malves21
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UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
ANOTHER VERBAL COMMITMENT - UMass got another verbal commitment at the expense of one of its Mid-American Conference rivals. Tajae Sharpe, a wide receiver from Piscatway, N.J., committed to the Minutemen after visiting UMass this weekend. The 6-foot-3, 180-pounder had previously committed to Kent State.
Sharpe holds offers from Kent State, Pittsburgh, Temple, Towson and Villanova.
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2012 10:38 AM by malves21.)
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
Sweet! :sly:
NIU doesn't recruit NJ, MD, PA, etc.
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2012 01:57 PM by Howl-n-Prowl.)
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
He also had an offer from Akron. Good pickup.
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01-23-2012 01:51 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-23-2012 10:35 AM)malves21 Wrote: ANOTHER VERBAL COMMITMENT - UMass got another verbal commitment at the expense of one of its Mid-American Conference rivals. Tajae Sharpe, a wide receiver from Piscatway, N.J., committed to the Minutemen after visiting UMass this weekend. The 6-foot-3, 180-pounder had previously committed to Kent State.
Sharpe holds offers from Kent State, Pittsburgh, Temple, Towson and Villanova.
I suspect UMass will recruit well going forward.
It is an excellent school, will play an attractive schedule, and play games in the Patriots stadium.
Also, apparently wants to play a wide open offense.
I assume they will recruit well in New England and along the East Coast.
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01-23-2012 02:22 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
Sweet? Great way to get started in the conference targeting commits to other schools instead of getting your own.
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01-23-2012 05:48 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
Keep it up UMass...you guys will be eating lunch alone at all the MAC meetings...
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01-23-2012 06:00 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-23-2012 05:48 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote: Sweet? Great way to get started in the conference targeting commits to other schools instead of getting your own.
ummm.. It's college football. That's how it works. It's not hard to change the mind of an 18 year old kid
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01-23-2012 08:07 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
Mac schools are chasing a lot of the same kids.
Umass is in the game! Good.
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01-24-2012 07:12 AM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
UMass didn't really have an opportunity to introduce itself to any of these kids until the past few weeks, so our coaches aren't crossing any players off the list even if they've verbally committed elsewhere. If we're still raiding our neighbors' cupboards next year, then we're probably just jerks. Unfortunately, the outgoing coaches didn't think they'd be retained so they left the cupboard empty. Plus the previous year LOI passed before we made our FBS announcement, so we didn't get any recruits from that. Basically, our entire recruiting season for our first ever FBS season will be the 6 weeks between the hiring of Molnar and national letter of intent day on Feb 1. I won't be shocked if we're at or near the back of the MAC when the websites start comparing recruiting classes, even with the handful of players we got to de-commit from elsewhere.
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01-24-2012 12:47 PM |
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malves21
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01-24-2012 02:25 PM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-24-2012 02:25 PM)malves21 Wrote: (01-24-2012 12:47 PM)LastMinuteman Wrote: UMass didn't really have an opportunity to introduce itself to any of these kids until the past few weeks, so our coaches aren't crossing any players off the list even if they've verbally committed elsewhere. If we're still raiding our neighbors' cupboards next year, then we're probably just jerks. Unfortunately, the outgoing coaches didn't think they'd be retained so they left the cupboard empty. Plus the previous year LOI passed before we made our FBS announcement, so we didn't get any recruits from that. Basically, our entire recruiting season for our first ever FBS season will be the 6 weeks between the hiring of Molnar and national letter of intent day on Feb 1. I won't be shocked if we're at or near the back of the MAC when the websites start comparing recruiting classes, even with the handful of players we got to de-commit from elsewhere.
Who cares if we are raiding other schools, its done throughout college football all the time. The SEC, PAC 10, ACC do it to each other all the time.. STOP
Well, I think you'll find this board has a lot of
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-24-2012 02:25 PM)malves21 Wrote: (01-24-2012 12:47 PM)LastMinuteman Wrote: UMass didn't really have an opportunity to introduce itself to any of these kids until the past few weeks, so our coaches aren't crossing any players off the list even if they've verbally committed elsewhere. If we're still raiding our neighbors' cupboards next year, then we're probably just jerks. Unfortunately, the outgoing coaches didn't think they'd be retained so they left the cupboard empty. Plus the previous year LOI passed before we made our FBS announcement, so we didn't get any recruits from that. Basically, our entire recruiting season for our first ever FBS season will be the 6 weeks between the hiring of Molnar and national letter of intent day on Feb 1. I won't be shocked if we're at or near the back of the MAC when the websites start comparing recruiting classes, even with the handful of players we got to de-commit from elsewhere.
Who cares if we are raiding other schools, its done throughout college football all the time. The SEC, PAC 10, ACC do it to each other all the time.. STOP
You should not worry about, everyone does it. We do our share of it and given the chance on someone we would like, we will do it again. A verbal is just that, a stinking verbal at a point in time.
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-23-2012 05:48 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote: Sweet? Great way to get started in the conference targeting commits to other schools instead of getting your own.
So should we go ahead and give back the Miami QB recruit we swooped up recently? Relax, these things happen. Congrats to the UMass coaching staff.
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01-24-2012 07:21 PM |
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01-25-2012 08:48 AM |
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-25-2012 08:48 AM)malves21 Wrote: Recruiting 2012--Two UMass commits: Robinson and Krizanovic
http://umass74.blogspot.com/
Question for the Minutemen fans, I remember when UMASS won their last FCS title that a good sized contingent of Minutemen were from California. Do you anticipate that your current staff will continue to recruit in California (especially at the skilled positions) or scale back on the West COast and try to get those types of players from Florida and the southeast?
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01-26-2012 12:14 PM |
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LastMinuteman
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RE: UMass got verbal commitment at the expense of one of its MAC rivals
(01-26-2012 12:14 PM)onlinepole Wrote: Question for the Minutemen fans, I remember when UMASS won their last FCS title that a good sized contingent of Minutemen were from California. Do you anticipate that your current staff will continue to recruit in California (especially at the skilled positions) or scale back on the West COast and try to get those types of players from Florida and the southeast?
That's not really the case, we don't recruit California much. We mainly go there looking for pro style quarterbacks, particularly in the JUCO system, and then every once in awhile the target QB or his JUCO coach points us towards a player at another position. Our last 2 teams to make it to the FCS Championship only had 1 or 2 Californians on them, but they tend to stand out because they're often the starting QB. I reckon we'll try to keep the positive relationships we've built with the CA JUCOs, but I don't think we have a plan to expand our operations there, excluding of course when we hire a coach who also happens to have great recruiting ties to that area. Short of that, Coach Molnar has publicly stated that he wants this to be a New England/Northeast team.
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