT - 6-5/300 NR Chatham, VA
Josh Briscoe WR 5.6 6-3/170 42 Lawndale, NC
Wes Brown DE 5.8 6-4/245 19 Athens, AL
LaMarcus Coker RB 6.0 5-10/184 2 Antioch, TN
Jeff Cottam TE 5.7 6-7/250 13 Germantown, TN
Todd Cox WR/DB 5.8 6-2/195 15 Memphis, TN
Jonathan Crompton QB 6.0 6-3/211 2 Waynesville, NC * yet another top NC QB goes out of state......tisk tisk
Marsalous Johnson DB 5.6 5-8/185 33 Smyrna, TN
Ricardo Kemp ATH 5.5 5-11/175 59 Warren, AR
Andre Mathis LB 5.8 6-1/224 8 Erie, PA
Josh McNeil OL 5.9 6-4/290 1 Collins, MS
Demetrice Morley DB 6.0 6-0/176 3 Miami, FL
Malcolm Rawls OL 5.8 6-4/303 9 Memphis, TN
Austin Rogers WR 5.5 6-2/175 55 Nashville, TN
Lucas Taylor DB/WR 5.8 5-10/168 17 Lafayette, LA
Antonio Wardlow DB 5.6 6-1/185 30 Winston-Salem, NC



Bolden is by far the biggest fish. Another John Henderson. The kid is 300 right now and runs a 4.8 40. Lemming ranks Morley as the top corner. We could help here. I've never cared for UT's speedy smurf theory in the secondary. And luckly Ainge hasn't scared Crompton away.

We are still in the running for some big fish, but as is this class loks strong as is.