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Wake Forest Football Recruiting

Dekin said:
I saw that. Still wishing we had Whitter.
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Not that it matters, but Will Shipley is almost assuredly not going to NC State. He's the #1 APB in the country, and Bama, Clemson, tOSU, and ND are all after him hard. I'm guessing he goes to ND. CMC's old RB coach is there (wants to be like him) and he's got friends already committed there to play lacrosse.
 
sportsmed86 said:
The two guys he finished behind are Whittier who is All State and going to OU and Shipley, one of NC's All State rbs. Me likey.
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In Wake's last 50 years, this is exactly the kind of no-name recruit that turns out to be a star, much like Rod Griffin and Tim Duncan in bball and Bill Armstrong and James McDougald in fb.
 
dcon69 said:
Gavin Holmes is a great get- light, fast and athletic. Light can be fixed. NOLA produces really good players- UVA picked a good one up for this class. Glad to see we are working the area.
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Sounds like a solid guy for the (future) defensive backfield. Good to see he has speed.

Welcome Gavin!
 
tigerswood said:
Not that it matters, but Will Shipley is almost assuredly not going to NC State. He's the #1 APB in the country, and Bama, Clemson, tOSU, and ND are all after him hard. I'm guessing he goes to ND. CMC's old RB coach is there (wants to be like him) and he's got friends already committed there to play lacrosse.
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Nick Saban was in town Monday. Went to the MPHS basketball game and watched Drake Maye, sat with the football coach behind the bench. Drake is a little shorter than Luke, but probably more athletic. Has a couple of 30 point games this year as a junior.

Coach Saban, Dabo, and Brian Kelly all visited Weddington and Shipley on Tuesday.

The RB coach at ND is Lance Taylor who played at Alabama and was most recently WR coach with the Panthers for two years, working with DJ Moore and sticking with CMC.

Weddington won state 3AA championship two straight years and is stacked again for next year. Junior QB is a stud and also throws a baseball 90 mph.

Wake is getting WR Will Cobb from Weddington as a preferred walkon.
 
BiffTannen said:
Nick Saban was in town Monday. Went to the MPHS basketball game and watched Drake Maye, sat with the football coach behind the bench. Drake is a little shorter than Luke, but probably more athletic. Has a couple of 30 point games this year as a junior.

Coach Saban, Dabo, and Brian Kelly all visited Weddington and Shipley on Tuesday.

The RB coach at ND is Lance Taylor who played at Alabama and was most recently WR coach with the Panthers for two years, working with DJ Moore and sticking with CMC.

Weddington won state 3AA championship two straight years and is stacked again for next year. Junior QB is a stud and also throws a baseball 90 mph.

Wake is getting WR Will Cobb from Weddington as a preferred walkon.
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With regards to Maye, hearing he may be transferring from Myers Park for his Senior year. Heard originally he was going to Weddington, but another high school seems to be in the running as well. He started his high school career at Hough and if he does transfer, it will be his third high school in four years. Also, do not bet on UNC being out of the running for him. They are still recruiting him hard and some people believe he will eventually end up at UNC.

Regarding Shipley, most believe it is a three team race of Notre Dame, NC State, and Clemson. He reportedly likes the academic angle of Notre Dame and the chance to play football at one of the highest profile schools in the US. Additionally, he has developed a relationship with some of the recruits in his class. Distance will likely not be a factor. His brother plays lacrosse at Penn, so the impact of going further away for college is likely not a negative. Most believe if he were deciding today, it would be Notre Dame.

As far as Clemson is concerned, they are pitching the ability to play for national championships and doing it while playing close to home. Clemson already has another top tailback in his same recruiting class, but they are pitching him on being used as a multi-purpose back and not just a running back - similar to how Stanford used CMC. Clemson has the most crowded RB roster of the three (considering the high level of the roster), so they do have to pitch different angles.

With respect to NC State, the recruiting was disrupted when State parted ways with his main recruiter, Des Kitchings. Reportedly, Doeren is now taking the lead on recruiting him, along with the new OC (Beck) who State just hired from Texas. Beck has been by his school to visit and they had a lengthy discussion and film review session when Shipley attended NC State's junior day. Both of his parents attended NC State (his mom played soccer there) and supposedly over 20 relatives are also NC State graduates. He grew up a fan of NC State, but he has stated that this will not be a factor as to where he eventually decides to go. Other schools high on his list are Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, Ohio State, and Alabama. NC State did sign a Weddington teammate and very close friend of Shipley's this recruiting cycle (Kicker Ian Williams).
 
BiffTannen said:
Nick Saban was in town Monday. Went to the MPHS basketball game and watched Drake Maye, sat with the football coach behind the bench. Drake is a little shorter than Luke, but probably more athletic. Has a couple of 30 point games this year as a junior.

Coach Saban, Dabo, and Brian Kelly all visited Weddington and Shipley on Tuesday.

The RB coach at ND is Lance Taylor who played at Alabama and was most recently WR coach with the Panthers for two years, working with DJ Moore and sticking with CMC.

Weddington won state 3AA championship two straight years and is stacked again for next year. Junior QB is a stud and also throws a baseball 90 mph.

Wake is getting WR Will Cobb from Weddington as a preferred walkon.
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That would be pretty wild as a HS kid to have all those coaches visit your school on the same day.
 
jaybone said:
We offered a 2022 QB in the last day or two. Gets rid of the ball extremely fast and with accuracy; very good touch as well. Looks 12 year old in a uniform. Only 5'11" right now, so hopefully he has yet to finish growing ...

http://www.hudl.com/profile/11093272/Rocco-Becht
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Looks like our QB recruiting strategy is to focus on Italians from Florida.
2021 - Santino Marucci
2022 - Rocco Becht
Some great names...……..
 
bicycledeac said:
With regards to Maye, hearing he may be transferring from Myers Park for his Senior year. Heard originally he was going to Weddington, but another high school seems to be in the running as well. He started his high school career at Hough and if he does transfer, it will be his third high school in four years. Also, do not bet on UNC being out of the running for him. They are still recruiting him hard and some people believe he will eventually end up at UNC.
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Yeah, the Maye to Carolina thing has always made sense, especially wrt available playing time after Sam Howell leaves, and obviously his dad playing QB there. Crum actually was fired after Maye's senior year before they hired Mack Brown. Also, Alabama's loaded at QB.

Scott Maye went to Independence, which later produced CJ and Chris Leak and Hakeem Nicks, as well as Joe Cox.

I wouldn't be shocked if he moved on from MPHS as he's losing a couple of key targets.
 
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Hough is usually loaded, but had a bit of a down year last year. Their QB graduated, but they have a high 4 star RB in Evan Pryor, who might be a tOSU lean at this point. Seems like them and UGA lead for his services. I'd bet Maye ends up there.
 
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