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2015 FB Recruiting: Mr. South Carolina Matt Colburn signs with #theawakening!

I am realizing that with Keith Washington committing to Duke, OL Clayton Johnston changing his mind on making a trip, and DL Brentavious Glanton cancelling there are very few known visits on the horizon. Many of the big targets have already been in this summer. Here are the known visitors:

OL Quarvez Boulware (date not clear - but soon)
DE Kengera Daniel (July 18 for Friday Night Lights)
CB Kei Beckham (date not known)

Also, ATH-turned-CB TaQuon Marshall, but I'm less sure he is a target.

I think that JJ Arcega-Whiteside might have said that he is considering a summer visit. He has been a multiple-time visitor already, so if he doesn't come I don't think it is a terrible sign for our chances. Would be great for Wake if he did make another visit though.

Guys that I would like to see come in: Kameron Eloph, Dior Johnson, and Taylor Boose. I would also like to see Nathan Gilliam and Tyler Higby come back, even though they visited in the spring. Dior Johnson is critical, because I think he has only camped at Wake. Guys like Marcus Marshall and Nate Mays, who also got offers at camps, were able to come back later for actual unofficial visits. I don't think that Dior Johnson was able to do that.

July 18 is also the only remaining camp. So maybe July will be a quieter month.
 
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Yes, we sure do need some RB's - I hope we can find two - one with speed and one a bruiser. Surprising we have not seen more traction there with obvious early playing time, and an excellent class coming together. Landing a few more hosses for the OL might help convince an RB he will have a fighting chance to get past the LOS.

Deac94 said:
Wow. That is humbling. THANK YOU!

Please know that when I post content here my objective is not to create hype around the staff or recruits (my Twitter account on the other hand, probably is focused on creating hype/buzz around the program and I would welcome more followers if you are interested in that). My objective here is to pull together information so that you/we can evaluate together how Clawson’s staff is doing in their first year, a year that I think is critical to the program. Info so that we right away when we get a commitment is made whether it is a really big deal or not. If our collective effort on this thread has worked right, then you would have seen ahead of time that Jake Bargas, Dionte Austin, Steven Claude and Kendall Hinton were important targets that had the potential to significantly impact the quality of the class, and as a result we were all able to celebrate a little harder and exhalt the staff a little more. But to be fair, you should also be able to tell that we have had trouble getting traction at RB and S after some initial targets passed us over.

I do think that a byproduct of following recruiting is that - whether we win, lose or draw - we get more attached to the program overall.

I also got involved here because I thought there was too much hype happening at the outset when the staff was throwing out offers to the entire Rivals 250. I wanted to try to focus the discussion on guys that had realistic offer sheets or were talking about Wake. Because it was the battles for those guys that should be used to evaluate how well the staff did. That is why I have tried not to waste time/space on guys that our staff clearly liked, but where I didn’t think they (we) really had a chance.

So I absolutely plan to keep posting here through national signing day, even though I expect that things will continue to slow down as the available scholarships get reduced even further. I don’t know exactly what 2016 will look like, but your comment and others lead me to think that I want to do something to follow Wake football recruiting. I had not expected to have this much fun. Hey, maybe for next year I could establish some actual #sources!
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WFU1977 said:
Yes, we sure do need some RB's - I hope we can find two - one with speed and one a bruiser. Surprising we have not seen more traction there with obvious early playing time, and an excellent class coming together. Landing a few more hosses for the OL might help convince an RB he will have a fighting chance to get past the LOS.
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Yeah, our RB recruiting has been probably the one disappointment so far. We're down to a point where even our top targets are 2*/UR guys. Hard to complain when everything else has been going so well, but I'm not really sure where the disconnect is there. Of course, super small sample size and all that.
 
RedSoxFaithful said:
Yeah, our RB recruiting has been probably the one disappointment so far. We're down to a point where even our top targets are 2*/UR guys. Hard to complain when everything else has been going so well, but I'm not really sure where the disconnect is there. Of course, super small sample size and all that.
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I consider both Boose and Marshall to be 3-stars because I go by Rivals. Marshall has 2 other ACC offers as well, so he seems pretty legit.
 
Wasn't there a rumor just a few days ago that Baltimore HS coaches believe we are the ultimate landing spot of some 3* tailback?
 
I'm not too worried about RB recruiting. I think that's the position where it's most likely a guy can blow up his senior year, particularly someone who was behind a better player or hadn't quite developed at 16 years old.

Last year, they got a 6-0, 260 FB who enrolled early at Ohio State as a preferred walk-on. He had 11 TDs as a true freshman. They'll find somebody somewhere.

Their leading rusher had 1594 yards as a rSO. He was a late 2* verbal from outside of Miami. 70 on 247. Bowling Green was his only offer.
http://247sports.com/Player/Travis-Greene-8807
 
I wouldn't say I'm worried, and I certainly trust Claw at this point. I was just commenting on our RB recruits relative to other positions.
 
Deac94 said:
I consider both Boose and Marshall to be 3-stars because I go by Rivals. Marshall has 2 other ACC offers as well, so he seems pretty legit.
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Marshall's upside is ridiculous, would pick Marshall of the two. I would love both.
 
PhDeac said:
I'm not too worried about RB recruiting. I think that's the position where it's most likely a guy can blow up his senior year, particularly someone who was behind a better player or hadn't quite developed at 16 years old.

Last year, they got a 6-0, 260 FB who enrolled early at Ohio State as a preferred walk-on. He had 11 TDs as a true freshman. They'll find somebody somewhere.

Their leading rusher had 1594 yards as a rSO. He was a late 2* verbal from outside of Miami. 70 on 247. Bowling Green was his only offer.
http://247sports.com/Player/Travis-Greene-8807
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With the elimination of the FB position, we have 7 runner on the roster for the fall. Wortham, Reynolds, Armstrong, Gibson, Ward, Garside, and Argenzio. With Garside and Orville as the only seniors, we have enough bodies. We may lack in quality but we need not panic for someone who won't see the field for 15 months.
 
DEACS76 said:
With the elimination of the FB position, we have 7 runner on the roster for the fall. Wortham, Reynolds, Armstrong, Gibson, Ward, Garside, and Argenzio. With Garside and Orville as the only seniors, we have enough bodies. We may lack in quality but we need not panic for someone who won't see the field for 15 months.
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Are you leaving out the true freshmen? Aren't there two?
 
I think that Brentavious Glanton's Twitter account is going to buckle under the weight of all of the stuff from GT fans that he is retweeting today.
 
Deac94 said:
Are you leaving out the true freshmen? Aren't there two?
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Yeah, but I don't want to have to count on freshman. Recruiting is more like the NHL draft than the NFL draft at Wake, where few true freshman have stepped on the field and have been difference makers. Can any be named?
 
DEACS76 said:
Yeah, but I don't want to have to count on freshman. Recruiting is more like the NHL draft than the NFL draft at Wake, where few true freshman have stepped on the field and have been difference makers. Can any be named?
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I would expect at least 5 true freshmen to be solid contributors for us this season.
 
You must not have been at the Spring Game. We need RB's.

DEACS76 said:
With the elimination of the FB position, we have 7 runner on the roster for the fall. Wortham, Reynolds, Armstrong, Gibson, Ward, Garside, and Argenzio. With Garside and Orville as the only seniors, we have enough bodies. We may lack in quality but we need not panic for someone who won't see the field for 15 months.
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2015 FB Recruiting: 4* CB Dionte Austin Commits, 1st Post Updated

CheesePritchard said:
Barclay
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Best offensive player under Grobe.

Plack started as a true frosh as well.

We've had several impact true frosh. Until recently, most every true frosh who played made an impact.
 
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I've got to say Kinal was one too. 77, a good recruit won't be here til '15. We have to find somebody already in the ranks and we have 7 to choose from. 9 is you count the new guys. But none will work if we can not fix the OL. Look at teams like Wisconsin and Iowa. Their offense succeed because of their OL and the call plays according to what the OL does best. Harbaugh did this at Stanford. He built a B1G OL and went from there. Our OL is not quick off the ball. They "catch and shove", and it was a disaster.
 
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