All is good with me. Couldn’t be better. Life has just gotten a good deal more hectic, but all good stuff.
On the 2018 recruiting front, I’m obviously very interested in the official visit from DT Shamar Jones (Johnstown, PA) this weekend. I’ve mentioned him before on this thread. He’s only slightly undersized (officially 6’0.5 / 264) with really good highlights and camp performances. Would be a very similar prospect to Sulaiman Kamara and Tyler Williams. Wake is supposedly in a head-to-head with Indiana and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jones make his decision in October.
Jones is a candidate for one of what is (for right now) thought to be two remaining scholarships. So I don’t expect too much recruiting news on the 2018 front, and I think the 2019 process is still early. Following that class will be fun because it will be bigger.
Going forward I’m not sure how much there will be for me to post on recruiting. The biggest reason is that most of the recruiting info is now on Les’ site and I don’t want to post premium info off of his site. Part of that is his switch to Scout and then with the 247 merger that means he has most of the info under his umbrella. But Wake has also continued the trend of taking under-the-radar types (zero or one P5 offer). Doesn’t bother me as fan really because I trust the staff and we’ve started to see some of these type of recruits from previous cycles contributing on the field. But it made it frustrating to spend time following – and writing about - higher profile type recruits that didn’t pan out.
However, if there is a void in recruiting info for Wake fans like there was a few years ago or I see something that Les has missed I’ll be over here to post about it. For sure.
On the field I am thrilled as anyone with the play of the team. Wolford exceeded my expectations so far. It was great watching the offense move the ball against Utah State. I think we will need more guys to step up other than Dortch/Hines/Serigne (especially when Hines gets few snaps in some games), so the performance by Scotty against App State was important and I see him as a real key to the season.
I’ve been surprised by the defensive staff’s reliance on the starting 11 so far. Lots of guys played more than 80 snaps against App. Bates (107), Glenn (102), Henderson (83), Bassey (99), Kemp (98), Ejiofor (91), Yarbary (88), Jaboree (99). Of the backups, only Strnad (30), Taylor (33) and Calhoun (39) played 30% or more of the defensive snaps (maybe fewer if you factor in that some of those snaps may have come on special teams). That leads me to worry about how our defense would perform if/when we start to see more injuries.
I haven’t been able to do my game write-ups. Just too busy. Truth be told, I haven’t even be able to rewatch any of the games so far this season. But I definitely hope to post a full breakdown of at least one game this season. Maybe more. We’ll see.
Looking forward to a great day with a bunch of great fans today…BE LOUD FOLKS…GO DEACS!!!!!!!