Starting a new thread to cover the 2nd signing period. The first signing period is over and that cake is baked.

I believe there will be three weekends of official visits, Jan 13, 20, and 27 with the 2nd signing period beginning Feb 7.

As indicated by CC, believe EMU could sign up to 4 additional recruits. This does not include two players in school now who presumably will be given scholarships after the academic year is over.

Couple of questions come to mind:

1). What positions are the staff attempting to fill? Remember, priority for Dec 20 - 22 is for recruits who will start school next week (that was 1/2 of this class). A May or June JUCO grad can sign in Feb. Sometimes the school might want to see first semester grades. Did the player pass his fall math class needed to graduate from his community college? Think we saw that in MBB with LWH who did not complete his JUCO degree during that summer and had to complete it during fall semester.

2). Are recruits who did not sign last week (e.g., Whitmer, Gaddie, etc.) completely off the board or are they still possible. Gaddie decommitted. Whitmer has been silent. Presumably their Twitter accounts should show some clues in the weeks ahead.

3). Always a chance the staff wanted to hold off on a recruit until his first semester grades are in. Starting last year (2016) the NCAA academic requirements were raised. Signing a recruit who doesn't qualify essentially is a wasted scholarship (can, however, be given out during summer to another player or at mid-year).

4). Are we holding a scholarship or two for recruits looking for a P5 offer (as a Plan B recruit) who might 'fall' to us? Might we see a few of these types visit late. This becomes the game of musical chairs where a recruit is hoping for a 'chair' with a P5 school and also a G5 school, if needed. This should go better than in the past. A B1G school can say to a recruit, for example: We have say 22 scholarships and gave out 19. We may give one more at your position. You are one of a couple recruits we are considering for that scholarship.

I'm thinking another OL, a LB, and an RB. All HS kids that will red shirt next season.

Lb tight end wr all high school

(12-27-2017 08:45 AM)emu79 Wrote:  Lb tight end wr all high school

I think we can assume will be a Feb. signee:

Logan Giordano, WR, Hollywood, FL (07/24).

I believe he will start school next week and get a 2018/9 scholarship in February.

CC has indicated that he expects 8 or 9 players to start EMU next week as mid-years but it seems we don't have scholarships for all.

The highest priority for giving out scholarships are usually mid-year JUCOs who are high priority mid-year get in school early candidates to do spring ball, summer conditioning and hopefully join the 2-deeps in August.

Mid-year h.s. kids have the option of starting early or waiting for summer as most will redshirt in 2018. QB Jackson is an exception. He is supposed to start school next week and do spring ball, etc. and be a candidate for the open QB position come summer. He would be the exception to the rule. (P5 schools might try to get a 5 star recruit in early as they would expect him to contribute as a true frosh, but we rarely have a 3 or 4 star h.s. recruit who could start mid-year. After all how many kids graduate from high school in December???? And our semester starts so early in January.).

It will be interesting to see if we take a transfer QB

https://247sports.com/Article/College-fo...-112556348

Dear Luckeyone,
If, Grissom is in the mix for spring ball, Eastern will have five quarterbacks vying for the starting role. If, Eastern would bring in a grad transfer that would make six. Would that cause some of the others that are on our roster to transfer? If, just a regular transfer who would have to sit out a year, you would still have the possibility of what I have said earlier, and this is all without mentioning the recruit that we just signed from Cass Tech.

(12-28-2017 09:52 AM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear Luckeyone,
If, Grissom is in the mix for spring ball, Eastern will have five quarterbacks vying for the starting role. If, Eastern would bring in a grad transfer that would make six. Would that cause some of the others that are on our roster to transfer? If, just a regular transfer who would have to sit out a year, you would still have the possibility of what I have said earlier, and this is all without mentioning the recruit that we just signed from Cass Tech.

I don't think Grissom is in the mix for spring ball.

(12-28-2017 10:37 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(12-28-2017 09:52 AM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear Luckeyone,
If, Grissom is in the mix for spring ball, Eastern will have five quarterbacks vying for the starting role. If, Eastern would bring in a grad transfer that would make six. Would that cause some of the others that are on our roster to transfer? If, just a regular transfer who would have to sit out a year, you would still have the possibility of what I have said earlier, and this is all without mentioning the recruit that we just signed from Cass Tech.

I don't think Grissom is in the mix for spring ball.

Why not if he spent the Fall Semester at EMU he should qualify academically. I thought we would put him on scholie beginning January 2018 which means he could play spring ball.

Is he academically qualified? I'm guessing not.

(12-27-2017 07:02 PM)Luckeyone Wrote:  It will be interesting to see if we take a transfer QB

https://247sports.com/Article/College-fo...-112556348

The more the merrier.........we need to find a QB! If that forces some to leave, they obviously weren't good enough.

(12-27-2017 07:02 PM)Luckeyone Wrote:  It will be interesting to see if we take a transfer QB

https://247sports.com/Article/College-fo...-112556348

They will.

(12-28-2017 03:37 PM)EagleHawk Wrote:  

(12-27-2017 07:02 PM)Luckeyone Wrote:  It will be interesting to see if we take a transfer QB

https://247sports.com/Article/College-fo...-112556348

They will.

I think they'll only be interested in a transfer if he is legitimately a candidate to be the starter. No sense in taking an overrated kid just because he once held the clipboard at a big-name university.

(12-28-2017 03:37 PM)EagleHawk Wrote:  

(12-27-2017 07:02 PM)Luckeyone Wrote:  It will be interesting to see if we take a transfer QB

https://247sports.com/Article/College-fo...-112556348

They will.

^^^^^^

http://www.emueagles.com/news/2018/1/3/f...nsfer.aspx

Iowa twitter speaks well of him. Sounds like a talented kid who lost out on the job to another talented kid. He should have a good chance at winning the starting job.

(01-03-2018 03:22 PM)EagleSam Wrote:  Iowa twitter speaks well of him. Sounds like a talented kid who lost out on the job to another talented kid. He should have a good chance at winning the starting job.

EMU's version of Shane Morris?

(01-03-2018 03:51 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 03:22 PM)EagleSam Wrote:  Iowa twitter speaks well of him. Sounds like a talented kid who lost out on the job to another talented kid. He should have a good chance at winning the starting job.

EMU's version of Shane Morris?

Who throws less picks hopefully. Not hard to accomplish after their bowl game.


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<bump> This can be a post-December signing period recruiting thread.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/high-...010559001/

Top 10 MI h.s. kids unsigned.

Think we can scratch a QB recruit. Right. Lol.

(01-07-2018 01:02 PM)emu steve Wrote:  https://www.freep.com/story/sports/high-...010559001/

Top 10 MI h.s. kids unsigned.

Think we can scratch a QB recruit. Right. Lol.

At least we made offers to a few on the list. Kid from Ypsi would be great, but Toledo the leader.....smh.