2012 NCAA Football Recruiting Thread

[Blade]

Temple stealing some recruits baby!!

http://owlsblog.com/2012/01/31/owls-making-moves-on-the-eve-of-signing-day/

Owls making moves on the eve of Signing Day
01/31/2012John LambLeave a commentGo to comments


As reported by Keith Pompey and OwlScoop.com($), Temple has landed a verbal committment from Archbishop Wood safety Nate Smith.

The 5-11, 176-pound safety was originally set to go to West Virginia but decommitted when defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel left his post to coach with former Mountaineer boss Rich Rodriguez at Arizona.

Temple was originally thought to be the runner-up for his services when he first verballed to West Virginia in October. He also received scholarship offers from the likes of Michigan State and South Carolina.

Smith, a three-star prospect, is considered the 21st best safety in the country according to Rivals. He is the second recruit in the span of a week that Temple has pried away from the Virginias as the Owls landed the services of 6-4, 213-pound Romond Deloatch last weekend after his visit with Virginia Tech didn’t prove to be rewarding.

With the addition of Smith, the talk of “Temple’s greatest recruiting class ever” may have some weight behind it. As it stands right now, the Owls have five three-star recruits set to join the program and a slew of highly-regarded two-star prospects that may have been passed over by the big boys for one reason or another.

Games aren’t won on paper but Steve Addazio, Matt Rhule and the rest of Temple’s coaching staff is certainly infusing the program with a caliber of talent that has never been seen before on North Broad Street.

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The Daily News is reporting that former Penn State quarterback Kevin Newsome is transferring to Temple. The former four star recruit will have two years of eligibility remaining and can play immediately due to the fact that he sat out last season.

The competition between Newsome and the incumbent Chris Coyer should be very, very interesting. Don’t forget about JUCO wildcard Clinton “Juice” Granger, either.

 

[Atlas]

Addazio is gonna do work there... and that kid was a Casteel bum anyways... no huge loss :lesmug:

 

[BrntO4Life]

DGB has informed Texas he won't be going there. Looks like Mizzou won the compromise.

 

[KnightNoles]

Rivals100 commit predictions

DGB: 5/6 Missouri
E. Goldman: 6/6 Florida St :fap:
S. Diggs: 5/6 Florida
D. Hamilton: 5/6 Rutgers
T. Howard: 4/6 Miami - holding out
N. Agholor: 5/6 So Cal holding out
K. Murphy: 5/6 Stanford
A. Shittu: 6/6 Stanford
JHC: 6/6 Georgia Be Close
A. Peat: 6/6 Nebraska
T. Johnson: 6/6 Texas A&M
L. Williams: 4/6 Florida
R. Darby: 6/6 Florida St
A. Young: 5/6 Georgia
J. Caleb: 6/6 Va Tech

 

[Sharkweather]

Hate to break the news to you Knight...

I am told by a couple of sources that JHC will narrow it down to UGA and UF tonight. Michael Langston, from Warchant.com, and I just spoke, and we have both heard the same info. So it looks like UGA and Florida.

Based on the info I have heard in the past week or so, this is good news for UGA concerning JHC because Florida was essentially out of it a week ago.

Stay tuned.

Looks like FSU is out. I still feel pretty confident.

 

[NAHSTE]

Totally forgot NSD was tomorrow. Maybe it's because there are few surprises ahead for LSU, but I'm just not that into it this year. I'll check in tomorrow after the dust has settled but I doubt I'm constantly refreshing my browser to see who signed a LOI like I have in years past.

 

[SHOGUN]

I briefly remembered when I gave an actual shit about recruiting, but from the sounds of things is that Al Golden has been doing work on the recruiting trail.

 

[Herm]

I hope we hang on to otha peters and mcneil more than santos. He's not a huge miss imo for tn

Peters just signed with arkansas.

 

[Herm]

Is Jameis Winston still set to play baseball as well wherever he ends up?

 

[Sharkweather]

Also Joe Davidson just said Shaq went to UW because of Sark and academics, NOT Tosh, but Tosh definitely helped his cause.

Lol, bullshit.

Also,

Darius Hamilton, one of the top defensive ends in the country has committed to Rutgers. Wright stars for Ramsey, (N.J.) Don Bosco Prep. Holding more than 20 offers, Hamilton most strongly considered the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, the Cal Bears, the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida Gators.

Keep swing and a missin' Muschamp.

 

[G-men]

- Darius Hamilton to Rutgers

My facebook is blowing up, and I still couldn't beat you to breaking this.

Pretty much saw this coming though, Leonte and Darius were talking about it in my homeroom today.

 

[Sharkweather]

Matt and his sneaky edit button.

 

[Sportsbuck]

We are a MAJOR player in the Stefon Diggs sweepstakes right now...

 

[Sharkweather]

We are a MAJOR player in the Stefon Diggs sweepstakes right now...

Good, take him. The less for Florida, the better.

 

[KnightNoles]

Is Jameis Winston still set to play baseball as well wherever he ends up?

Most likely he will be playing baseball until he reaches the potential to start for the football team.

Haven't heard any word on this, really comes down to how much he wants to take the MLB money depending where he gets drafted

 

[EmpireWF]

Keith Hamilton's kid sticking with Rutgers. How good is he?

 

[Tengo Juego]

UW had a great day.

 

[Sharkweather]

And there go the flood gates on the UGA board, starting early this year. Everything was going fine all day until just a few hours ago, and now apparently Florida has taken the lead in the Avery Young sweepstakes and Tennessee made a huge late push for Cordarrelle Patterson.

Can't wait for tomorrow to be over.

 

[KNUBB]

Cordarrelle Patterson is going to LSU :shifty:

YAY for NSD

 

[NAHSTE]

Cordorralle will be a member of #Quick6Nation