(11-10-2011 01:44 PM)Racinejake Wrote: Good, free article from BCL on some of the 2013 recruits who will be in attendance this weekend.
"A few official visitors are confirmed, but UC coaches are also looking towards the Class of 2013. To that end WR Shelton Gibson, LB Zach Higginbotham, LB Cameron Kohl, WR Dorien Hudson, QB Austin Ernst, and others are confirmed."
I have a hard time believing UC is seriously recruiting Higginbotham. He played for Elder as a freshman and he was incredibly slow. They even moved him from Linebacker to Defensive End halfway through the season because he couldn't move well enough. No way athletically he can play at this level.
Quote:KeithRIVALS Keith Niebuhr
2013 Brentwood Academy (TN) ATH Jalen Ramsey has added an offer from #Cincinnati today. That's No. 10. #Bearcats working Volunteer State
Ryne Rankin the Linebacker out of East River High School in Orlando has my vote. Class of 2013 with 189 tackles? Thats sick. Found his hudl highlight and its full of big hits and speed!!!
Ryne Rankin hudl http://www.hudl.com/athlete/315473/ryne-rankin
AND is nominated for defensive player of the year in orlando....as a JUNIOR
over the years ORLANDO has produced many TOP D1 Prospects and Rankin is def one!
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2011 07:31 PM by otownbearcat.)
Don't know what happened to my original post but this guy visited as well:
Quote:Wiltfong247 Steve Wiltfong
Brownsburg (Ind.) High 2013 ATH Chase Dutra visited Cincinnati on Saturday for the Bearcats victory over UConn. bit.ly/ryJotB
Michigan State lock. Waste of time on UC's part to recruit him IMO. For some reason certain people at Moeller are pushing all their players to Michigan State.
(12-05-2011 07:29 PM)otownbearcat Wrote: Ryne Rankin the Linebacker out of East River High School in Orlando has my vote. Class of 2013 with 189 tackles? Thats sick. Found his hudl highlight and its full of big hits and speed!!!
Ryne Rankin hudl http://www.hudl.com/athlete/315473/ryne-rankin
AND is nominated for defensive player of the year in orlando....as a JUNIOR
over the years ORLANDO has produced many TOP D1 Prospects and Rankin is def one!
Looks like UC hitting Florida hard again - here's a pair of teammates (slot back John Armstrong and DE Ramar Dennis) we just offered:
Quote:Olympia slot back John Armstrong receives first offer from Cincinnati
December 13, 2011| By Chris Hays | Orlando Sentinel
John Armstrong has a big heart. Trouble is, most people do not know how big, but if college scouts put “size of heart” on a football combine list of measurements, the kid would have far more college scholarship offers.
“People say I’m small,” said the 5-foot-7 (and-a-half, don’t forget the half), 170-pound 2013 slot back at Orlando Olympia High. “But you can’t judge a big heart and I have a big heart. But I can’t do much about the size. I just go out there and play the game I love.”
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And he plays it well, which makes it hard to overlook the Titans’ mighty mite.
Armstrong, who ran for 1,101 yards and 14 touchdowns and caught 60 passes for 653 yards and four touchdowns this season, received his first college scholarship offer on Sunday from Cincinnati.
“I got like goose bumps, or whatever. It just felt good,” said Armstrong, whose teammate and best friend DE Ramar Dennis was also offered by the Bearcats this past weekend.
Armstrong comes from a very athletic gene pool.
His twin sister Johnae runs track at Olympia; his cousin Alton “Pig” Howard played football at Orlando Edgewater and just committed to Tennessee; his cousin Quincy McDuffie, Alton’s brother, is a junior receiver at UCF; his cousin Joe Gallagher is a fellow slot back and teammate at Olympia, cousin Laquan Howard, another brother of Alton and Quincy, is a sophomore football player at Edgewater and his uncle Deion Rainey Jr., is a junior football player at Edgewater.
Whew, and defenders thought it was hard to keep up with Armstrong on the field. Just imagine trying to remember all the names at a family reunion.
With Pig having just gone through a very eventful recruiting period with more than 20 suitors, Armstrong was able to sit back and learn a little bit about the process, and also pick up advice from his older cousin.
“I’ve talked to him about it and he said there is a lot of stress deciding where to go,” Armstrong said. “He chose Tennessee because it felt like home to him. He was comfortable there. He just told me to make sure it feels like home and not a strange place.”
Other places he has envisioned perhaps playing college football are Florida, the school he favored growing up, Florida State and “a couple of others,” he said.
One of those others is Clemson. That’s where C.J. Spiller played in college before he went on to the NFL.
“C.J. Spiller inspired me. He’s my idol so that’s an option,” Armstrong said of Clemson. “It’s just the way he runs the ball, all over the field, and he was a receiver out of the backfield a lot in college, and now he’s in the NFL.”
Olympia, which won its first-ever playoff game this season, will be hoping to build on the 7-4 year the Titans had. They do lose some very productive talent in seniors like LB-FB Ryan Bishop, DB Chris Blackwell, TE-DE Alex Stout, DB Chris Simmons, OL-DL J.T. Hamilton, K-P Aleem Sunanon and WR Khareem Calderon and some others, but the nucleus will be back and looking to make it at least another round deep in the playoffs.
“We can be better,” Armstrong said. “All we need is three more offensive lineman … if we can get those then I think we are good.”
More on the two offers (gotta love the title of the article):
Quote:The pipeline to Cincinnati is through Central Florida
Olympia running back John Armstrong
By Tiffany Greene, BHSN
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:15 PM
ORLANDO --
The University of Cincinnati is sticking to a familiar formula when searching for talent. You either have to be small and quick or tall and rangy. The two latest offers the Bearcats extended fit those profiles.
John Armstrong is the first 1,000 yard rusher in Olympia school history. He’s 5-foot-7 but is a shifty running back with quick feet. That rushing milestone is a big deal considering the NFL’s fastest player and leading rusher from a season ago, graduated from the same school. Yes, we’re talking about Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson. Armstrong added to his number by being the teams leading receiver this year.
Armstrong, who’s only a junior, received his first scholarship offer on Sunday.
The Bearcats looked up Armstrong’s best friend, Ramar Dennis as well. The defensive end is a rangy 6-2, 230 pounds, again fitting Cincy’s mold, was offered as well on Sunday. Dennis registered 106 tackles, 8 sacks and 3 fumble recoveries.
Dennis has a connection to Cincinnati because his uncle played for the Bearcats.
Seabreeze’s Trent Norvell and Lake Brantley’s Ti’on Green are already committed to Cincinnati for the Class of 2012.
(12-19-2011 05:53 PM)JohnJenks Wrote: His uncle is George Murray
If only Uncle George had held on to that pass in the end zone vs. tO$U
I'm probably the minority that figures things under Minter wouldn't have changed much. UC beat a top-5 Wisconsin team in 1999, and the rest of the season went nowhere.
It might have put a quick halt to the Ohio State series though. I would have actually welcomed that, especially when all games going forward are taking place in Columbus.
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