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Wake Forest Football Recruiting

I've watched Donovan Greene play both football and basketball over several years. His biggest assets that I saw were his strength and athletic ability more than speed. That being said, he does have significant speed even when compared to D1 opponents. He has insane leaping ability, I've witnessed him drop step in the lane and murder the rim multiple times with little effort as well as out leap everybody on the football field with little effort. I witnessed him dunk on an alley-oop from his brother in a middle school game (against my son) which is very rare in this area. Also, Mt.Airy has a sophomore quarterback that is probably the best throwing quarterback in the league this year so he is getting some good deep passes again this year. On a side note, I've talked to Mt.Airy coaches from both sports as recently as last month who said Donovan is not risking injury by playing basketball this year. That may have changed, but I think it's a little odd?
 
73deac said:
I've watched Donovan Greene play both football and basketball over several years. His biggest assets that I saw were his strength and athletic ability more than speed. That being said, he does have significant speed even when compared to D1 opponents. He has insane leaping ability, I've witnessed him drop step in the lane and murder the rim multiple times with little effort as well as out leap everybody on the football field with little effort. I witnessed him dunk on an alley-oop from his brother in a middle school game (against my son) which is very rare in this area. Also, Mt.Airy has a sophomore quarterback that is probably the best throwing quarterback in the league this year so he is getting some good deep passes again this year. On a side note, I've talked to Mt.Airy coaches from both sports as recently as last month who said Donovan is not risking injury by playing basketball this year. That may have changed, but I think it's a little odd?
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I agree with your assessment of Greene. My best friend owns WBRF 98.1(the flagship FM station for WFU sports)and WSYD/WPAQ (AM stations which covers MA athletics). He talked to two people very close to MA high school sports and was told that Greene is still bound for WFU. I’m trying to confirm he will enroll early. Also, he was told the basketball tryouts haven’t been held yet. Thus, it appears that the MaxPreps information is erroneous.
 
MA has a hell of a kicker as well every kick off against us South Stokes went through the endzone and the kid had to kick it almost a dozen times
 
That tweet from the locker room had almost 4000 views less than 30 min after the game.

Plenty of people saw a first time starter outplay the #2 QB prospect.
 
Clawson got some good post game air time on ESPN and Fox radio. The minor benefit from the Thursday night game.
 
I've watched the game winner several times. Bachman's block was a legit great block, but I think Freudenthal would have scored anyway. He was wide open and turned it up field immediately. If Newman hadn't waited for the exact second and risked the hit, that safety would have had a good angle and it may have been short of the first down.
 
Our receiver recruits should find comfort in seeing that Dortch will need to be replaced in the slot either next year or in 2020, our receivers are well coached, we have two talented young QBs, and we need a fast deep threat to get behind the defense.
 
PhDeac said:
I've watched the game winner several times. Bachman's block was a legit great block, but I think Freudenthal would have scored anyway. He was wide open and turned it up field immediately. If Newman hadn't waited for the exact second and risked the hit, that safety would have had a good angle and it may have been short of the first down.
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Big Cam Newton sized QBs don't wince.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/newman-helps-wake-upset-no-22-nc-state-27-23-110818

. . .and “We were in the huddle, and we said, ‘We’ve just got to go,'” Freudenthal said.
 
Newman in the headline but FinLLey is the picture. Disappointing.
 
So Miami just offered CJ Elmonus, an OT commit to us. He said Wake is still on top but he'll check all his options before signing in December.

Elmonus made a HUGE jump in 247's rankings from almost being a 2 star to almost being a 4 star (top-400 guy now). His 247-composite ranking is still in the 1100's though.

ETA: At the end of June, he was our lowest rated commit. Now 247 (247 exclusive rankings, not composite) have him as our third highest ranked commit, behind Nolan and Greene, right in front of Shamar McCollum. Weirdly large jump for him.
 
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CharlotteDeac1 said:
So Miami just offered CJ Elmonus, an OT commit to us. He said Wake is still on top but he'll check all his options before signing in December.

Elmonus made a HUGE jump in 247's rankings from almost being a 2 star to almost being a 4 star (top-400 guy now). His 247-composite ranking is still in the 1100's though.

ETA: At the end of June, he was our lowest rated commit. Now 247 (247 exclusive rankings, not composite) have him as our third highest ranked commit, behind Nolan and Greene, right in front of Shamar McCollum. Weirdly large jump for him.
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Need to keep our guys, we have a good class right now, want them all on campus next fall.
 
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