Definitely need a new thread now...

First commit is DE from Addison,TX Justin Moore
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college...mmits-rice

(04-04-2018 09:07 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  Definitely need a new thread now...

First commit is DE from Addison,TX Justin Moore
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college...mmits-rice

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Justin...tInterests

Well, Luke Armstrong should be a valuable addition to his college’s Beer-Bike team, given his lineage.

Will there be blood tests?

(04-05-2018 11:44 AM)sts60 Wrote:  Well, Luke Armstrong should be a valuable addition to his college’s Beer-Bike team, given his lineage.

Unfortunately not. Coach Bloom banned the team from participating in Beer Bike.

Couple of kids in this recruiting class are having a pretty successful track and field season:

https://twitter.com/IPTUS_TFXC/status/98...8636279808

https://twitter.com/JesuitAthletics/stat...3494188032

Some junior day visitors (I'll try to add more as I find them):

3* DE Tony Bradford (Houston, TX)...offers from Arizona, Wyoming, UTSA
NR K/P Jack Martin (Mobile, AL)
NR K/P Zach Hoban (West Orange, NJ)
3* DT Christian Njoku (Bellaire, TX)...offers from Louisville, Mass, UTSA
3* ILB Chance Cover (Fort Worth, TX)...offer from Texas State
NR ILB Maki Carabin (San Antonio, TX)
3* TE Asher Alberding (Houston, TX)...offers from UNT, Yale, ULM
NR DE Malik Wooley (Arlington, TX)
NR HB Jake Tuttle (Owasso, OK)
3* CB Markel Reed (Temple, TX)...offers from Baylor, Arkansas, Texas Tech
NR QB Blaise Bentsen (Sherman, TX)
3* TE Keshon Williams (Longview, TX)...offers from Texas State, ULM
Trae King (don't know too much about him)
NR HB Campbell Speights (McAllen, TX)...offer from Tulane, interest from Stanford, Vandy
NR QB AJ Jergensen (Arvada, CO)
NR OL Nicholas Wagman (Potomac, MD)...interest from Princeton, Penn, Columbia

Couple additional names:

NR ATH Jermaine Davis (Aurora, CO)
NR ATH Drake Cortez (Brighton, CO)
NR ILB Da'zhaun Reid (Aurora, CO)

Speights’ brother is at Stanford now.

We also offered 2019 QB Zach Calzada, who has offers from SMU and Brown among others.

I see a lot of Colorado kids being offered. It would be great if it were an indication that a MWC invite is on the horizon. Not probable, but fun to speculate.

(04-08-2018 03:38 PM)Pan95 Wrote:  I see a lot of Colorado kids being offered. It would be great if it were an indication that a MWC invite is on the horizon. Not probable, but fun to speculate.

It looks like a big group from Colorado came down for Junior Day together. Have we offered everyone at junior day? Not much info on most of those kids, but it looks like Mike Kershaw is their point of contact on the Rice side.

(04-08-2018 03:55 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 03:38 PM)Pan95 Wrote:  I see a lot of Colorado kids being offered. It would be great if it were an indication that a MWC invite is on the horizon. Not probable, but fun to speculate.

It looks like a big group from Colorado came down for Junior Day together. Have we offered everyone at junior day? Not much info on most of those kids, but it looks like Mike Kershaw is their point of contact on the Rice side.

Not everyone who gets invited to junior day gets offered.

Sometimes a HS coach will just bring 8-10 guys on a “college road trip” with players of different skill levels and schools of different flavors.

Junior days are basically collective unofficial visits, making them good opportunities to invite a ton of kids (a lot who you haven't offered) while not exhausting your allocated # of officials.

It looks like we have a real coordinated visit for these players. Nice to see tweets from all of them.

(04-08-2018 04:31 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  It looks like we have a real coordinated visit for these players. Nice to see tweets from all of them.

For sure... this one from a mom:
Alandra Speights@SP8SMOM - We have been to ALOT of jr days but this one felt different! The excitment was incredible! @RiceOwlsFB is moving in a positive direction!

FYI, her son is @C_sp8s5 Campbell Speights

Can one of the moderators split this off into a “2nd recruiting class” thread?

Here's what our target list is roughly looking like (only prospects with 247 profiles):

3* QB Peyton Thompson (Offered, visited…Oklahoma)
3* QB Zach Calzada (Offered…Georgia)
3* QB Jacob Clark (Offered, Texas)
3* QB Paul Piferi (California)
3* QB Austin Kirksey (Visited…Georgia)
NR QB Will Bowers (Offered, visited…Texas)
NR HB Jake Tuttle (Visited…Oklahoma)
NR HB Campbell Speights (Visited…Texas)
3* WR Rashee Rice (Offered…Texas)
3* WR Nazir Burnett (Offered…Pennsylvania)
3* WR Khatib Lyles (Texas)
3* WR DK Blaylock (Texas)
3* WR Shamar Johnson (Offered…Texas)
NR WR Michael Monios (Visited…Connecticut)
3* TE Keshon Williams (Offered, visited…Texas)
3* TE Ben Castellanos (Virginia)
3* TE Asher Alberding (Visited…Texas)
NR TE Jack Bradley (Offered, visited…Texas)
NR TE Luke Weerts (Offered…Illinois)
3* OL Duke Clemens (Offered…Hawaii)
2* OL Taylor Miterko (Offered…New Mexico)
2* DE Justin Moore (Committed…Texas)
NR DE Tony Bradford (Offered, visited…Texas)
NR DE Raquan Thompson (Visited…Texas)
3* DT Na’im Rodman (Offered…California)
3* DT Christian Njoku (Visited…Texas)
3* OLB Curley Young (Offered…Texas)
3* OLB Jalen Williams (Offered…Arizona)
NR OLB Kendall Young (Offered…Arkansas)
3* ILB Jacob Wahlberg (Michigan)
3* ILB Chance Cover (Visited…Texas)
NR ILB Maki Carabin (Visited…Texas)
3* CB KJ Trujillo (Offered…California)
3* CB Markel Reed (Offered, visited…Texas)
3* CB Miles Williams (Offered…Texas)
3* CB Stan Livingstone (Visited…California)
3* S Corien Azema (Offered…Texas)
3* S Brandon Joseph (Offered…Texas)
NR S Jared Pedraza (Visited…Texas)
3* ATH Tyler Guidry (Offered…Louisiana)
NR ATH McKel Broussard (California)

(04-08-2018 03:38 PM)Pan95 Wrote:  I see a lot of Colorado kids being offered. It would be great if it were an indication that a MWC invite is on the horizon. Not probable, but fun to speculate.

Nah, Pac 12

(04-09-2018 12:16 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 04:31 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  It looks like we have a real coordinated visit for these players. Nice to see tweets from all of them.

For sure... this one from a mom:
Alandra Speights@SP8SMOM - We have been to ALOT of jr days but this one felt different! The excitment was incredible! @RiceOwlsFB is moving in a positive direction!

FYI, her son is @C_sp8s5 Campbell Speights

Wow -- this is certainly great to hear!

We also offered 2019 WR Kiaeem Green a couple weeks ago, which I missed. Louisiana Tech commit out of New Orleans. He tweeted it as an offer from the University of Rice, which will forever be one of my greatest pet peeves.