(02-05-2013 08:29 AM)MU ATO Wrote:  

(02-04-2013 01:59 PM)TTT Wrote:  DT/DE commits:



3-star DE/DT Jonathan Wilson, 6'7 275 Has offers from USM, Mississippi State, and La-Lafayette.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/southernmiss/foo...yer-138638




3-star DT Rod Crayton, 6'1 290 lb. Ranked as #21 best player in the state of Alabama and ranked the #36 best DT in the nation. Has offers from USM, Ark, LSU, Michigan, Ole Miss, MS State, Penn State, Tenn, and Vandy.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/southernmiss/foo...yer-128755



3-star DE/DT Dylan Bradley, 6-1 255lb. Ranked as #10 player in the state of MS and #55 ranked DT in the nation. Has offers from USM, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Ark State and Memphis.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/southernmiss/foo...yer-132064



3-star DT Christopher Robinson, 6-2 280lb. Ranked #32 player in the state of Louisiana and the #51 DT in the nation. Has offers from USM, Baylor, Mississippi State, La Tech and La-Lafayette.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/southernmiss/foo...yer-126144



2-star DT Jerry Harris, 6-3 295lb. Has offers from USM, Mississippi State, Colorado St., and Troy.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/southernmiss/foo...yer-141677


That's 3 top-100 DT's committed to USM!!!! #36, #51, and #55.

SMTTT!

Youre gonna need them to stop our stable of RBs and put pressure on Cato.

There's a couple of streaks we need to end this year.. UAB's winnning streak over us and Marshall's back to back wins.

Kind of strange DT's this good are still available this late. Makes me wonder about grades.

(02-05-2013 09:23 AM)T_Won1 Wrote:  Kind of strange DT's this good are still available this late. Makes me wonder about grades.

Crayton lives with his grandparents and wants to play as close to them as possible, but out of the state of Alabama. He hates his hometown. Plus, he is missing a small portion of one of his feet because of a lawnmower accident as a kid.

He hasn't qualified yet, but is very close.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/...dom_1.html

The good thing about DTs is, if they're not good enough to be DTs at the FBS level, you can convert them to OLs. Howard Schnellenberger used to do that with much success.

Saying that, this is a great position to have such depth. If they can all get their bench presses into the 400s, we won't be run upon for a while. Need to develop some speed on the edge now.

(02-05-2013 09:43 AM)USM@FTL Wrote:  The good thing about DTs is, if they're not good enough to be DTs at the FBS level, you can convert them to OLs. Howard Schnellenberger used to do that with much success.

Saying that, this is a great position to have such depth. If they can all get their bench presses into the 400s, we won't be run upon for a while. Need to develop some speed on the edge now.

It's my understanding that Crayton already benches that much. Also we still have a shot to land Gerald Sterling who is commited to Washington St.

Thats gunna be one mean D-line.

(02-05-2013 08:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thats gunna be one mean D-line.

I certainly hope so!

I'm just glad to see we got some DB"s that are over the 6'0 number now...

7:30 a.m. Jomez Applewhite 6'1 175 DB
8:16 a.m. Evan Osborne 6'3 198 DB

Hopefully they've got the football talent for on the field.

Quote:lso we still have a shot to land Gerald Sterling who is commited to Washington St.

Where'd you hear that one? I didn't know about that one.

All but Wilson signed today. Wilson will not qualify. Great job by our coaches. Gonna be a nasty dline in the middle.

(02-06-2013 10:28 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  I'm just glad to see we got some DB"s that are over the 6'0 number now...

7:30 a.m. Jomez Applewhite 6'1 175 DB
8:16 a.m. Evan Osborne 6'3 198 DB

Hopefully they've got the football talent for on the field.

Quote:lso we still have a shot to land Gerald Sterling who is commited to Washington St.

Where'd you hear that one? I didn't know about that one.

So story was that he had secretly switched his commitment when he visited a few weeks back, but then over the past few days became confused on what to do. I think both staff were working him very hard. In the end he stuck with WSU, but unless he has family up there I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in a few years...that's a long ways away for an 18 year old.